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MFix is copyright 1988 by Stephen Gunn All Rights Reserved
This archive in unmodified form may be freely distributed as long as no
charge is made other than for media and postage costs. It should NOT be
posted anywhere where a copyright is extended over posted material.
(like CompuServe, like anybody pays any attention to CompuServe's copyright
over posted material anyway)
Docs for MFix 1.0:
First: The reason for MFix
Everybody knows what Marauder is, and you're probably familiar with that
cute little rainbow effect in the background; welllll, that cute little
background is just sucking up the DMA cycles and slowing down the whole
machine.
Someone noted in AmigaWorld (I forget the month) that if you use left-Amiga
n & m to flip Marauder into the background once you had started a copy, and
then flipped back when it was done, the copy went noticably faster. All
well and good except that you have to actually flip back and forth after
every copy, and then when it finishes a copy you maybe don't notice for half
a minute (thus voiding any speed advantage) and it's just generally a pain.
Second: What it Does
Before I go any further, I've just got to say that whoever it was at
Discovery who decided to go in favor of the rainbow thing instead of speed
is not the cleverest of persons. A copier should first and foremost be
fast, NOT cute. So whoever you are, I just want to let 'ya know, I think
you're kind of dumb in that regard. Nice copier otherwise though.
(And let me note here that I am a registered Marauder II owner)
Okay, to get to the point. This little program should be inserted into your
startup-sequence on your marauder disk like so:
Run MFix
Run MarauderII
MFix will load, wait for marauder to load, then become active. Now,
whenever you start a copy with Marauder, MFix will flip a screen up to cover
the Marauder screen, and when the copy is done Mfix will put the screen in
the background, revealing the Marauder screen again. (Nifty, Eh?)
As it is written now, MFix will list the modes of all the viewports
it encounters before it finds the Marauder viewport. If you're a patient
person and you're willing to wait the 25 seconds MFix delays before
looking throught the viewports, you can use MFix to list all the modes in
all of the current viewports (as long as Marauder isn't running).
This results in a pretty dramatic increase in the speed of copies; you can
actually hear that Marauder is going faster. A plain copy normally takes
Marauder 1 minute 48 seconds, with MFix running it takes 1 Minute 22
seconds, nearly half a minute faster, 25% less time for a copy.
The Plea:
I'm a poor starving CS student, and if you like and use this program, I'd
really appreciate the modest sum of $1 If I get $50 I'll add a beep
to the program so that you'll know when the copy is done, and if I get a
hundred dollars I'll have it exit cleanly instead of requiring you to reboot
to get rid of it.
Please send me money:
Stephen Gunn
944 S. Wisconsin
Oak Park, IL 60304
A Final Note: Since the guys at Discovery are now making games, they've
decided to stop making new brainfiles. Did I hear someone say hypocrite...