My A500+ GVP A530 feels so damn slow

[mr_a500]

Or it's the ECS graphics that is making everything so damn slow or the expansion bus is 16bit?

I was going to say it's the kickstart, but you say it is mapped to fast RAM. When using the A500 3.1 ROM, my A500 runs at half the speed of using the A1200 3.0 ROMs on my Viper card.

I'm going to guess it's the expansion bus then. My A500 with 33Mhz 68020 (16 colour WB) feels pretty fast. The Viper expansion uses the CPU slot instead of the expansion bus.

You could try to speed it up a bit with SystemPatch. I noticed about a 10% improvement in window/icon drawing.

[mr_a500]

Both the Viper and the A530 are connected to the same bus, just at the opposite ends.

So, you're saying that expansion through the CPU slot would be the same speed as expansion through the side expansion slot?

How fast/slow something feels to a person, is very relative.

Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. Maybe AMIGAZ can do an AIBB module or something, then we can have real numbers to compare.

When I say "feels fast" I mean opening a window with 30 16 colour folder icons takes less than 3 seconds and opening a program like FinalWriter or Wordworth on a 16 colour screen takes about 2 seconds.