Short: How to make the best out of 2MB Chip-RAM Author: granada@a500.de (Ruediger Engel) Uploader: granada a500 de (Ruediger Engel) Type: pix/wb Architecture: generic Hardware used: - Amiga 1200 Desktop, 2MB Chip - Blizzard 1230/IV, 32MB Fast - MAS-Player w/ some loud speakers connected :) - CNet-Card to get the A1200 online through my A4k - A 15"-Multiscan-Monitor for reasonably good display-quality Software used and/or shown in Shot: - AmigaOS 3.9 - Workbench 2000 1.8 - Amplifier w/ masmpeg.device - AmIRC - AWeb - Myzar for rc5 - Dynamite for the fun The screenmode used is Multiscan Full Overscan wich equals to 656x495 pixels in 6 bit (i.e. 64 colors) Please, feel free to laugh at me, call me a Windozian or whatever, but: this _is_ a good way to save Chip-RAM on your A1200. All my programs run on one single screen and with Workbench 2000 I can iconify and de-iconify them just like under Windows. This saves valuable Chip-RAM, the speed is acceptable with 64 colors and the quality of dithering and the colores is also quite well in AWeb. If you've ever worked with Windows 9x or 2k, you'll know what I mean. This is really not the same as having screens (believe me, on my A4k with its graphics card, I _do_ use screens since I love having screens), but as mentioned, an acceptable compromise t o reducing Workbench-colors to 16 or even less just to have some memory left for the other screen where the browser is runnning on. I even have a backdrop-image on my Workbench and still enough Chip- RAM for kinds of different programs that still depend on Chip-RAM.