Top utilities and patches

[DeQuevedo]

Hi All

I do have an 040 overclocked to 33 Mhz. voodoo 3 3000, ppc and all the ####s working on my 1200.
Is there a patch to speedup the 040 a little more?

-Have Fun infected Incubes!

[xeron]

In no particular order:

1. DOpus 4 (although i wish they'd fix ConfigOpus)
2. MagicMenu
3. Birdie, VisualPrefs & TitleShadow (same choice because they're all just for sprucing up WB)
4. Blacks Editor 1.0 (the updates are unstable)
5. AssignZ

... 5 is not enough ...

6. Env-handler
7. KingCON
8. MiamiDx (hopefully replaced with RoadShow soon)
9. WHDLoad
10. MUI
11. SnoopDOS

I would include things like "YAM" and "IBrowse" but I consider them applications, rather than utilities.

[xeron]

Is there a patch to speedup the 040 a little more?

Yeah, its called a 68060  :-D

But 040 speed won't matter if and when OS4 for the Blizzard PPC arrives.

[DeQuevedo]

Yep

My ppc is a 266 one.

I hope *whenever* we will be able to run OS4 on the Blizzard PPC

[sTix]

@DeQuevedo

yes, oxypatcher is nice....

and FSMathlibs...

and MMU.library is recommended for
finetuning/stability . . .

[sTix]

AND

SCALOS!!!

I cant believe that people still are using WB
when this great piece exists...

AND EXECUTIVE!!! makes your amiga feel twice
as fast!

:-)

[DeQuevedo]

FSMathlibs?
 
What´s that?

I have heard that Oxypatcher is not efficient on 040, only in 060 boards.

Tell me!

[SilvrDrgn]

1) BlizKick
2) MCP
3) HSMathLibs
4) DiskMaster
5) PFS3

I *used* to use oxypatcher, but MuRedox is faster, and if you're using MMULib then you should be using that ;-)

My top hacks, i mean patches -
1. BlizKick
2. Visual Prefs
3. Birdie
4. MCP - though it's got enough problems :-(
5. xadmaster

And Utilities -
1. DOpus Magellan
2. Tinymeter (my custom hacked one which shows P96 ram)
3. MiamiDX
4. rc-ftpd (well, I would say that)
5. AmiIRC

Robin

[voxel]

@lo :

>mmu.library? Its the only one I haven't heard of, whats it do?

R : Great tool for general AmigaOS stabilization and unifying 68020/30 (68881/2) and 040/060 MMU usage.

- Will contribute to less memory use and  fragmentation,
- comes with 68020 /030 /040 /060 very efficient and SMALL libraries, (68060.library is 100KB smaller than Phase5 / DCE ones!)
- install a new resource called "fpsp.resource" used by the v45 math libraries to speed up non implemented FPU instructions in the 040 / 060 FPUs,
- thus NO NEED for oxypatcher, Phase5 CyberPatcher, ect...  anymore,
- comes with replacement for well known (and usefull) debugging tools : enforcer, guardian angel, mmu scan, ect...
- provide standard interfaces to MMU and virtual memory handling (memory.library),
- provide a standard debug library (disassembler.library)...
- and some other goodies :-)

For more infos RTFM :-D

Amigalement,

Jean-François.

[Munchkin]

These are the ones I couldn't live without..

KingCON
Toolsdeamon
Snoopdos
Directory Opus ( NOT magellan, I hate that one )
YAM

.. and more.

[Karlos]

voxel wrote:
@lo :

>mmu.library? Its the only one I haven't heard of, whats it do?

R : Great tool for general AmigaOS stabilization and unifying 68020/30 (68881/2) and 040/060 MMU usage.

Wow, I guess I'm just unlucky. Installation of the mmu.library on my BlizzPPC system totally screwed everything up. Datatypes died, cybergfx stopped working etc :-(

[carls]

@DeQuevedo

Oxypatcher is not a program to make your CPU go _faster_.
It's a program that handles some of the shortcomings of nonexistant 68060 support in AmigaOS.

Most Amiga software wasn't written with the 060 in mind, so it uses instructions not available in the 060 (the instruction set in the 060 was reduced, it's sort of semi-RISC).
These instructions needs to be emulated and oxypatcher handles this. Software for this is of course included when you buy an 060 card but Oxypatcher is said to be more efficient.

There's no software that makes your CPU go faster :-)

[whabang]

carls wrote:
There's no software that makes your CPU go faster :-)

Well I have this prgram on my PC called SoftFSB...  :-D  :-D  :-D

[PulsatingQuasar]

@DeQuevedo

Have you allready tried watercooling.....

 8-)  8-)  8-)

I'm also thinking of overclocking to 33 MHz. Must work with a good cooler placed on the CPU

[voxel]

@ Karlos :

Did you install it by hands :-?

Normally, the provided installer makes a pretty good job.
But (rare) sometimes it can require some fine tuning ;-)

BTW can you mail me your actual startup-sequence, user-startup, wbstartup drawer contents, and versions of OS/patches you use?

Amigalement,

Jean-François.