Which No Click Program?

[dannyp1]

I was looking in Aminet and there are several NoClick programs for disk drives.  Is there one that is considered the best?  Thanks,

Dan

[A4000_Mad]

I've always used ClickNot which you just put in your WBStartup drawer :-)

[meega]

A blank formatted disk in the drive works very well and doesn't need any extra programs or hacks.

[Darrin]

Or you could shove cotton buds into your ears so that they burst the ear drums and then you wouldn't hear the click or need the hack (or floppy disk).

[A4000_Mad]

Or just ask the wife to tell you what she thinks of your "Amiga junk". You then won't be able to hear any floppy drive clicks for sure! :argue:    :whack:

[weirdami]

if there's no real difference in any of them, then pick the smallest one. maybe someone could tell us why there's more than one anyway. different techniques? which technique is best?

[arkpandora]

@A4000_Mad

Maybe you could show your wife some comparison between 2D animation on a PC or Mac and 2D animation on your Amiga : if she is a bit artist or the arty type or simply sensitive to it, she won't call it "junk" anymore.


@weirdami (even more off-topic)

As French is my mother tongue and in French "ami" means "friend" (just like "amiga" means "female friend" in Spanish), I always read your username as if it was "weirdfriend", because it suits your avatar : is it a sculpture of your own ?

[Matt_H]

@ arkpandora

It's Crow T. Robot! :-)



@ dannyp1

I used DOSPrefs as my NoClick utility for a while (I don't bother with one now). It's a commodity and very easy to use.

[mikrucio]

i love the click!

[dannyp1]

weirdami said:

"if there's no real difference in any of them, then pick the smallest one. maybe someone could tell us why there's more than one anyway. different techniques? which technique is best?"

This is kinda what I was trying to get at.  If they are not all the same which is best?  If one is better than the rest we should get the word out and probably include it in some of these threads with the OS improvement patches.  

[pVC]

I guess they all use same technique as there's standard function for it in OS. Some programs might include other features as well etc. I'm using WildClick from Aminet for my plain a1200 and MCP's no click function in my fully patched main a1200

[meega]

Does it use C, Assembler, or some other programming language? Does it patch the system directly or run a separate task/process? Was it written as an exercise to learn about things, or coded by someone who already knew what they were doing? Is it "example" code? Is it hacky or "clean"? Etc........

Reinventing wheels is quite a common programming hobby.

[Piru]

These programs toggle one bit in the trackdisk.device unit structure (per drive). The unit structure and the bit are described in the devices/trackdisk.h include.

There is no patching or separate task/process needed. You can't get this wrong.

[mdivancic]

Piru wrote:
There is no patching or separate task/process needed. You can't get this wrong.

Maybe you can't!


 :-)

[arkpandora]

@dannyp1

You might find more information in this thread.


@Matt_H

Thank you for educating me : I can't remember seeing anything of him in Europe, but up to not long ago I didn't even know who Britney Spears was, so he may just as well have been on prime time.