02 March 2021, 15:06 | #41 | |
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Also, no need for constant updates that slow down your system and clog up your drive. RAM disk is great but with fast hard drives it's not really needed today! Although I used to copy the whole of Fiendish Freddy's Big Top 'OFun to a ram disk and run it with no disk swapping back in the day (and I confess on an ST). Great game that I still haven't beaten... |
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02 March 2021, 20:55 | #42 |
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Proper file identification from headers and not filenames. A modern system would breeze proper identifixation
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Things I like about the Amiga's ramdisk:- 1. Set up for you 'out of the box', even in WB1.3 2. Only uses as much RAM as it needs. 3. Automatically used by the OS to store temporary files and settings. 4. Can give it a cool custom icon (with view settings) without having to edit a crappy registry or run a 3rd party program. A RAM disk would be almost useless on my PC because it 'only' has 1GB RAM and the OS (Windows XP) and apps blithely use it all up with no regard for the massive slowdown when swapping to the hard drive. Firefox uses about 200MB just to start up, and a single web page can use more than 1GB for no apparent reason. When this happens the entire OS becomes unresponsive and I just have to wait - perhaps for 20 minutes or longer - for it to do its thing. The Amiga doesn't have virtual memory so programs have to be mindful of RAM being a limited resource. They can't allocate more memory than is physically available so they can't lock up the machine forcing you to wait for ages to avoid losing your work. The amount of free RAM is shown on the Workbench title bar so it's easy to check that you have enough. |
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02 March 2021, 21:50 | #44 | |
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Among my many hopeless dreams is one in which a more popular OS vendor declares "Hey, guess what, we're using the Amiga RDB partitioning standard from now on."
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03 March 2021, 08:51 | #46 |
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The structure of the OS is simple like Commands in C, Libraries in Libs, it's something you just have to live with now days. You know the OS is there but understanding where files go etc is beyond the average user.
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I love how easy it is to learn how the OS functions, and most things can be set up manually. I had a shock when I found that wasn't the case with other operating systems. It's why I've never got on with Linux. I've only ever got on with GUI's. |
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