Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    Thanks Ed!

    Thanks Ed!
    
    Umm... Some Mfg sell multi drive in an external closure/power supply.
    Wonder if a three drive box with Read-only AmigaDOS kick/Wb/Extras
    could have overlapped seeking with Fast file organization.  With
    additional density, It could surplant the 5 Meg mass storage niche!
    
    (P.s. The fast Iconc' alone would sexy for a bounded say GEOS-like
           environment!)
    
    Any dreamers out there? ;^)
    

    	I downloaded FASTDISK, and I was impressed.  I was getting some
    really nice disk speeds.  Icons DO pop up quickly, and the only
    problem I have with it is that if you write to a disk that you used
    it on, AmigaDOS begins to put things back the old way.  The disk
    still works, but the more you write to it, the slower it gets, until
    you are right back where you started.  Therefore, I recommend that
    you use FASTDISK on backups of disks you don't normally change,
    like Word Perfect, and you Workbench disk.  As far as the accused
    disk destruction, I may be wrong, but I don't think FASTDISK is
    responsible.  From the documentation, I gathered that FASTDISK does
    about the same thing that copying a disk over to a newly formatted
    floppy does, but it makes SURE that priority information goes together
    on priority tracks.  It just finds the best places to put things.
    For anybody that uses it, I hope you like it.
    
    Chris
    
    P.S.  If you use the Addbuffers command with a disk that you run
    through FASTDISK, the results are amazing.  I had a disk with about
    30 files on it, ten of them being icons.  Using Addbuffers df1:
    32, the icons popped up almost INSTANTLY when I REOPENED the window.
    
    { Amiga P-P-P-Power! }
    

    Here are some newer programs from Plink.  You can copy them from:
    
      VTHRAX::AMIGA$PUBLIC:
    
    UMAST69.ARC
      This is version 0.69 of Utilimaster.  It's another disk utility
    program, is missing some features that DiskMaster has, but has some
    others that DiskMaster doesn't.  A number of the gadgets are
    user-configurable: you can set what each one does and also what
    gets displayed in each one (up to 8 characters, I think.)  Also
    you can define which directories have their own gadgets, i.e. DF0:,
    DF1:, RAM:, RRD:, etc., again up to 8.  Copying or moving files
    seems a bit slower than with DiskMaster.  What I like about UtiliMaster
    is that is maintains the free space on each device on the display,
    updating it after each change.
    
    YOTSEE.ARC
      This is a remake of a PD Yahtzee (sp?) game which was written
    quite a while ago.  Apparently the original code had trouble rolling
    "Yahtzee's", this one fixes that.  Also, you can play against the
    Amiga, a nice addition.
    
    WHEEL.ARC
      Another remake of a previous PD game.  This is a Wheel of Fortune
    game.  The older one I have was written in AmigaBASIC, and worked
    ok.  This one is written in C and has more flash.  One player only,
    and you play against two computer opponents.  Play is heavily dependent
    on the narrator device: most prompts and play of opponents is spoken.
    There is even a "multi-tasking" Vanna!

    Two more on VTHRAX::AMIGA$PUBLIC:
    
    FASTLIFE.ARC
    LIFE3D.ARC
    
    ...two versions of the "game" of life.

May as well use one of the existing notes on uploading... seems there are 
enough of them!

New on Norse::amiga:[upload] are:

525disk.arc	- IFF schematic for the 5.25" floppy ID & drive latch that
		  I built for myself. Many from the usenet are just plain 
		  wrong and tell the amiga the attached drive is a 3.5". 
		  A wiring list is also included as well as a IFF display 
		  program.

Setcpu.arc	- A2620 owners will definitely want this one! It is a program
		  to control 68020/30 parameters like cache, MMU, etc. It also
		  can copy the roms into 32bit memory and use the MMU to 
		  map them to their original addreses. I have seen my A2620
		  give an apparent speed increase of about 2X when using this
		  feature. That is 2X of the normal 68020 speed! This one
		  is from Dave Hayne of CBM so you know it is done right!

Sampledevice.zoo  This is from the CATS folks and is a sample is a device 
		  driver for the amiga. Enjoy!

Set-Requester-Text.zoo

		  Replaces the dull and uninformative requestors that exist
		  in the amiga today with something more fun and useful. It 
		  is implemented as a function wedge. From Carolyn Scheppner
		  of CATS at CBM. Good Stuff too.

	Enjoy!
		-SES

    NOW IN NORSE::AMIGA:[UTILITIES]

    
    I'm getting 'Login information invalid...'
    
    wayne
    

    apologies. I got caught by one of the virus thingies wondering about
    the network. You should find that it works now
    
    Martin