USE THIS DEMO AT YOUR OWN RISK !!! BY USING BLITZ.DEMO YOU ACCEPT FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSS OF DATA ALWAYS USE A BACK-UP !!! ***************************************************************** * * * BLITZ.DEMO COPYRIGHT (C) 1988 BY MARK HELLMAN * * FAST DISK FORMATS COPYRIGHT (C) 1988 BY MARK HELLMAN * * * ***************************************************************** YOU MAY FREELY DISTRIBUTE THIS DEMO IN THE ORIGINAL ARCED FORM IF UNMODIFIED THIS IS A DEMO AND IS NOT INTENDED FOR NORMAL USE. IT MAY NOT BE USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE THAN DEMOING. DEVELOPERS ARE INVITED TO CONTACT ME FOR USE OF THE FAST DISK FORMATS ON THEIR PRODUCTION DISKS. USERS LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK. EMAIL CIS 71320,761 Smail P.O. Box 1112 Wheatridge, CO 80034-1112 ------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to The B.A.D. Demo, What is B.A.D. ya say ? Well... B.A.D. - Blitz-Amys'-Disks There is nothing more irritating than a Super Computer with SLOW Disks. Relief at last ! B.A.D. is a group of programs that allow you to PERMANENTLY INCREASE THE ACCESS SPEED OF YOUR FLOPPY DRIVES 4 TO 10 TIMES !!!!!!!!! Ya see the problem is that DOS dosn't write the data in the format that the read routines can really use. The solution was discovered while writing a HardDisk Back-up/Restore program ( Available SOON ! ). Everyone I know is always complaining about the floppy's speed so I applied what I found out about HardDisks and BAD was Born ! I decided that the floppy routines would benefit more people than the harddisk routines so I shelved HYPER-BACK for a while and wrote BAD. When the first test was completed I was amazed ! HARDDISK SPEEDS FROM A FLOPPY ? That's right ! At least for DIRECTORIES and ICONS. Actual data reading is the same speed as when you filecopy all the files to a new disk ( There isn't a problem here, the Amiga already SMOKES on data, reading a whole track each revolution ! ) The really neat thing is that the speed increase is permanent- it's not just fast on what you have already read in! B.A.D., for floppies, takes the form of a program that replaces your DISKCOPY command that blitzes the disk as it is copied. There is also a utility program to do a quick relink of your directories and files since as AmigaDos deletes and writes new data through normal use, the Blitz will slowly go away. This is corrected with QuickLink between diskcopies. For you Harddisk Owners there is BlitzHD that will Blitz your harddisk INPLACE and a ChekSum'r that will remove those annoying Checksum errors that accrue, without requiring you to do a format and restore since they are usually NOT caused by a bad sector ( usable on floppies also. ) An upgrade to Hyper-Back will be made available when released for $20.00. As an example I took my Marauder II disk and after deleting the ArkDemo program from it, WorkBench took 22 secs to open the disk. After the Blitz, WorkBench opened the disk in 3.5 SECS !!! Find this hard to believe ? Try out the DEMO and if you like what you see, read the MUST_HAVE.txt file. HAPPY BLITZING... Blitz.Demo Well this is MY answer to Advertizing... Blitz.Demo uses a stripped version of the BlitzHD program to Blitz ONLY THE ROOT DIRECTORY FOR WORKBENCH !!! of the floppy in drive DF0:. Unfortunately this type of processing is not real efficient for floppies so it is somewhat slow and will not Blitz all disks. Please have patience- the results ARE IMPRESSIVE ! If you follow the directions you shouldn't have any problems. ALWAYS USE A BACK-UP !!!!! THIS IS ONLY A DEMO ! IT IS NOT DESIGNED TO HANDLE ALL DISKS ! THIS WAS INTENTIONAL !!! DEMO INSTRUCTIONS: 1>- Format a blank disk. 2>- COPY 1 to 20 small files with Icons onto the disk trying to keep the disk as empty as possible to speed up the processing time. Floppies are SOOOO SLOOOOW ! 3>- Diskcopy your test disk to a blank disk so you can see a before and after comparison. 4>- Copy BAD.DEMO onto one of your test disks and put it in DF0: 5>- Now at a CLI type in `df0:BAD.DEMO' The DEMO will process the ROOT DIRECTORY of the disk and then cause a revalidation of the disk 6>- Now from WorkBench, open the disk. WorkBench will take some time to reorganize ITS' information on the disk. MAKE SURE THE WRITE PROTECT IS OFF so Workbench can rewrite it's own .info file! When it is finished, close the disk's window. Now Reopen the disk...Try it again... Yowsah!!! Now, THE OLD ONE ? ... YCCH!!! And now it's PERMANENT!!! LET ME KNOW WHAT YA THINK OF THE RESULTS, LATER DAYS THE UNKNOWN AMIGO NOTE: Blitz DOES NOT do weird things to the floppy- it simply lays down in a much more orderly fashion what AmigaDos did so poorly to begin with. The result is 100% compatible with AmigaDos and in fact AmigaDos will like what it sees- it will not have to hunt all over the place to get what it needs. P.S. If it runs out of room and you really want to try it on that disk, TRY Filecoping it to a blank disk first. REMEMBER-- IT'S A DEMO ! I'd rather work on the real thing than some wastefull promo demo, wouldn't YOU ?