>Here is the advice: "There's only one piece of essential software
>for the 2300 and that's SpeedDoubler 8 which provides a dramatic
>speed boost to your 2300.
>
>Bearing in mind that this advice is from long, long ago, do you
>still use & recommend this utility?
>I'm probably going to run the Duo 2300 20/1.1G with the MacOS 8.1
>that is already on it.
IMO it's indispensable to a PPC Duo, or just about any 603 Powermac.
It still helps the 2400 a lot as well, and I held off upgrading to OS
9 until I'd hacked the SD8 extension into loading under that OS
(where it works fine, btw, at least for the "Faster Emulation" and
associated UI tweaks which are all I enabled).
The "Faster File Copy" and other tricks are progressively less of a
win on 8.0 and later versions of the OS - I turned them all off
around 8.1 or 8.5, but kept Faster Emulation. If you're unconvinced,
borrow a copy to try out, and I'm sure you'll find it worth buying.
>Q2. GrayAMP is recommended as the minimalist MP3 player for low,
>low end PPCs like the 2300. Is version 1.2 the latest or best
>version tu use? It is freeware, but I've not being able to get a
>copy. If it IS freeware, and it is okay to send it, could you
>kindly send me the file? It is around 230k in its .hqx form, I
>think.
I'd vote strongly for SoundApp instead of GrayAMP anyway - better
interface, better playback quality, supports more formats, also
freeware. It should work as well as GrayAMP on the 2300 (either way
the machine won't be able to do much else at the same time).
--
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