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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
-
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