Okay here's the low down.. I achieved 1.66MB (1666656 bytes) free RAM (from 2MB Chip only) with a fully usable 8 colour MagicWB desktop with most of the frills:
To do this I've:
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- Installed Ordering
- Installed lha, lzx, unzip and configured it with Ordering
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If anybody else can help me better this I'd like to see 1.7 MB free ;)
It's fun to see that some one else has discovered and appreciates the efficiency of Ordering.
I must have missed something, what's magical about 1.7 MB free? You seem to be sacrificing much to get there. Is adding a fast ram expansion out of the question?
Fast Ram would modestly improve system performance, turn the Ramdisk into a far more useful tool, allow better disk buffering to improve access, etc.
You asked for software suggestions. You might consider an improved hard disk file system, like PFS3 (Hopefully, available in PD soon, it's much faster and more secure than FFS). There are faster serial port drivers, math libraries, and datatypes on Aminet.
Are you trying to see how far you can push the system, are you primarily a gamer? What do want this system to do?
