maxc1553@ucselx.sdsu.edu (InnerTangent - human1) (04/25/91)
Hi there, You! I know you know that I know you have a VERY SPECIAL costomized Startup-Sequence that you modify daily (or weekly) whenever you come across a net utility or patch (*sign*). Some of them detach and remain as a task, and others just change the OS codes to make it work better for you. I have in my Startup-Sequence the following programs: faccii, wtfpatch, makeVportpatch, newpop, clockDJ, Xsize, NoCare, Gomf, speedup, noclick, forfacc, mymenu, popupmenu, 3dlook, and I think that's all I can recall. All those utilities above in addition to some of the more relevant AmigaDos commands. Among my favorites, FaccII caches floppy reads into fast memory. similar to addbuffer, it helps your floppy disk accessing when the same data is read more then once. (huh?) ForFacc flushes this cache/buffer and give you back your memory when all floppy drives are empty. WTFpatch patches the intuition bug that lock-up your system when you attempt a windowtofront() call when an icon is selected/active. MakeVPortPatch patches the intution bug that sometimes locks up your system when you have a mixature of interlaced and non-interlaced screens. NewPop does screen blanking (with a changing-color-Q*X pattern) and provide hot-keys for invoking a newCLI. The screen blank can be switched on or prevented by placing your pointer in a designated corner of screen. XSize let you size your window the XWINDOWs style. NoCare speeds up your WorkBench window displays. Gomf tries to fix a guru-meditation when it occurs. Gomf is commercial. Speedup changes the rate your floppydrive reads the floppy. It can be used to speedup your floppy read/write by 2 times. THERE! I have revealed my centries collection of Amiga-inits. YOUR TURN!! :-) -- [unify] ************************************************************************* * All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. + *-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) (04/28/91)
In article <1991Apr24.192849.12855@ucselx.sdsu.edu> maxc1553@ucselx.sdsu.edu (InnerTangent - human1) writes: > >FaccII caches floppy reads into fast memory. similar to addbuffer, it helps > your floppy disk accessing when the same data is read more then once. > (huh?) ForFacc flushes this cache/buffer and give you back your > memory when all floppy drives are empty. FaccII, I should point out, is commercial. >NewPop does screen blanking (with a changing-color-Q*X pattern) and provide > hot-keys for invoking a newCLI. The screen blank can be switched on > or prevented by placing your pointer in a designated corner of screen. I use QMouse, which is a combination screen-blanker, mouse-accelerator, hotkey utility, and some other things like window-to-front with a double click and window-to-back with a left-right click. The screen blanker is just that, a BLANKER, but that's what I want. >Gomf tries to fix a guru-meditation when it occurs. Gomf is commercial. I think GOMF 1.0 was PD or shareware, but I'm not sure. >Speedup changes the rate your floppydrive reads the floppy. It can be used to > speedup your floppy read/write by 2 times. HUH? TWO TIMES? What exactly does it do? -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "You know I never knew Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange..." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)
maxc1553@ucselx.sdsu.edu (InnerTangent - human1) (04/30/91)
jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes: >>Speedup changes the rate your floppydrive reads the floppy. It can be used to >> speedup your floppy read/write by 2 times. >HUH? TWO TIMES? What exactly does it do? Sure. In the doc of SpeedUp, it points out that commodore's trackdisk.device (or something) has a un-documented place where you store the floppy drive step-rate. (again the docs) StepRate is the time for the floppy drive read/write head to move from one sector to another..(if I re- membered correctly). Because commodore use a variaties of floppy drives for their A500 and A2000, they slowed down the read so that the flaky drives will work although the better drive mechnisms could actually read/write faster without problem. (sucks, huh?) Anyway, this little program will let you change the stepRate, depends on the floppy drive you own. trial and error will eventually let you push your floppy to the edge, but not over the edge. I'll try to find the doc for it. re-archive it, and upload it to abcfd20 /incoming/amiga. -- [unify] ************************************************************************* * All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. + *-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) (05/02/91)
In article <1991Apr29.201147.15823@ucselx.sdsu.edu> maxc1553@ucselx.sdsu.edu (InnerTangent - human1) writes: >jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes: > >>>Speedup changes the rate your floppydrive reads the floppy. It can be used to >>> speedup your floppy read/write by 2 times. > >>HUH? TWO TIMES? What exactly does it do? > > Sure. In the doc of SpeedUp, it points out that commodore's >trackdisk.device (or something) has a un-documented place where you store >the floppy drive step-rate. (again the docs) StepRate is the time for the >floppy drive read/write head to move from one sector to another..(if I re- >membered correctly). Because commodore use a variaties of floppy drives >for their A500 and A2000, they slowed down the read so that the flaky drives >will work although the better drive mechnisms could actually read/write >faster without problem. (sucks, huh?) Oh, I see... I have a program called DFDelay which lets you change the step delay and the settle delay. It sounds like it's doing exactly what Speedup is doing. But I think your "2 times" figure is WAY off... Let's say you halve the step delay (I don't think it's safe to even halve it though.) You have NOT doubled the speed of the drive. As a matter of fact, I doubt you've made any noticeable difference at all. I'm thinking about removing DFDelay from my Startup-Sequence so as to save time loading. I really don't know why it even exists, because the times involved are so tiny. If somehow Speedup is changing something other than that, let me know. -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "You know I never knew Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange..." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)