Ultimate Amiga environment utilities

[LoadWB]

Between the several Amiga systems I own and use, I have found various utilities to increase performance, looks, and add miscellaneous features.  I have yet to catalog all of these, often finding them on a whim, installing, then forgetting.  Some include CopyMemQuicker, OxyPatcher, BlazeWCP, FBlit, PowerIcons, and more.

So, I am curious... what is YOUR Amiga system(s) running to enhance its operating environment?  What software and configurations would you recommend or not recommend to someone setting up their "Classic" Amiga system -- 500, 600, 1000, 1200, 2000, 3000, 4000, et al.  Sure, MUI counts as well

For me, usability and practicality outweigh gaming, but that might not be the case for you or others, so whatever your configuration is, let's jam.

[fx]

I like running MCP and Stackattack, and on a AGA system FBlit is a definite must, and BlazeWCP is also nice.

If you mainly run system-friendly stuff on the system in question, FScreen can really improve the speed of the graphics but it's not the most stable program on this earth.

[meega]

A1200/68030/16MB, 700MB hard disk..

MCP, has much of what I need integrated into the one package.
FBlit, oh yes.
NewIconsV4, and DefIcons (very nice).
ToolsDaemon.
Home-made script files and a thoroughly hacked Startup-Sequence.

[fx]

Aahh, ToolsDaemon, how could I forget about that, KingCON is another absolute must!

[meega]

KingCON, yes, crucial for ARexx, and for jumping the console to another screen! And DirectoryOpus (pre-Magellan, off of a cover disk) with LhaDir (for browsing archives, and CD's through Parnet).

[fx]

Why use DOpus off of a cover disk and not from here?

[TNovosel]

On my A4000 with Mediator board, I use MagicMenu, PowerIcons, ToolDeamon, StackAttack, Birdie2000, VisualPrefs.



 

[mihcael]

FastIprefs - uses fastmem instead of chipmem where possible! (get it off aminet)

[meega]

fx wrote:
Why use DOpus off of a cover disk and not from here?

Because it was on a floppy disk on the front of the magazine when I bought it (at the time), it was unrestricted and 'licensed' but not upgradeable (without payment, at the time), I didn't have internet access (at the time), it worked well, if it ain't broke...

[x56h34]

BlizKick, of course. A great little tool made by our member Piru. Works with most (if not all) Phase 5 accelerators with the MapRom feature, and even A3640.

[amigadave]

This is the kind of information that should be gathered and documented somewhere for beginning Amiga users to browse through and help them tweak their systems.  Also it will help us old users who have forgotten what all the best utilities were that we installed on our systems 15 to 20 years ago.

It would be great if someone took the time to put it all together on a CD with a program that you just entered your Amiga model, memory installed, CPU accelerator if one is installed, and the program would then install all the best utilities to get the best performance from your system.  Call it the Unofficial AmigaOS v3.95.  It would not have any copyrighted material, but instead prompt the user to insert the disks for the programs needed (including the OS 3.9 CD itself) to extract the files neccessary, or it would ask for a directory where the files could be found.  That is how Amikit works, and it is very cool and easy the way he has it set up to install.

Come on all of you Amiga experts, share your setups with the rest of us.  Then we can get a few Amiga gurus to code an install program to simplify getting the programs all installed on the system HD.

Is anyone else interested in this project?

[adolescent]

@amigadave

Have at it...

[adolescent]

BTW, I meant the document part, not the CD.  I think an "essential apps/utils" section with good install and configuration instructions is a good idea.  You could always link to the files, etc.  What's great about a Wiki is anyone can add/edit content.

[amigadave]

@ adolescent,

I would if I had the time, but I just took a new job that is going to be very demanding for at least the first year.

After that, who knows, I might have time to work on Amiga projects.

[cv643d]

Statram, it gives you a Ramdisk called "SD0:". You can unpack DMS archives to it or LHA archives, and the content wont disapear if you reset your Amiga. And it will increase its size automatically. Every time I set up a new Amiga system I add Statram.