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If you're reading this second, you've already found the instructions for
speedup are in German. Additionally, even if you get it translated, they're
still not all that clear.
If you're reading this first, be warned the other directions are in
German and according to my translator (who probably isn't very good on
technical stuff anyway) that it is not very clear.
After some not so careful experimentation, I found the following works
when using Speedup ON AN A1000. I have not tried it on a 500 or 2000.
If you have a one drive system, the author mentions setting the speedup
command line to 800. This means nothing if you're not a programmer and
know that the actual command is in hexadecimal and preceded by 5 zeroes.
Actually, Speedup works the best at "800" but you must set it correctly.
So if you want to use Speedup on DF0: type the following:
1> Speedup 00000800
If you put Speedup in your 'c' directory, you can add the above command to
your Startup-Sequence and things improve admirably. Beats Addbuffers and
doesn't have the problems of FACCII.
If you have a two drive system (both 3.5 inch floppies) and you want to
change the second drive speed too, type the following:
1> Speedup df1: 00000800
***NOTE*** the space after df1: That is required or the drive does some
odd things.
You can put both commands in your startup-sequence, one right after the
other EXACTLY AS WRITTEN ABOVE and get very, very good results. I like
it.
WARNINGS: DO NOT USE THE COMMAND
1> Speedup df0: 00000800
or any other speed change on df0: Speedup apparently defaults to that
drive in the original instruction. Adding df0: in the argument gets
some REALLY interesting sounds. I don't know if I damaged my drive, it
seems to be still working, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
COMMENTS: You can experiment with the last three digits using other
numbers if you remember to translate to hexadecimal when you get that
high. I found the author's recommended 800 worked best for me too.
Good luck!
John Sylvester