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Latest stable: v1.4.2 (2019-10-21 08:35 CET)

HstWB Installer with packages

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HstWB package and user package installation

Prebuild self install images for Amiga's, WinUAE and FS-UAE emulators supporting RDB

Prebuild self install images for Amiberry, UAE4ARM, UAE4ALL, UAE4ALL2 emulators that doesn't support RDB

Prebuild self install images for Raspberry Pi

Previous stable: v1.4.1 (2019-08-26 14:45 CET)

HstWB Installer with packages

HstWB Installer without packages

HstWB package and user package installation

Prebuild self install images for Amiga's, WinUAE and FS-UAE emulators supporting RDB

Prebuild self install images for Amiberry, UAE4ARM, UAE4ALL, UAE4ALL2 emulators that doesn't support RDB

Prebuild self install images for Raspberry Pi

Currently not available.

Previous stable: v1.4.0 (2019-08-13 10:16 CET)

HstWB Installer with packages

HstWB Installer without packages

HstWB package and user package installation

Prebuild self install images for Amiga's, WinUAE and FS-UAE emulators supporting RDB

Prebuild self install images for Amiberry, UAE4ARM, UAE4ALL, UAE4ALL2 emulators that doesn't support RDB

Prebuild self install images for Raspberry Pi

Currently not available.

Previous stable: v1.3.0 (2019-06-27 22:30 CET)

HstWB Installer with packages

HstWB Installer without packages

HstWB package and user package installation

Prebuild self install images for Amiga's, WinUAE and FS-UAE emulators supporting RDB

Prebuild self install images for Amiberry, UAE4ARM, UAE4ALL, UAE4ALL2 emulators that doesn't support RDB

Prebuild self install images for Raspberry Pi

Currently not available.

Previous beta: v1.3.0-BETA2 (2019-04-04 14:45 CET)

HstWB Installer with packages

HstWB Installer without packages

Prebuild self install images

Previous beta: v1.3.0-BETA1 (2019-01-19 01:53 CET)

HstWB Installer

Prebuild self install images

Previous stable: v1.2.0 (2018-11-06 20:18 CET)

HstWB Installer

HstWB package and user package installation

Prebuild self install images

Raspberry Pi

Previous beta: v1.2.0-BETA6 (2018-08-06 22:24 CET)

HstWB Installer

Prebuild self install images

Raspberry Pi

Change log

v1.4.1 (2019-08-26 14:45 CET)

Changes:

Fixed hstwb image setup patch only, reduced output and updated readme's.

Fixed self install amiga os menu selecting default amiga os and files.

Added supported amiga os versions check for packages.

Updated run script to build all amiga os versions menus for package installation. This fixes detect amiga os issues not showing correct filtering as it's menu didn't exist.

Updated install amiga os to write installed version in prefs.

Improved amiga os detection with added version.library check.

Added classic gaae to hstwb repositories json for updating packages.

Updated self install amiga os installation menu to prevent amiga os 3.9 and 3.1 from being installed when using kickstart 3.1.4 due to issues mixing amiga os and kickstart.

Updated detect amiga os to not allow mixed kickstart 3.1.4 and amiga os 3.1.

Updated run and setup scripts to ensure kickstart 3.1.4 can only be used to install amiga os 3.1.4.

Improved amiga os and kickstart installation n/a options with descriptions.

Updated hstwb packages json for updating packages.

HstWB Installer with all packages is available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

New self install images are available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

v1.4.0 (2019-08-13 10:16 CET)

Changes:

Replaced mount adf with virtual floppy and copy adf to solve object in use errors.

Fixed install kickstart rom for install mode.

Update package filtering and install packages when changing amiga os dir using install mode.

Added Amiga OS 3.1.4.1 installation from adf.

Added patch Amiga OS 3.1.4.1 script to enable switching between Kickstart 3.1 and Kickstart 3.1.4.

Added Amiga OS 3.1.4.1 update to self install Amiga OS installation menu.

Updated run script to copy disk.info to dh1: after package installation is complete.

Added help option to glow icons.

Added copy alias to use buffer 10 for copy operations.

Updated run script to set Kickstart rom for use configuration files.

Corrected names for Amiga OS entries.

Fixed install glow icons for Amiga OS 3.1.4 with restore option.

Added urls as part of hstwb image setup.

Added additional Amiga OS 3.1.4 adf md5 checksums.

Added FS-UAE 3.0.0 support and remove is read only from Kickstart rom and Amiga OS adf files. This is mostly for HstWB Installer running install mode.

Updated hstwb image setup script to write warnings instead of errors and exit and added detect self install image.

Updated FS-UAE to write logs in image subdir.

