The power of IconBeFast

[Amigaz]

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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.

[Amigaz]

motorollin wrote:
Would this make any difference if PowerIcons is being used?

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moto

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

[Amigaz]

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

[Amigaz]

AmiKit wrote:

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

[Amigaz]

motorollin wrote:

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:

[Amigaz]

motorollin wrote:

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