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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: _caddy_ on September 06, 2004, 01:25:51 PM

Title: What shoul i be running?
Post by: _caddy_ on September 06, 2004, 01:25:51 PM

i have 0s3.0
 i want to know what patches i should be using to get most speed out of my amiga.

also what other utilities, and stuff are useful, and

Title: Re: What shoul i be running?
Post by: PMC on September 06, 2004, 01:40:04 PM

It all depends on your hardware.  Have you expanded your system with accelerators, more RAM etc?

What machine are you using?

If you've got a reasonably poky system then there's a wide array of shareware / PD software you can install to improve the performance and appearence of your desktop.

Title: Re: What shoul i be running?
Post by: _caddy_ on September 06, 2004, 02:27:23 PM

a1200 030\50 / 50 fpu / 32 meg ram / loads of hard drive space, 24 x ide cdrom/ 3com ethernet pcmcia card

also have a 56 k pace modem which might work with the amiga - its external - but there isnt a point in it, because i have 1 meg pipex dsl

Title: Re: What shoul i be running?
Post by: Kronos on September 06, 2004, 02:40:54 PM

And more importantly, what are you planning to do with it ?

Music ? GFX ? Internet ? Playing (older) games ?

Title: Re: What shoul i be running?
Post by: fx on September 06, 2004, 02:51:37 PM

some stuff to speed WB up on an AGA (maybe OCS/ECS also?) machine:

FBlit
FText
BlazeWCP
FScreen (Not sure how much this does on a 030 but on my 040/40 it made a _huge_ difference, makes the machine a little unstable with certain programs though)

also MCP with various patches is good to have.

Title: Re: What shoul i be running?
Post by: whabang on September 06, 2004, 03:03:28 PM

If you're running on a TV, or with a 1084 then MagicTV is a must. It reduces the ammount of on-screen colours to 16 or 32 (don't remember), but it makes it possible to work with an interlaced screen.

One of the many appicon-apps availible is aleays nice...

Title: Re: What should i be running?
Post by: _caddy_ on September 06, 2004, 06:26:20 PM

mostly i was talking about workbench hacks, but i games things would be usefull to, and i hear you can hack lots of games to work off hard drive these days..which is nice  - disk swapping was well annoying, especially on street fighter 2, and flight of the amazon queen, and simon the sorsoror to name a few - this was before i got a hard drive