Want to hold on to my Chip Ram

[Damion]

Just upgraded my A1200 with an A1230 with 32 megs of ram.  Works great, now is
there some way I can put up a decent Workbench image without chewing up all my chip ram?
Is there anyway to load images in graphics programs larger than 2 megs or does every graphics program and the like use only chip ram to display images?
Thanks

Install fblit and ftext, that will help tremendously.

[Damion]

and in sys:prefs/workbench you set the icons to be loaded to fastram if you use os3.9

That's true, it works (in conjuntion with FBlit) and saves some chipmem when a bunch of icons are on the screen. BUT

You need to download WBCtrl, add it to your startup-sequence directly before LoadWB:

WBCtrl IMT=ICONFAST
LoadWB SIMPLEGELS

Then there shouldn't be any issues (been working here for years.) See the FBlit docs and here for more details.

[Damion]

Should Fblit and Ftext still be used if an RTG such as Picasso IV is installed?

No, only native graphics.