AIAB JIT v1.2 - Assembled by Jaybee 17/06/01 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ NB: This archive was intended for use with the AIAB archives! Whats It All About.....now? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With a new WinUAE release finally upon us, incorporating the highly anticipated JIT CPU engine, I decided to knock together this little package that basically takes advantage of all that extra speed - in other words, just adds a bit of unnecessary eye-candy to the Workbench. Anyway, in this pack you'll find: - Birdie - Used to add bitmaps to Window borders, which can look quite nice if you choose a suitable image (which isnt the case here...). - Patterns - Three more patterns, intended for (unsuitable) use with Birdie, but can be used for backgrounds if you want... - GUI Presets - Two VisualPrefs GUI presets which make heavy use of bitmap images. Both are downloaded from Aminet, so poke around there if you fancy some more. - MCP Settings - An updated MCP.config, that just switches on solid window moving and sizing. Its not *that* quick (compared to Windows/Linux), but it certainly demonstrates the speed of JIT, which to be honest is all this pack is supposed to do ;) - MM Trans. - Enables transparency in MagicMenu ;) - SysSpeed data - A SysSpeed 'module' of my PC running WinUAE 0.8.16. Dont forget that you'll need to load it into SysSpeed first ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: ~~~~~ - This add-on pack was thrown together very quickly, its not really been tested ;) - To switch between the two new VisualPrefs GUI presets, just double click the respective icons in the Prefs/Presets folder. - Its simply intended for demonstrating the massive speed increase that JIT compilation offers. Please dont email me expressing a disliking towards the particular bitmap set/colour scheme/birdie options I've chosen - I know they're a bit garish...I just didnt have time to convert a LightStep/Enlightment theme myself, but if you want to do it, feel free! But send me what you've done! - Theres no 'way' of 'uninstalling' this add-on (at the moment). However, if you get fed up of the bitmap set/colour scheme, you can just re-load the old Visual Prefs GUI presets in the usual manner. Whilst, if you feel Birdie is really slowing everything down too much, comment the 'JIT-Startup' script out of the startup-sequence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Histroy: ~~~~~~~ v1.2 - Updated ENVARC:MagicMenu.prefs using the latest MagicMenu version - Deleted ENVARC:MCP/*.* - this would not work in 'AIABr10c' - Moved the SysSpeed module into the main 'AIABr10c' archive v1.1 - Fixed files containting 'Workbench:' references to point to 'SYS' instead, a-la AIABr10b. - Nothing else ;) v1.0 - Initial release. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Future?: ~~~~~~~~ Hmmm...Dunno, probably more/better backgrounds/GUI presets etc. and possible some over-the -top MUI settings (with backgrounds etc.), although Im reluctant to go down that route... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just extract this zipfile to exactly the same place you extracted the first AIAB.zip file, overwriting any files when prompted. Simple, huh? No? Well okay, imagine AIAB is installed in C:\WinUAE, you would have to extract this archive to C:\ Cya! James Maurice Battle - j.m.battle@bradford.ac.uk - http://aiab.emuunlim.com/