A: Yes. Amiga Forever 7
introduced a new "deployable" media type,
aiming to combine the portability benefits
of disks embedded in the RP9 packages with
the superior performance of
external images. This feature is
recommended for titles that contain large
disk images (e.g. hardfiles, or CD images),
which need to be moved or shared as one RP9
file.
To mark a disk as "deployable", select
Edit in the Media tab and set Location to
Deploy. If the disk was already embedded in
the RP9 package, it will remain embedded. If
the disk was external, it will become
embedded (the original file will be
compressed into the RP9 package, and then
removed from the original location).
When the title is then played back, all disk images marked as
"deployable" are extracted to the default
locations (e.g. Shared/hdf, Shared/cd, etc.
inside Amiga Files),
and then removed from the RP9 package. This
happens at the end of the emulation session,
with an option to either commit or cancel
the deployment.
Compatibility with previous versions of
Amiga Forever (e.g. the 2016 version) is
retained: when new RP9s are run with older
players, "deployable" disks are treated as
embedded disks, i.e. with the full
portability benefits, but with a slight
delay on startup and shutdown if large disk
images need to be extracted and
recompressed, as the "deploy" attribute is
ignored.
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