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Old 02-01-2007, 07:16 PM   #1
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Old 02-01-2007, 07:30 PM   #2
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@AmigaMance: useful info, thanks!

@Piru: I wonder who you're referring to?!

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Old 02-01-2007, 08:19 PM   #3
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Some points about PFS, which I use religiously.

There is no real nead to de-frag it, it is naturally self-defragging. As a developer using a compiler that is a stupid unix-port, I partake in disk activity that would fragment FFS to the point of failure. Occasionally, when writing a file, it will take a minute instead of a few seconds. That is PFS doing some housecleaning. Whenever it's not doing that, it's lightning fast.

The scary part about PFS is that PFSDoctor is not quite as reliable as something like DiskSalv. So, if your disk does get trashed, you are more likely to have a disaster. But, I have used PFSDoctor many times without a serious problem, too.
I advise: DO NOT use the 'diskvalid' program that comes with PFS3. It is supposed to be the shell equivalent of PFSDoctor. It does not work the same. It HAS severely trashed a few hard drives for me!
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@AmigaMance

Nice list. You mention just about every speedup patch I use.

A couple points:

It's good you said not to use FBlit if you don't have AGA. On my ECS Amiga, it actually drastically slows down everything (about half speed).

SystemPatch works fine for ECS Amigas. I recommend people use the NOINTUITION option, otherwise some applications with custom filerequesters (DigiPaint3, DSS3) will screw up and/or crash. Also use the -loadseg option or else xvs.library will have problems and Zoom (screen magnifyer) will crash.

Although I use smart refresh in MUI, I wouldn't recommend any smart refresh programs. Every single one I tried caused annoying screen corruptions.
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Old 02-02-2007, 08:27 AM   #5
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Nice list you have there @AmigaMance :-)
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Old 02-02-2007, 08:32 AM   #6
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Old 02-02-2007, 08:39 AM   #7
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hmm..running most of this stuff but never tried SystemPatch on an RTG Amiga..gonna try tonite :-D


SmartWB sounds like one of the patches MCP has or am I mistaken

Anyway, this guide has the best speedup tips IMHO
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Old 02-02-2007, 09:02 AM   #8
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If you are using a 68000 or a 68020 with no fast-ram, please die.
Um why? My a500 works perfectly well with 68000 for the task i use it for "classic gaming" ;-)
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The only problem with all these pathces is that sometimes you'll end up not knowing if an app is misbehaving because of itself or of a patch... Except from that they are great.
That's why I have a small partition with a clean 3.1 install to test misbehaving applications.
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Nice guide. Is there a way to convert my already existing FFS partitions to SFS?
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Ok, tried Systempatch on my A4000 (040 40mhz, CV64/3D) didn't notice any difference but SmartWB was noticeable :-) but not much...didn't know SmartWB was such an old patch
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Nice! :-)
You can probably find more recent smart refresh patches on Aminet. They are all the same, more all less. I just use this one.
Yeah..this one seem to work nice :-) only thing that bothers me is it's splash screen when it starts

Just started using MemOptimizer too...can you please tell me what parameters you are running it with?
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