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Originally Posted by kolla
This is not about open source or not, that's just something Damien misunderstood. This native driver does nothing more than loading rtg.library and set two env variables, you can do the same in three lines of existing commands in startup-sequence.
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And what about it? Why is that "bad"? It is exactly what is needed to get its job done. What exactly need a tool to do to be "real"? Does it have to be longer than a certain size? Does it have to be more complex? The complexity is already there - in the rtg.library. If "all things are so simple and so obvious", why did it take years for such a tiny tool to materialize?
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Originally Posted by kolla
However, the question raised here was, does this replace FBlit, to which the answer is - not really. For several reasons, one being that it relies on P96 (well, rtg.library),
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Why is "depends on rtg.library" a criteron for "does not replace Fblit"? As in "not conforming to your political agenda"? Actually, it pretty much does everything FBlit does, actually even more than that. It pretty much replaces a majority of the graphics calls and implements blitting though the CPU - so isn't that "real enough"?
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Originally Posted by kolla
another being that it doesn't give fine grained control about what parameters to tweak for individual programs, or for certain hardware and software combinations.
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And you still failed to explain why that is necessary or desirable. In fact, it is just confusing, and people get things parametrized wrong. Why do I need to set parameters in first place, please? Just run the thing, and it works. That's it. What else do you need? The principle is easy to explain "run blitting by the CPU". That is the job, that is what is done. What do you expect to "work better" if there are many settings users just get wrong (and did wrong, in the past). But hey, here you go: Adding "settings" to "such an obvious three line command script tool" should be easy for you, right? Who is stopping you?
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Originally Posted by kolla
With P96 everything is easy, it either works, or it doesn't.
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Is there any indication that "it does not"? What exactly are you trying to say here? Kolla, this is just another example for "complaining for the purpose of complaining", as always. Why don't you finally get up, and - if you like Fblit so much - get the thing fixed. I did my part homework. Sure, an easy exercise, done in 30 minutes, but a successful one, thanks to the work Tobias and Alex invested into this years before FBlit came to be, actually.