Short:        AmigaMARK - Benchmark Suite
Author:       Rupert Hausberger <natmeg@gmx.net>
Uploader:     Rupert Hausberger <natmeg gmx net>
Type:         util/moni
Version:      1.1
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

Description
===========
About 1-2 years ago (yr.2000) I started thinking about overclocking my amigas,
but there was no program available to analyise and compare the differences.

So I started to code some litte functions. First I only did different memory things,
testing some different ram-types with these functions. As I used these functions every
day I decided to build a little GUI around them. Then I wanted to know how good
my processor is and how good my drives are. I added more tests...

Soon I noticed that BGUI realy sucks, so I changed the GUI-stuff to MUI.
Again I added more stuff. I saw that this piece of software was growing every day and I
thought that I should make it useable to others. I thought there must be a
way to compare results from different machines and also a way to show them
in a kind of display. So I started to design the module-mechanism and the
colourfull display....

Yea, what to say... end of the story, AmigaMARKS was born :)

Features
========
  - Processor-, Memory- and Harddrive-analysing
  - Graphical comparison of results and modules
  - Module-based saving and sharing of results via Internet
  - Scoring of system-power on a percentage-scale
  - Benchmark-report in TXT-format
  - Individual settings for each test
  - Support of Direct-SCSI
  - Support of NSD-64

  Processor : Bogomips
              BYTEmark
              Dhrystones
              40th Fibonacci number
              FPU query
              libJPEG functions
              IBM-mars cipher
              MD5 checksuming
              MP3 -> CDDA audio convertion [1]
              IBM-serpent cipher
              ZLib functions

  Memory    : CPU-cache read
              Fast-RAM read/write
              Chip-RAM read/write [2]
              Copy memory         [3]
              Initialize memory   [3]
              Allocate memory     [3]
              Hardware-ROM read   [2]

  Harddrive : Read/Write
              Create
              Open
              Close
              Delete
              Rename
              Seek in file
              Set comment
              Set filesize
              Set protection
              Directorie scan

              Read/Write [4]
              Seek       [4]
              SpinUP     [4]


 [1] Needs mpega.library
 [2] Not avail in MorphOS-version
 [3] Some parts not available in MorphOS-version
 [4] Through direct-device-access [direct-scsi]

Requirements
============
  - AmigaOS 3.x /MorphOS 1.x
  -  1 MB Chip-RAM
  - 18 MB Fast-RAM
  - 20 MB Harddrive-space
  - xen.font 11/13
  - mpega.library v2.4 [optional]
  - TextInput.mcc
  - MUI 3.8

Installation
============
  Installation is very simple.
  Just drag the AmigaMARK-drawer where you like, it does not need assigns.

Usage
=====
  Please refer to AmigaMÁRK.guide

Author
======
  ©2002-2012 Rupert Hausberger <natmeg@gmx.net>
  http://natmeg.mooo.com/

Copyrights
==========
  MUI             : Stefan Stuntz
  TextInput.mcc   : Oliver Wagner
  mp32cdda.mp3    : Hans Söllner

  Dhrystones      : Reinhold P. Weicker
  FPU query       : Al Aburto
  libJPEG 6b      : Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
  Mars            : Nevenko Zunic, IBM
  MD5 checksuming : Peter Deutsch, Aladdin Enterprises
  Serpent         : Ross Anderson, Eli Biham, Lars Knudsen, IBM
  ZLib 1.1.4      : Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler

License
=======
  GPL. Please refer to the file COPYING for details.

History
=======
  Please refer to the file ChangeLog for details.