HstWB Installer
for Classic Amiga

16^st January 2022

HstWB Installer v1.6.3 has been released and comes with following updates and fixes:

• HstWB Installer for Raspberry Pi, supports Raspberry Pi OS Lite. See HstWB Installer for Raspberry Pi GitHub Wiki for installation.
• Add UAE4ARM image with DH0 and DH1 as directories.
• Fix launcher not starting and fix launcher topaz font.
• Fix Amiga OS 3.2.1 prefs.
• Fix Amiga OS detection for package installation.
• Fix rom key error when Amiga OS directory is not defined.

4^st January 2022

HstWB Installer v1.6.2 has been released and comes with following updates and fixes:

• Update install mode and self install images to detect amiga os files in sub-directories.
• Update self install amiga os directory readme files.
• Fix setup script run first time creating default settings.
• Fix setup and run scripts not installing selected amiga os set for install mode.
• Fix install amiga os 3.2.1 for install mode.

1^st January 2022

HstWB Installer v1.6.1 has been released and comes with following updates and fixes:

• Added support for Amiga OS 3.2.1.
• Optimized Amiga OS detection, which is now much faster as MD5 checksums are now only calculated once per file.
• Updated WHDLoad user package to WHDLoad v18.7.
• Updated self install and hstwb_image_setup scripts to scan Amiga OS sub-directories.
• Fixed Amiga OS 3.9 cd-rom detection.
• Fixed Directory Opus user package to enable browsing .lha, .lzx and .zip files (FORCEOPENXAD and FORCEOPENXFD tooltype added). Works only with Directory Opus v4.17pre21!
• Fixed archivers and unarchivers user package to only install selected CPU version.

23^th December 2021

HstWB Installer v1.6.0 has been released and comes with a lot of updates and fixes:

• Amiga OS installation menus for self install are reorganized to make it more simple with less options to select from and only valid Amiga OS are listed.
• For most menus during installation, the important options have been moved to the top like "Start package installation", "Install Amiga OS" etc.
• Installation of Amiga OS 3.9, 3.2, 3.1.4 and 3.1 now include MMULib by default with an auto-updating feature, that will rename 680x0 library files (enable/disable) during startup to match CPU detected. The image can them be used with different CPU without it complaining about 68030/68040/68060 library present or not present.
• Kickstart rom detection now calculates MD5 checksum from decrypted rom files using rom.key file. This means encrypted roms results in same MD5 checksum as raw unencrypted Kickstart rom files. All is handled in memory and no decrypted roms are written back to disk. This should support any future changes Cloanto may include in Amiga Forever releases.
• EAB WHDLoad menu packages:
  • EAB WHDLoad menu demos packages for RetroPlay WHDLoad's updated with new/changed entries as of December 4th.
  • EAB WHDLoad menu games packages for RetroPlay WHDLoad's updated with new/changed entries as of December 4th.
  • EAB WHDLoad menu magazines packages for RetroPlay WHDLoad's updated with new/changed entries as of December 4th.
  • AGS2 and iGame updated to latest version for all EAB WHDLoad menu packages.
• BetterWB, ClassicWB and HstWB packages have been updated to patch existing startup sequence and user startup instead of overwriting them. This should give best compatibility with existing and future Amiga OS versions and has greatly improved compatibility with installation of eg. Picasso96 with ClassicWB.
• User packages included to install common applications and libraries making it possible to make your own clean installation with just what you need or install something you need updated/installed in an existing image (your already running image, so you don't have to create a new one):
  • Amiga Boot Selector
  • Amiga Test Kit v1.18
  • Archivers and unarchivers
  • CompactFlash and FAT95
  • DirOpus v4.12-4.17pre21
  • FastFileSystem v45.16
  • Full Palette v40.22
  • IconLib v46.4.555
  • iGame v1.6a
  • iGame v2.0
  • Kickstart roms
  • KingCON v1.3
  • Magic Menu v2.30-2.35
  • MMU Libs v47.1
  • MUI v3.8
  • MUI v3.8 iGame dependencies
  • Scsi.device v43.45
  • SysInfo v4.4
  • WBDock v2.560
  • WHDLoad Packs (EAB RetroPlay and other WHDLoad Packs)
  • WHDLoad v18.6
• Updated BetterWB to v4.3.
• Added image templates with 1GB and 2GB DH0: Workbench partition for better support with installation of 32SE by 8080, see https://8080.itch.io/32se-add-on-for-amigaos-32. 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 120GB self install images are based on these.
• Fixed Amiga OS 3.2 icon information not working due to Amiga OS 3.2 Classes adf not installed and packages overwriting Amiga OS files.
• Fixed hstwb_image_setup scripts creating invalid FS-UAE configuration files.
• Lots of bugs fixed in HstWB Installer and self install images together with a lot of testing.

