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Title: Great little program
Post by: stopthegop on April 16, 2007, 01:16:06 PM

Hello
For those who don't know, I thought I'd mention what a fantastic program wballocfast is.  It really works at keeping things out of chip memory.  The only incompatibility I've found with it is it won't work with Dopus.  Otherwise it works great as you can see in this example (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1943=58191&com_rootid=57194&com_mode=flat&com_order=0#comment58191).

Title: Re: Great little program
Post by: motorollin on April 16, 2007, 01:31:58 PM

Is this patch necessary in OS3.9, which has settings in Workbench prefs to allocate icons etc to fast instead of chip?

--
moto

Title: Re: Great little program
Post by: stopthegop on April 16, 2007, 02:24:44 PM

I think that only maps icons into fast memory, but other apps are still free to use chip memory.  wballocfast re-routes everything to fastram.  Almost everything...  :)  

Title: Re: Great little program
Post by: on April 16, 2007, 02:32:44 PM

I guess that's a great thing to use when you have a graphics card.

There's really no reason other than sound and parallel/serial port to use the chip ram when you have a graphics card.

Title: Re: Great little program
Post by: swift240 on April 16, 2007, 08:22:43 PM

Where about is WBAllocfast put in the S:Startup-Sequence ?

I put mine in the C: draw and just before LoadWB I done this,

C:WBAllocfast
LoadWB

Doing it that way my Chip ram is still the same and so is my Fastram like it isnt working.

TIA,

Mike.

Title: Re: Great little program
Post by: stopthegop on April 17, 2007, 02:05:44 AM

C:wballocfast >NIL:

Just before setpatch..

Title: Re: Great little program
Post by: AmigaMance on April 17, 2007, 03:03:24 AM

 It is not advisable to install patches before setpatch. This is especially true if you have a 040/060 CPU. And what's the point anyway? Have you tried to install it after it to see if there is a benefit at all?
 Furthermore, if you have install patches like PoolMem or MemOptimizer, it is not a good idea to install WbAllocFast before them. (afaik)

Title: Re: Great little program
Post by: stopthegop on April 17, 2007, 03:22:23 AM

I've had mine like that for a while now and its not caused any problems for me.  

Title: Re: Great little program
Post by: TheMagicM on April 17, 2007, 04:44:13 AM

I thought you were going to talk about SearchStar 0.70b and the new printf feature that was added.   :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: Re: Great little program
Post by: rkauer on April 17, 2007, 08:15:04 AM

Talking about cool little programs, what about MCP?

It's free for 68k users, like me.

And do a lot of good job in the system.

Title: Re: Great little program
Post by: motrucker on April 19, 2007, 12:28:27 AM

From the docs;
"WBAllocFast V1.5
================
This tool redirects all Chipmem-Allocs from 136 Bytes (Mousepointer)
or greater to Fastmem. It redirects more allocs than "WBCtrl IMT=FAST".
This way nearly all Chipmem stays free.

Usage:
in Startup-Sequence before "IPrefs"
WBAllocFast >NIL:"

Since the programmer suggests using it this way, who am I to argue? I have been running the program this way, and have had no problems at all.