What is sAVe the Disk?

Overview

“sAVe the Disk 1.5” is a FreeWare system extension (aka INIT) which will alleviate the following problems experienced by owners of 68K AV Macs:

1. Each time a sound channel is allocated (disposed) some information is read from (written to) the file “DSP Preferences”. Applications which follow Apple's recommendations create and destroy such a channel for each single sound they produce and thus slow down while they torture your harddisk. This problem becomes most obvious with games.
2. Some applications, which take advantage of the maximum resolution supported by a QuickDraw printer, mistakenly fall back to the low default resolution of 72 dpi.

Note that version 1.2 of the “System Enabler 088” (and Systems 7.5 and 7.5.1) both fix the Resource Manager as well as the disk cache problems noticeable with older system software. These patches have been removed from “sAVe the Disk 1.5”. Therefore this version should be used only on 68K AV Macs running System 7.1 with Hardware Update 3.0 installed (or plain System 7.5.x), where “sAVe the Disk 1.5” will fix all remaining known bugs specific to the Quadra 660/840AV.

Download sAVe the Disk for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.1 up to Mac OS 7.5

Compatibility notes

Macintosh 660AV or 840AV models. Conflicts with Opcode Vision 3.0.

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II