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Title: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: Amigaz on January 02, 2007, 11:43:19 AM
Link (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1751892303203789887)

Made a geeky video of how much the patch IconBeFast really spreeds up icons
On this vid. I made I'm using icons from "Ken's icons" which without the patch can take up to 2 sec to show an icon when opening a drawer even on the fastest 68k equipeed Amiga
Ken's icons are used throughout in AmiKit.
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: keropi on January 02, 2007, 11:45:58 AM
good job Amigaz, behold the power and know!  :-D  :-D  :-D  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: motorollin on January 02, 2007, 11:49:30 AM
Would this make any difference if PowerIcons is being used?

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moto
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: Amigaz on January 02, 2007, 11:51:40 AM
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motorollin wrote:
Would this make any difference if PowerIcons is being used?

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Oh..forgot to mention..PowerIcons speeds it up also...I use the parameters in the example in the PowerIcons docs along with the "SCROLLSPEEDUP" parameter
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: motorollin on January 02, 2007, 11:54:18 AM
I have found PowerIcons to be faster than NewIcons on my 060. But will installing IconBeFast as well make it any quicker?

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moto
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: Amigaz on January 02, 2007, 11:56:44 AM
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motorollin wrote:
I have found PowerIcons to be faster than NewIcons on my 060. But will installing IconBeFast as well make it any quicker?

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moto


Without doubt
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: AmiKit on January 02, 2007, 01:15:08 PM
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Ken's icons are used throughout in AmiKit.

There's no need to use IconsBeFast patch in AmiKit. The same speed up is provided by AfA_OS.
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: Amigaz on January 02, 2007, 01:25:47 PM
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AmiKit wrote:
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Ken's icons are used throughout in AmiKit.

There's no need to use IconsBeFast patch in AmiKit. The same speed up is provided by AfA_OS.


Yeah it uses the same routines

Have you tried the icons with AfA? the power of a modern PC and JIT in WinUAE should is maybe enough
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: stopthegop on January 02, 2007, 01:33:09 PM
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I have found PowerIcons to be faster than NewIcons on my 060. But will installing IconBeFast as well make it any quicker?


According to iconsbefast docs the performance increase is even better with 24bit icons over 256 color icons.  I have found this to be true.  With the iconsbefast patch I can open even extremely large directories in nearly real time --about the same as my 2ghz PC.  :>  It really flies if you have all of your folders snapshot the way you want them.  I run it right after binddrivers in startup-sequence:

c:minstack 12000
c:iconbefast

   
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: TiredOLife on January 02, 2007, 01:46:47 PM
Have installed it myself recently and noticed a big difference  
using an 060 with both Power and Newicons
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: Craven1200 on January 02, 2007, 02:19:56 PM
thats weird...  how can you put it in the s-s  when its a icon.library patch ?  or are we talking about something different here ?

Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: motorollin on January 02, 2007, 02:29:17 PM
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Craven1200 wrote:
thats weird...  how can you put it in the s-s  when its a icon.library patch ?  or are we talking about something different here ?

Maybe it patches it in memory, rather than permanently patching the file itself.

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moto
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: Craven1200 on January 02, 2007, 02:35:26 PM
maybe..  i have iconbefast installed and i patches the icon.library so there is no need for it to be in the s-s

Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: Amigaz on January 02, 2007, 02:44:22 PM
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motorollin wrote:
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Craven1200 wrote:
thats weird...  how can you put it in the s-s  when its a icon.library patch ?  or are we talking about something different here ?

Maybe it patches it in memory, rather than permanently patching the file itself.

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moto


There's a patch script included which you run before you put IconBeFast in C and alter your ss
The script patches your icon.library in LIBS  :rtfm:
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: motorollin on January 02, 2007, 02:48:58 PM
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AMIGAZ wrote:
There's a patch script included which you run before you put IconBeFast in C and alter your ss
The script patches your icon.library in LIBS

If it patches icon.library, why do you need anything in user-startup? I'm curious to know what that command actually does if the patching of the library has already been done.

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moto
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: stopthegop on January 02, 2007, 02:59:41 PM
I read the docs again and it is kind of ambiguous...  Now I'm thinking mine is not setup correctly..  One thing is that if I comment out the two lines is SS, I notice a decrease in performance.  
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: Amigaz on January 02, 2007, 03:12:00 PM
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motorollin wrote:
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AMIGAZ wrote:
There's a patch script included which you run before you put IconBeFast in C and alter your ss
The script patches your icon.library in LIBS

If it patches icon.library, why do you need anything in user-startup? I'm curious to know what that command actually does if the patching of the library has already been done.

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moto


Havent got a clue, ask the author  :-D
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: Roj on January 02, 2007, 03:15:53 PM
Versions prior to 2.0 were supplied as a stand-alone command which would be copied to C: and could be launched from startup-sequence.
Title: Re: The power of IconBeFast
Post by: AmiKit on January 02, 2007, 04:14:56 PM
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Versions prior to 2.0 were supplied as a stand-alone command which would be copied to C: and could be launched from startup-sequence.

Correct. New version of IconBeFast is NOT a standalone program  anymore. Now it's a patch for icon.library only.