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Offline Hyperspeed

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Re: Ultimate Boot Floppy
« Reply #14 from previous page: February 22, 2007, 02:00:06 AM »
No! 3 (three)!

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Disturb Reorg and kiss goodbye to your entire hard disk contents. Sometimes it will crash the machine, other times it will just lock.

Not sure whether it's worth using, even for floppies.
 

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Re: Ultimate Boot Floppy
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2007, 02:54:03 AM »
I've got a boot disk, that has AZ and one of the older versions of Diskmaster2, and its been a life saver on a few occasions.

I haven't used it in a long time, (I think it was powerpacker?) but when I had an A500 with a small HD, it was to unpack executable programs in order to save space. Would something like that work with programs on a floppy? It might with a TCP stack at least.
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Re: Ultimate Boot Floppy
« Reply #16 on: February 22, 2007, 12:04:25 PM »
Back in the heavy floppy usage days, I used to mount a RAD:, diskcopy the contents of the floppy into the RAD:  Open quarterback tools and get it to defrag the disk in memory (the RAD), which it did really fast and was kinda cool to watch. Then diskcopy the contents of the RAD back to the floppy and it's reorganised.  :-D
2 x A1200 Blizzard IV 030@50Mhz
1 x A3000D 030@25Mhz
1 x A2000 030@25Mhz
1 x A2000, 2 x A600
2 x A500