I always wanted an accelerator for my A600, and seeing that Jens gave up on its new A600 accelerator, I decided to look elsewhere... I saw a Viper 630 card for sale ad on amigaworld.net, and decided to buy it. It cost me nearly $300 shipped from Australia, and I received it yesterday. My A600 rocks now!! :-D The only problem with this card is that it has only 4 MB of RAM soldered on board and it cannot be expanded any further (it's a clone of the M-Tec 630 with a slightly lower clock speed). I am using the PCMCIA port for the ethernet card, so I can't add another memory expansion there.
The problem is that whenever I load a MUI program it eats up almost all of the fast memory...
I remember how much I loved to surf the net back in 1998 with Voyager NG for which I still own the keyfile I bought back then. I can load it on the A600, and even surf a few websites before the memory runs out. The speed is more than acceptable, but unfortunately I can only load small pages before it runs out of memory and crashes. For instance I can't open amiga.org at all with it. The problem is that when I load the browser (without actually doing any browsing) I have only about 400K of fast ram left, and I'm using an 8 colour screen as well. However, the result is the same with most MUI programs.
Is there any way to reduce the general MUI memory consumption? I haven't actually customized anything, leaving all of the options at their default values, no background pics at all, I have only changed the default fonts... Any tips?
