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Title: Speeding up Shapeshifter loading
Post by: desrat01 on September 10, 2021, 04:10:12 AM

Question:how does one speed up the loading process on Shapeshifter.Everything works fine..just need to speed it up..taking an awful long time.

Title: Re: Speeding up Shapeshifter loading
Post by: AndyFC on September 10, 2021, 07:27:42 AM

Hi and welcome to the forums.

A bit more info will be useful. What is your Amiga config for a start (let's avoid 'buy a faster Amiga' type comments).

Also, is it starting ShapeShifter or booting into MacOS that you feel is taking a long time?

Finally, what is 'a long time' to you and what are you comparing against?

Title: Re: Speeding up Shapeshifter loading
Post by: Matt_H on September 11, 2021, 03:39:32 PM

Shapeshifter hardfiles are horrendously slow. If you have to use them, put them on a fast partition (I.e., SFS or PFS) with lots of buffers. If you can use a dedicated partition for your Mac hard drive, that will be much faster.