Next release will focus on Amiga OS 3.2.1 support, Raspberry Pi support and maybe more user packages by request.

Amiga OS 3.2 installations can be updated to 3.2.1 by installing Update3.2.1.adf included in Update3.2.1.lha from Hyperion Entertainment.

16^th August 2021

HstWB Installer v1.5.1 has been released with fixed for KCON software failure and unknown command execute error when running HstWB Installer and self install images with Kickstart rom 3.2 and 3.1.4. All Classic packages updated and patched to work with Amiga OS 3.2. EAB WHDLoad Demos and Games packages are still scheduled to be updated in next release to have screenshots for latest WHDLoads.

12^th August 2021

HstWB Installer v1.5.0 has been released with support for Amiga OS 3.2. BestWB has been updated to v1.3 and patched to work with Amiga OS 3.2. EAB WHDLoad Demos and Games packages will be updated in next release to have screenshots for latest WHDLoads. ClassicWB packages will also be examined and patched work with Amiga OS 3.2 later and might be part of next release.

21^th October 2019

HstWB Installer v1.4.2 has been released with fixes for ClassicWB packages. Installing ClassicWB FULL, ADV, ADVSP or P96 with Amiga OS 3.1.4 or 3.1.4.1 causes NewIcons to be shown distorted or garbled. This occurs when Scalos is used, so for these ClassicWB packages Scalos is disabled when installed with Amiga OS 3.1.4 or 3.1.4.1. To get some of the functionality Scalos offers, Magic Menu and Tools Daemon have been added for right menus together with Full Palette for more icon colors. ClassicWB OS39 package has also been updated with patches for Amiga OS 3.1.4 and 3.1.4.1 to fix icons using VNC by replacing them with CON.

26^th August 2019

HstWB Installer v1.4.1 has been released with a lot of fixes. Kickstart rom 3.1.4 can now only be used to install Amiga OS 3.1.4 and Kickstart rom 3.1 can be used to install Amiga OS 3.9, 3.1.4 and 3.1. This is done for both install mode and self install images, which will indicate if detected Kickstart rom can't be used to install selected Amiga OS. HstWB Image Setup scripts have been updated with better patch only mode and it's output has also been reduced. Package installation has been fixed with better detection of Amiga OS version.

13^th August 2019

HstWB Installer v1.4.0 has been released with full support for ClassicWB packages together with Amiga OS 3.1.4. Support for Amiga OS 3.1.4.1 Update has also been added together with the newly released FS-UAE v3.0.0 for HstWB Installer running install mode. A lot of small fixes has been added to HstWB Installer, HstWB Mini, EAB WHDLoad Demos and Games packages.

27^th June 2019

HstWB Installer v1.3.0 has been released and together with full support for Amiga OS 3.1.4, it comes with a new functionality to prevent packages with same content from being installed as they will overwrite each other and might result in an unstable installation. Eg. if BetterWB package is set to install, clicking on ClassicWB package will skip BetterWB package.

Free space checks has been added to build install entries allowing users to select next install directory, when there's not enough free space left on install directory during installation of WHDLoad demos and games. This is primarily for images with <2GB partitions where WHDLoad demos and games needs to be installed over multiple partitions.

128GB and UAE4ALL images has been added.

4^th April 2019

HstWB Installer v1.3.0-BETA2 has been released with full support for Amiga OS 3.1.4. BestWB package has been updated to include BestWB v1.1 update. EAB WHDLoad Menu packages has been updated with screenshots and details to support Retroplay's WHDLoad packs downloaded 26^th February 2019.

19^th January 2019

HstWB Installer v1.3.0-BETA1 has been released with partial support for Amiga OS 3.1.4. Self install images can detect and install Amiga OS 3.1.4, but HstWB Installer setup, run and install mode doesn't currently support Amiga OS 3.1.4. New BestWB package is included for Amiga OS 3.1.4. Most of Amiga OS installation has been rewritten. Amiga OS and Kickstart installation menus has been added to self install for better control of installation process.

6^th November 2018

HstWB Installer v1.2.0 has been released with full support for Amiga OS 3.9.