ICD AdSpeed
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                                  by  Swavek Jabrzemski (ACE President)


     [ Swavek demonstrated ICD's Adspeed at the October General
        Meeting. He paid $240.oo for the unit. - Ed ]


Here's just some benchmarks and comparisons, after one day of using
AdSpeed. It's very impressive, in the Mac mode it absolutely FLIES. Very
compatible, so far I haven't come across anything it doesn't work with (in
mono, that is; t'morrow I'll try out some color stuff). However, just to
be on the safe side, it comes with 4 different ways of switching speeds:

    DA - if you're using a GEM program
    Hot key - from within any program
    Script file - where you can specify at boot up which programs should
                  execute at which speed
    Hardware switch - any time, any place

Speed can be switched at any time, back and forth. (You really should see
Tempus or Harlekin NOW!) Here are just a few examples:

Arc'ing a 604K folder with 52 files in it:

                    8 MHz       16 MHz

            ARC     3 min 50    1 min 57
            LZH     5 min 58    3 min 03

Un-arc'ing a self-extracting 107K LZH file:

                    47 secs     28 secs

Quick Index 2.0 results:

                     8 MHz       16 MHz

    CPU memory         96 %       160 %
    CPU register       96 %       199 %
    CPU divide         96 %       198 %
    CPU shift          96 %       202 %
    DMA 64K read     3512 %      3469 %
    GEMDOS files     1814 %      2348 %
    Disk (RPM)      62069 %     94737 %

    TOS text          126 %       205 %
    TOS string        825 %      1321 %
    TOS scroll         89 %        96 %
    DEM dialog        223 %       367 %


NVDI benchmark test results:

* NVDI GEM-Test V1.02  (c) 1990, 1991 by Sven & Wilfried Behne
*
* Betriebssystem   : TOS 1.04 vom 06.04.1989
* Referenzsystem   : TOS 1.04
* CPU              : M68000
* Blitter          : ein
*
                     8 MHz      16 MHz
*
Linien             : 350 %      513 %
Rechtecke          : 654 %      815 %
Polygone           : 196 %      369 %
Kreise/Ellipsen    : 349 %      645 %
Rasteroperationen  : 766 %      828 %
Attributfunktionen : 183 %      311 %
Auskunftsfunktionen: 216 %      378 %
ESCAPES            : 199 %      292 %
BIOS-Ausgabe       :  93 %      138 %
GEMDOS-Ausgabe     : 469 %      713 %
AES-Objekt-Ausgabe : 229 %      390 %

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