### Patcher * Patching Programs

The Patcher is a universal tool to modify files or disks. It was the prefered tool for WHDLoad installations to create files or disk images from original disks with a very own disk format in earlier releases of the WHDLoad package. The prefered tool for this task is RawDIC now. To learn more about the Patcher you should read its documentation, which can also be found in the patcher archive provided with `DEV` package of WHDload.

Patcher needs `ruby.8` font! You can find this font on your original Workbench disks. If the font is not available the Patcher simply will not start.

Features:

- easy choice of source drive
- diskroutine cannot fail due too fast cpu
- works on escom-amigas with diskdrive-hardware'feature'
- multitasks while reading (it is even possible to install 2 games at the same time if you own 2 disk drives)
- can display the track while reading (useful for bug reports) and imaging problems (read error, disk full etc)
- can be debugged with a normal debugger

Disadvantages:

- initial ~6-8 h needed to get into it as programmer
- maybe bigger memory usage of ~1 MB, depending on the disk image (but for people with fewer than 2 MB RAM hdinstalls arent that useful either)