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USE THIS DEMO AT YOUR OWN RISK !!!
BY USING BLITZ.DEMO YOU ACCEPT FULL RESPONSIBILITY
FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSS OF DATA
ALWAYS USE A BACK-UP !!!
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* BLITZ.DEMO COPYRIGHT (C) 1988 BY MARK HELLMAN *
* FAST DISK FORMATS COPYRIGHT (C) 1988 BY MARK HELLMAN *
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YOU MAY FREELY DISTRIBUTE THIS DEMO IN THE ORIGINAL ARCED FORM IF UNMODIFIED
THIS IS A DEMO AND IS NOT INTENDED FOR NORMAL USE.
IT MAY NOT BE USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE THAN DEMOING.
DEVELOPERS ARE INVITED TO CONTACT ME FOR USE OF THE FAST DISK FORMATS
ON THEIR PRODUCTION DISKS.
USERS LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.
EMAIL CIS 71320,761
Smail P.O. Box 1112
Wheatridge, CO 80034-1112
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Welcome to The B.A.D. Demo,
What is B.A.D. ya say ? Well...
B.A.D. - Blitz-Amys'-Disks
There is nothing more irritating than a Super Computer with SLOW Disks.
Relief at last !
B.A.D. is a group of programs that allow you to PERMANENTLY
INCREASE THE ACCESS SPEED OF YOUR FLOPPY DRIVES 4 TO 10 TIMES !!!!!!!!!
Ya see the problem is that DOS dosn't write the data in the format that
the read routines can really use. The solution was discovered while
writing a HardDisk Back-up/Restore program ( Available SOON ! ).
Everyone I know is always complaining about the floppy's speed so
I applied what I found out about HardDisks and BAD was Born !
I decided that the floppy routines would benefit more people than
the harddisk routines so I shelved HYPER-BACK for a while and wrote BAD.
When the first test was completed I was amazed ! HARDDISK SPEEDS FROM
A FLOPPY ? That's right ! At least for DIRECTORIES and ICONS. Actual
data reading is the same speed as when you filecopy all the files to
a new disk ( There isn't a problem here, the Amiga already SMOKES on data,
reading a whole track each revolution ! ) The really neat thing is
that the speed increase is permanent- it's not just fast on what
you have already read in!
B.A.D., for floppies, takes the form of a program that replaces your
DISKCOPY command that blitzes the disk as it is copied. There is also
a utility program to do a quick relink of your directories and files
since as AmigaDos deletes and writes new data through normal use, the
Blitz will slowly go away. This is corrected with QuickLink between
diskcopies. For you Harddisk Owners there is BlitzHD that will Blitz
your harddisk INPLACE and a ChekSum'r that will remove those annoying
Checksum errors that accrue, without requiring you to do a format and
restore since they are usually NOT caused by a bad sector ( usable on
floppies also. ) An upgrade to Hyper-Back will be made available when
released for $20.00.
As an example I took my Marauder II disk and after deleting the ArkDemo
program from it, WorkBench took 22 secs to open the disk.
After the Blitz, WorkBench opened the disk in 3.5 SECS !!!
Find this hard to believe ?
Try out the DEMO and if you like what you see, read the MUST_HAVE.txt
file.
HAPPY BLITZING...
Blitz.Demo
Well this is MY answer to Advertizing...
Blitz.Demo uses a stripped version of the BlitzHD program to Blitz ONLY
THE ROOT DIRECTORY FOR WORKBENCH !!! of the floppy in drive DF0:.
Unfortunately this type of processing is not real efficient for floppies
so it is somewhat slow and will not Blitz all disks. Please have
patience- the results ARE IMPRESSIVE ! If you follow the directions
you shouldn't have any problems.
ALWAYS USE A BACK-UP !!!!!
THIS IS ONLY A DEMO ! IT IS NOT DESIGNED TO HANDLE ALL DISKS !
THIS WAS INTENTIONAL !!!
DEMO INSTRUCTIONS:
1>- Format a blank disk.
2>- COPY 1 to 20 small files with Icons onto the disk trying to
keep the disk as empty as possible to speed up the
processing time. Floppies are SOOOO SLOOOOW !
3>- Diskcopy your test disk to a blank disk so you can
see a before and after comparison.
4>- Copy BAD.DEMO onto one of your test disks and put
it in DF0:
5>- Now at a CLI type in `df0:BAD.DEMO' <RETURN>
The DEMO will process the ROOT DIRECTORY of the disk
and then cause a revalidation of the disk
6>- Now from WorkBench, open the disk. WorkBench will take some
time to reorganize ITS' information on the disk. MAKE SURE
THE WRITE PROTECT IS OFF so Workbench can rewrite it's own
.info file! When it is finished, close the disk's window.
Now Reopen the disk...Try it again... Yowsah!!!
Now, THE OLD ONE ? ... YCCH!!!
And now it's PERMANENT!!!
LET ME KNOW WHAT YA THINK OF THE RESULTS,
LATER DAYS
THE UNKNOWN AMIGO
NOTE: Blitz DOES NOT do weird things to the floppy- it simply
lays down in a much more orderly fashion what AmigaDos did so
poorly to begin with. The result is 100% compatible with AmigaDos
and in fact AmigaDos will like what it sees- it will not have
to hunt all over the place to get what it needs.
P.S.
If it runs out of room and you really want to try it on that disk,
TRY Filecoping it to a blank disk first.
REMEMBER-- IT'S A DEMO !
I'd rather work on the real thing than some wastefull promo demo,
wouldn't YOU ?