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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Coolit on January 16, 2006, 08:44:14 PM

Title: Blizkick
Post by: Coolit on January 16, 2006, 08:44:14 PM

Ive just setup blizkick for the first time today and all I can say is Wooooo! it really does give an impressive speed boost, but its left me with a question :-)

I set it up in stages, adding modules and cmds one at a time so I could tell if there was a problem with anything added to SS, the final thing I did was add the LOCALFAST command. I know what this does, it loads exec.library to fastmem and enables RAD-disks, but the speed boost from this alone is amazing, Ive allways thought Aweb was quite slow but after adding this it seems like a new program, my question is why does this command have such an effect on performance?

Title: Re: Blizkick
Post by: platon42 on January 16, 2006, 08:58:19 PM

If you're using OS 3.9 BoingBag 2, on some machines SetPatch assumes your fast ram is "volatile" (not of type MEMF_KICK) on reset, hence it will avoid this kind of ram to load the ROM updates into. Normally this means the updates go into chipram, which is fatal for exec.library for example, which will *crawl* there.

SetPatch AVOIDMEMFKICKFORPATCHES will avoid this -- as will BlizKick, if you tell it to load the ROM Update, because it knows the fastram will stay.

Anyway, BlizKick is one of the most useful programs since sliced bread and will allow you to patch a lot of bugs in the kickrom or optimize the speed, which SetPatch doesn't care about.

Thanks, Piru ;)

Title: Re: Blizkick
Post by: Coolit on January 16, 2006, 09:10:54 PM

Thanks for that, and thanks Piru :-)

Ive avoided installing it as I didnt think it could improve the speed by that much, oh boy was I wrong, and so glad I was ;-)