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- Short: Slows your Amiga down.
- Uploader: dvalk@bart.nl (Dick Valk)
- Author: dvalk@bart.nl (Dick Valk)
- Type: util/misc
-
- Brake slows down all tasks that run at a lower priority than itself.
- I wrote it because I thought I saw another program of mine do something
- funny, but it happened too quickly to see what it was.
-
- An explanation of the controls:
-
- Brake level: the higher the level, the slower all programs that
- run at a lower priority than Brake.
- Brake Action : turn braking on or off
- Priority: the priority at which Brake should run.
-
- Be careful when you set the brake level high. It could lock your Amiga up.
- When it does, you can use the emergency brake: keep the left mouse button
- pressed for a while. For this I banged the hardware, I am afraid. I could
- not rely on the system, as it too might be locked up. I'm not sure this
- works though. Haven't tested it yet.
-
- Another small use of Brake is setting the priority low, and see what the
- system load is of all tasks with a higher priority. The more load, the
- slower the square in the bar at the top of the window will move.
-