Re: Apple II Optimizer released

[buggie@ben15.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

Is this the OPTIMIZER from Quality Computers (1993) by Dan DiMaggio?  I
have it, and it works good, either on IIe or IIgs.  Its created no new
problems --- it either optimizes (recopies files so that they are all in a
continuous section) or, if faults exists, it quits, leaving the hatrd
drive no worse than before.

The one "danger" is that, once started, it must not be interrupted.  A
power line failure could leave it hanging with unpredictable results.

The upshot:  Just use it when there is no danger of power failure!

Steve B


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Richard Bennett (richard.b@genie.com) wrote:
: In article <1998080703425900.XAA00580@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
: cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) wrote:

: > The ShrinkIt archive A2Opti.sdk is a 3.5 800K ProDOS disk archive.

: Which the Apple II community and the author of ShrinkIt recommend against.

: > The disk contains; ProDOS v2.0.3,

: Which is copyright Apple and you need a license to distribute.

: > ProDOS basic,

: There's no such thing? Do you mean BASIC.SYSTEM, which is copyright Apple
: and you need a license to distribute it?

: >  Optimizer can be used from a DOS
: > 3.3 disk (if you wish to put it on such) or it can also be launched from GS/OS
: > or
: > ProDOS 16 - any version seems to work.

: Cough... cough...

: > It's been tested and seems to do a
: > fairly nice job

: I'd want it to do better than "seems to" before letting it loose on my
: hard drive.

: > If the program should
: > encounters a problem, it aborts optimization and quits.

: Leaving your drive corrupted?

: > In such case it
: > appears
: > to leave the media storage device it's attempting to optimizer in the same
: > manner
: > as it was before the program started it's optimization process.

: I'd want it to better than "appears to" leave my hard drive alone in the
: case of an error.

: > Optimizer is
: > fairly fast - depending on the size of the device it's working on and is
: fairly
: > user friendly also.

: Let me see, you point it to a disk and it optimises? How can you not make
: it user friendly when there's only one thing that it does?

: > I misplaced a box of disks containing this program in 1993

: Maybe it optimised the box into non-existance.

: > According to a current A2 user and friend who tested it a few days ago
: and even
: > wrote a short review, which I lost

: Maybe you optimised it?

: > No doubt there will be those that rag on me for releasing it,

: Heh...

: > but, hey...let them rag - I really don't care. 

: Heh...

: > I've uploaded it to Ground and it's also available now from:
: > ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/applegs/Utilities/A2Opti.sdk

: And all other good pirate archives I'm sure.