Thanx for the nice comment. I did test this with 3.2 and had the same result there. The same folder of icons used half a meg of chipram there as well. However I did not test the patch on 3.2.

@@proteque Thank you. Look forward to your future videos.

Interesting. From the name it sounds like it does much of the same, but I have never tried it myself. I hardly used workbench 1.x myself. mostly to start say or change files on floppies etc. So not much desktoping for me those days.

I don't think the icons are in chipmem at all with "icons to fast" enabled. They are only drawn to the display bitmap from fastmem by the CPU. The tiny amount of chipmem being used up opening the new window is probably holding a copy of the Workbench screen contents behind the new window for smart redrawing. Is it possible deficons already covers only keeping one copy of an often used icon in fastram? I have never bothered to look into it. I wouldn't want a 7mhz 68000 crunching a hash and doing comparisons and lookups for every new icon every time it finds one. Unless the hash was actually saved to the icon after it was computed, which would make for a slow opening of windows the first time with a lot of writes to the disk but after that it could be just pulled from a tooltype or something similar.

@@one_b tbh I don't know if showing multiple deficons rather than like I did in this demonstration multiple copies of an icon could be the way to go. I sure will give it a test and find out!

Not sure technically what is the best way this could be, but I did some testing AmigaOS 3.2 behaves like this as well.

@@one_b I did a test! showing 1000 files with a deficon on unpatched AmigaOS 3.1 it uses the same ammount of chipram as showing 1000 copies of an icon.

Thats the optimal route. But on a real amiga without an extra graphics card that is not an option. And on A1200 a gfx card is quite the hack (unlike A2000, 3000 and 4000)

@@proteque if you’re desperate for chip ram you can also switch to an NTSC screen mode

Oh. Sadly I don't have 3.2.2.1 i stalled to test myself, so I havent tried it on that version. Hope someone shows up with a comment with some tip for you.

@@proteque I got it working w/ WB 3.2.2.1.... IconLib_46.4.lha includes a FBlit configuration file in \ThirdParty\FBlit\FBlit.cfg_WB_3.1.4+, without it FBlit is useless. Replace the one in Sys:Prefs/Env-Archive, rename it then reboot. EAB: "FBlit and Ftext installation Help" 🙂

@@dlma7196 great! thanx for sharing the sollution.

I did make an extreme example (1000 icons) to be able to show how huge of an impact it can have. I used to struggle a with this earlier when I liked to make my plain Amiga look nicer with better icons etc etc, and very often had to run demos from cli (the boot without startup sequence) because of it. So for me at least it was a real problem before I got myself a graphics card. It is also easier to run into this problem with NewIcons (which I use on my normal setup, and did use on my normal setup back then). Also maybe not such a big issue anymore. But this patch also helps a lot on internet browsers, making it a much more bearable life using internet on AGA only machines.