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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Linchpin on February 27, 2004, 02:01:15 PM
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Anyone used this software?
Appriciate any info, any advice on where to purchase, etc :-)
Thanks
Kevin
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Oxyron Patcher does the same as Cyberpatcher for Blizzard and Cyberstorm cars. Oxyron patcher is much faster then Cyberpatcher. This piece of software is thing for all 68040 and 68060 processors.
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It works well. If you are using a cyberstorm
(not sure about blizzards), you will need one
of the newer versions. I don't remember the
version numbers, but I had to download a newer
version vs what shipped on my disk otherwise
the program froze the machine up. If anyone
knows where to download the newer versions,
please tell us. I would like to use this program
again.
C Snyder
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Mines an apollo 040 card.
Any more info appriciated :-P
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I used it about 100 years ago when my amigas were still using OS3.1 or something. and it did speed things up a bit.
once i upgraded to OS3.9 i really didn't need it anymore as that alone really speeded up my old 2000's!
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Well, if someone is interested...
I didn't use OxyPatcher, so cannot say anything about it.
But I can say one thing about CyberPatcher - it is not very bright.
What it really does it has number of commands, hardcoded in its code, that is recognized and patched on the bit-by-bit comparing bases.
What do I mean?
Author has chosen number of commands he decided to be most popular and put them into array. If the command uses different registers, or uses immediate argument - it won't be recognized!
If you want to check something - try to start Amiga port of DukeNukem3D together with sushi and CyberSnooper: NONE of long multilpies/divisions is recognized and patched!
I guess that OxyPatcher is more cleaver, but I belive it's comercial.
I personally downloaded and installed MMUlibrary from Aminet (THOR-software... thats pity he doesn't produce anything for Amiga any more. :-( ). Together it comes with much more well organized bunch of libraries (680x0 as base library, which checks the hardware and decide what library really needs to be loaded - from 68000.library (yes) to 68060.library) and some usefull tools.
One of them is MuRedox. The tool that really checks the reason of unimplemented instruction exception then generates needed stub procedure on the fly and patches the code of course.
I had some problems with installation, as it seems that I didn't have the expected versions of everything, but eventually made it working for me.
If anyone has any comment or has problems with the installation - try to catch me somehow. ;-)
Good luck
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once i upgraded to OS3.9 i really didn't need it anymore as that alone really speeded up my old 2000's!
this is something I have always asked myself: so if I use Os3.9 with the new setpacht/romupdate oxypatcher is unnessecary?
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I looked all over the net, but I think Oxyron can not be purchased new anymore. Occasionally it comes up on ebay. Too bad the author won't release it to public domain or shareware :-(
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I allway thought that there was little difference between the Oxyronpatcher and the Cyberpatcher. I thought the mainreason why there was an Oxyronpatcher was that the Cyberpatcher only works with P5 cards and the Apollo and GVP cards don`t come with an equivalent to the Cyberpatcher. So you would only need an Oxyron when you have an non P5 060 card ?
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I'm pretty sure Oxyronpatcher and Cyberpatcher are basically equivalent,
at least "in theory". MuRedox is OK too, although I did experience
some very strange sound corruption issues with it. (Try running
"Zeon" by Nature after starting MuRedox...the sound is trashed for
some reason.)
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@rayt
Whether OxyPatcher will benefit your system depends on the sort of programs you run on it.
Programs involving intensive math operations (3D games, 3D rendering, etc) will improve significantly in speed. These benefits are independent of the SetPatch/SkipROMupdates settings used in OS3.9
A trivial overview of the effect of OxyPatcher can be found HERE (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AmigaCDGS/message/321)
Cheers,
JaX