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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: dougal on January 19, 2012, 08:24:35 PM

Title: Blizkick problems
Post by: dougal on January 19, 2012, 08:24:35 PM

I dont get how to use Blizkick. I do not want to change my rom as i am happy with the kickstart 3.1 rom but i want to make my A1200 (blizzard 1260) faster.

I tried using localfast but it wont work

If in startup-sequence i add the following:

c:blizkick localfast

or

c:blizkick speedrom localfast or c:blizkick module localfast

I get a couldnt load kickstart failure.

If i do

c:blizkick * localfast it says something about the file being too large then cant load module and i think error 10.

whats going on?

Is there any way to get it working to speed things up?

Title: Re: Blizkick problems
Post by: doctorq on January 19, 2012, 08:53:42 PM

Have you considered reading the docs??? As described therein you have to add extresbuf to the command line to plant modules. So RTFM

Title: Re: Blizkick problems
Post by: AmiKit on January 19, 2012, 11:00:11 PM

This is how I run Blizkick on Blizzard 1240/40:

C:BlizKick SYS:ROMs/rom40068 SPEEDROM EXTRESBUF=131072 FixMath404 RomFixes LocalFast SpeedyIDE NoClick BBlank QUIET

The rom40068 has only 84 bytes free space so if you want to use extra modules/features, the space need to be expanded with EXTRESBUF option.

Title: Re: Blizkick problems
Post by: dougal on January 20, 2012, 12:23:25 PM

I did it like this now:

C:Blizkick * Speedrom localfast extresbuf=131072

The Amiga when switched on will reboot and then load up to workbench.

That sounds right aye?

What i would like to know is where should i look for speed differences with the above settings?

Also i copied your extesbuf number. Is that good ? should i determine the number based on my config?

Sorry for all the questions. I am getting the hang of it and i did read the docs but it always helps getting feedback from experienced users :)

Quote from: AmiKit;676606

This is how I run Blizkick on Blizzard 1240/40:

C:BlizKick SYS:ROMs/rom40068 SPEEDROM EXTRESBUF=131072 FixMath404 RomFixes LocalFast SpeedyIDE NoClick BBlank QUIET

The rom40068 has only 84 bytes free space so if you want to use extra modules/features, the space need to be expanded with EXTRESBUF option.

Title: Re: Blizkick problems
Post by: Bamiga2002 on January 20, 2012, 12:41:04 PM

Also try "romfixes" module, it fixes quite a lot of bugs (see readme).

Title: Re: Blizkick problems
Post by: utri007 on January 20, 2012, 12:58:38 PM

You should also download and install FBlit and FText

That would make your miggy much faster and save chip ram, so that yopu can start all games from workbench.

Read this:

http://www.gregdonner.org/os39faq/compatibility.html

Games like napalm runs much smoother if you promote them to fast ram with FBlit, I've also promoted wb without any problems.

Title: Re: Blizkick problems
Post by: AmiKit on January 20, 2012, 03:29:23 PM

Quote from: dougal;676682

I did it like this now:
Also i copied your extesbuf number. Is that good ? should i determine the number based on my config?

The extresbuf number is OK. It provides you with lot of extra ROM space so any module/feature you add later will fit. For example "KingCON" module is the most memory hungry, it needs about 65535 bytes.