Guide: How to make OS3.x faster and more efficient. (Updated)

[AmiDude]

Hyperspeed wrote:

Well I'm going to be a bit more critical here...

I would not use ANY of those patches you have listed there AmigaMance.

If you spend your day dragging Workbench windows about and fragmenting your hard disk I suppose they're great but give me the 'Official is Best' philosophy any day.

Some programs like 'Frogger' demand FBlit but then that movie player is the slowest load of crap there is anyway - better get RiVA(+GUI). Things that patch to this level invariably make your system hideously unpredictable and for very little benefit.

I burn CDs and do a lot of printing, multimedia, emulation, surfing and gaming - I need programs to get along with each other. When I do something to my hard disk I would much rather use DiskSalv (as programmed by a Commodore engineer) than use some 3rd party file system and it's wobbly utilities.

I'd say getting a decent hardware accelerator or graphics card is better than trying to dress mutton as lamb (and making the system untrustworthy at the same time).

If you don't have a GFX card then your best speedup will be by giving the ChipRAM a break. Add more FastMem, keep screen colours 6-bit or below, screenmodes to 15Khz NTSC or therabouts and scale down your icons using Iconian (stripping away any NewIcons bumf in the tooltypes).

Unless you're running a huge database or streaming video then I'm not sure dumping Fast File System is worth the hassle and risk either - particularly if you have a SCSI card with a fast hard disk or Flash drive.

@Hyperspeed

You're right. I agree with you dude! :-D

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[AmiDude]

@adz wrote:

Quote:

If you are using a 68000 or a 68020 with no fast-ram, please die. For people who think that "Official = better" or can't edit a startup-sequence, please use windoze or something. It suits you better.

FYI, this is the point at which I stopped reading.

@adz
You're right also. I think AmigaMance is a little snobbish here...
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[AmiDude]

AmigaMance wrote:

Well, i don't have much to say about this. Just don't use FFS and you will be fine. Nobody should use it.

I've used FFS for years and years on several systems,
and never had any problems with it...
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[AmiDude]

@AmigaMance and anyone else who's in doubt:

Like stated before: If you wanna make OS3.x faster and
more efficient, use a more powerfull accelerator card and/or GFX-card and/or more Fast RAM. That should do
the trick really efficient.

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[AmiDude]

AmigaMance wrote:

I don't know, you seem to be quite obsessed with me or something.

I'm really not obsessed with you dude...Unless you have big boobs and a nice ass...  :lol:
But maybe you're obsessed with patches. Don't get
me wrong, I'm using some patches too (FragCure,
IconBeFast a.o.). Just please don't degrade other
Amiga users because they have other Amiga configurations.


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[AmiDude]

I've never heard anyone say their Amiga was too fast.

This makes no sense at all. I didn't claim that.
But adding a accelerator, GFX card or FastRam
should speed up things more than some crappy patches.

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[AmiDude]

NO BLEEP! I bet nobody knew that! I think i will add it to my sig.

Don't be so upset dude...no need for that.
 :-D