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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: SetCPU
Message-ID: <10141@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 13 Mar 90 22:37:04 GMT
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In article <12602@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> stan@teroach.UUCP (Stan Fisher) writes:
>In article <66.25f57800@uoft02.utoledo.edu> grx1042@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Steve Snodgrass) writes:

>>I'm sitting here laughing at both of you.  Ever think of using the SetCPU
>>NOPATCH option, that keeps it from changing the WorkBench name?  

>That's o.k., I can handle being laughed at...  I'm just confused if the
>NOPATCH options ONLY function is to keep SetCPU from stuffing Fastbench in
>on the Workbench screen. 

Well, I guess you get to laugh at me now.  NOPATCH prevents any patches from
being installed.  This is, after a fashion, solved in SetCPU 1.6, coming to
a freebee distribution point near you Real Soon Now.

>If so than by all means, that's what I'm gonna do. I just thought there were 
>some other patches made to the Kickstart code like floppy clicks etc. if so, 
>then I'd prefer patching wIconify so that I may benefit by the SetCPU patches.  
>Get it?

That was, basically, the problem.  The basic SetCPU did the things that, to
put it bluntly, made me happy.  The "Fastbench" string started out as an 
indicator that the FASTROM was active, but stayed in because everyone thought
it looked cool.  The noclick was additionally thrown in, but it can cause
problems with some older floppy drives.  And the NOPATCH is too powerful; it
just shuts off the patch manager in SetCPU, even disabling the KEYPATCH
feature, which you have to ask for explicitly -- no good reason for that
behavior.   

I hadn't planned on ever finishing SetCPU V1.6, but I've had so many requests
for various modifications and The Source, I will try to get the final V1.6 out
within a week or two, in source and executable this time.

>  Stan Fisher -  stan@teroach.phx.mcd.mot.com -  asuvax!mcdphx!teroach!stan

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