HstWB Installer with all packages is available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

New self install images are available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

v1.3.0 (2019-06-27 22:30 CET)

Changes:

Added content id's to packages to prevent packages with same content being installed. When selecting packages to install, setup script and self install images will skip other packages with same content id's. Eg. if BetterWB package is set to install, clicking on ClassicWB package will skip BetterWB package.

Package installation menu has been updated with legends that indicate package dependencies and identical content. Legend (!) indicates package dependencies and legend (=) indicates identical content. A legends menu option has been added to show a description of the legends present for packages.

Added free space checks to build install entries allowing users to select next install directory, when there's not enough free space left on install directory. This is primarily for images with <2GB partitions where WHDLoad's needs to be installed over multiple partitions.

Added hstwb image setup patch only scripts.

Added 128GB image.

Added UAE4ALL image. This is primarily for emulators that doesn't support RDB hdf images like UAE4ALL on a PSP or PS Vita. Note UAE4ALL image doesn't work with FS-UAE due to surfaces needs to be set to 2 for DH1, DH2, DH3 and DH4.

Fixed validate settings for build package installation.

Fixed hstwb image setup patch filesystem paths using non RDB hdf files.

Fixed WinUAE A500 configuration changed to ECS chipset for AGS2 to work properly using WinUAE emulator.

Skipped msi installer for this release as it needs to be changed into a per user installation.

HstWB Installer with all packages is available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

New self install images are available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

v1.3.0-BETA2 (2019-04-04 14:45 CET)

Changes:

Added select package filtering to filter packages to the selected Amiga OS being installed helping users to install packages for the Amiga OS versions a package support. All packages that only work for specific Amiga OS versions has been updated with Amiga OS versions.

Reorganised HstWB Installer setup menus and options for a more intuitive workflow. Settings are now updated based on the selected installer mode, so only settings used for a given installer mode are shown.

Added support for coloured menu options in HstWB Installer setup.

Merged Configure Workbench and Configure Amiga OS 3.9 to Configure Amiga OS for HstWB Installer setup.

Updated HstWB Installer setup to support Amiga OS 3.1.4.

Updated self install to mount Amiga OS 3.9 iso and load Amiga OS system files from it, if Amiga OS 3.9 iso is present in "AmigaOS" directory.

Added update packages to HstWB Installer setup for downloading new versions of packages from package urls. This is reduce the size of HstWB Installer releases and at the same time make it possible to update packages without having to download a new version of HstWB Installer with updated packages. First time HstWB Installer setup is started, it will ask if packages should be updated.

Updated HstWB Installer run script build WinUAE and FS-UAE configuration files for both A500 and A1200. HstWB Installer can now be run with A500 and A1200 Kickstart roms and additional Kickstart roms will be added in the future to also support A3000, A4000D and A4000T.

Updated hstwb image setup scripts to detect and update Kickstart roms for A500 and A1200 WinUAE and FS-UAE configuration files.

Updated hstwb image setup scripts to install HstWB Installer theme for FS-UAE.

Fixed load "Libs:Workbench.library" and "Libs:Icon.library" requesters shown when running self install with Amiga OS 3.1.4 adf files.

Fixed [$AmigaOsHarddriveIndex] not being replaced in FS-UAE configuration files, when running hstwb image setup scripts.

Added support for Amiga Forever 8 Kickstart roms as they have changed compared to previous Amiga Forever versions.

HstWB Installer with all packages is available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

New self install images are available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

v1.3.0-BETA1 (2019-01-19 01:53 CET)

Changes:

Added automated installation of Amiga OS 3.1.4.

Install mode disabled as HstWB Installer Setup is not updated with Amiga OS 3.1.4 support yet. Please build self install images for automated installation of Amiga OS 3.1.4.

Added Amiga OS installation menu for better control of Amiga OS 3.9, 3.1.4 and 3.1 installation.

Added Kickstart installation menu for better control of Kickstart rom installation.

Rewritten most of Amiga OS installation.

Updated AmigaDOS shells to use KingCON for self install images.

New self install images are available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

v1.2.0 (2018-11-06 20:18 CET)

Changes:

Fixed install kickstart script detecting Cloanto Amiga Forever rom key file.

Fixed packages not being sorted by priority and name.

Updated and formatted PFS3 images with PFS3AIO 3.1.

Updated readme and moved most of it to https://github.com/henrikstengaard/hstwb-installer/wiki.

New self install images are available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

v1.2.0-BETA6 (2018-08-06 22:24 CET)

Changes:

Fixed hstwb image setup script patching self install directories correctly.

emoved extra igame screenshots from EAB WHDLoad Games Menu packages that was incorrectly placed.

New self install images are available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

v1.2.0-BETA5 (2018-07-22 09:04 CET)

Changes:

Refactored build eab whdload install to build install entries.

Updated build install entries to build menus for selecting install sets: all, best version and best version for lowmem.

Updated install scripts to load archive commands resident.

Changed Chips UAE4ARM to use 68020 CPU.

Added new hstwb image setup Powershell and Python scripts to replace install uae config scripts for better cross platform support, detect and install from Amiga Forever installed or iso mounted and validate files detected.

Added build packages Powershell script to build all packages for HstWB Installer.

Updated Amibian support files.

New self install images are available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

v1.2.0-BETA4 (2018-07-21 21:37 CET)

Changes:

Added new build eab whdload install Powershell and Python scripts to build user packages install menus that extracts and installs lha and lzx archives from Retroplay EAB WHDLoad Packs.

Replaced md5sum with own md5 for uae4arm and amiberry jit compatibility and added stack set to 16KB for generic install script.

Replaced lha 2.15 with lha 2.2 for uae4arm and amiberry jit compatibility.

Updated run script to create workbench, kickstart, os39 and userpackages directories for build self install mode.

New self install images are available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

v1.2.0-BETA3 (2018-04-07 21:57 CET)

Changes:

Re-created all images from scratch using Amiga OS 3.9 with PFS3AIO v3.0 from Toni Wilen and left 5 cylinders unused at end of last partition.

Added failat 21 to fix startup sequences using version to check scsi.device.

Added transparency to HstWB Installer FS-UAE theme showing harddrive, cdrom and floppy icons for read and write activity.

Changed images to use new hstwb-image.json file format.

Changed packages to use new hstwb-package.json file format.

Added support files for Amibian to easily expand filesystem and automate installation of Kickstart rom and HstWB Installer on Amibian images.

Added rdbinfo Powershell and Python scripts to read RDB from image files and mounted devices.

Renamed make installer to build release and update it to build both msi installer and portable release.

Self install images are available at https://hstwb.firstrealize.com.

v1.2.0-BETA2 (2018-02-01 08:20 CET)

Changes:

Updated setup and run scripts to show warnings when images uses harddrives larger than 4GB. In some situations PFS3AIO v2.3 (used for all images) can become corrupt and result in requester popups "Wrong block id". This is currently being investigated with new experimental versions of PFS3AIO from Toni Wilen.

Replaced firstline with sed script for 68000 compatibility.

Replaced reqlist with requestline for 68000 compatibility.

Changed package installation and user package installation menu's options for better layout using requestlist.

Updated hstwb-installer setup, run scripts and self install mode to autodetect Cloanto Amiga Forever 7 Workbench adf and Kickstart rom files.

Updated self install images to remove packages installation files after they are installed.

Added back option to change installer mode menu.

Added a few new images installed and partitioned with dostype PDS3.

v1.2.0-BETA1 (2017-12-31 10:46 CET)

Changes:

Added installation of Amiga OS 3.9 from CD0: and iso using filedisk.device and amicdfs.

Added installation of Boing Bag 1 & 2.

Fixed sorting packages by dependencies when only one package is selected.

Optimized Workbench, Amiga OS, Kickstart, packages AmigaDOS scripts.

Added user package installation.

Updated self install to autodetect workbench 3.1 adf from WORKBENCHDIR and extract system files to automate self install and avoid inserting workbench 3.1 disk.

Added launch scripts to handle when hstwb installer is being used for the first time.

Updated setup and run script to support both FS-UAE and WinUAE emulators, which are autodetect and configure emulator menu using setup script.

Added build eab whdload pack install script to extract and install demo and game lha and zip files.

v1.1.0 (2017-06-12 21:30 CET)

Changes:

Updated readme for packages and HstWB Installer.

Added FAQ to HstWB Installer and HstWB Package.

Added 32GB and 64GB HDF images. Existing image template sizes have been adjusted and should fit into any brand CF/SD card.

Removed BETA2 from HstWB Installer version.

Updated HstWB Installer tutorial screenshots to reflect v1.1.0 and latest changes.

Added natural sort for Create Image Directory From Image Template menu.

Added better step descriptions for building package installation tutorial.

Fixed copying workbench or kickstart rom files containing exclamation mark characters.

Removed mod files from EAB Games menu packages that sounded strange being played with easymod.

v1.1.0-BETA2 (2017-05-31 15:17 CET)

Changes:

Fixed errors occurring when running self-install in emulator or real Amiga not having 4 floppy devices attached. Thanks to Tomse for notifying me.

Updated install Workbench script to work with non-Cloanto Workbench adf files.

Updated HstWB package default settings: Load scsi.device 43.45, PeterK icon.library and start Amiga Boot Selector.

Updated ClassicWB packages with installation of scsi.device 43.45.

Completed HstWB Installer readme tutorials.

v1.1.0-BETA1 (2017-05-23 11:33 CET)

Changes: