graphics.library 40.25 beta series - Page 16

altcomputing · 20 February 2011, 22:57

In regards to color representation, I found after updating to b11 that my WB pallette (32colors for speed, looking really nice!, lots of work done to accomplish), gets at least one color computed incorrectly, which makes it look no good at all. Did you change anything related to color mapping?

PeterK · 21 February 2011, 00:41

Cosmos should know the answer concerning the b11 update. I don't use it, but in case that b11 uses the original ObtainBestPenA() function again, then you could try to adjust the color mapping with the Workbench preferences program. There you can choose between "Best", "Good", "Poor" and "Bad" for the color mapping quality. And similar settings are in the WbPattern preferences for the background quality. Try all of these settings and reboot after changing them. No guarantee that "Best" is the best, because that just means that the pens are given away much faster, running out of free pens much earlier too !! So, selecting "Poor" for the icons may leave more pens for the WB-background picture, for example.

Cosmos · 11 March 2011, 06:25

A big issue fixed with this new version !

Excuse-me, the graphics.library is the most complicated library in the whole Kickstart, exec & scsi are joke compared...

@mfilos

I put back IBF_ObtainBestPenA from PeterK, because his function is really faster than the original.
It's hard to get a speedup on OCS/ECS, because chipmem access are very slow (for example : http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=727473&postcount=15)

Anyway, I'll continue to rework this library (only about 30 % done for today) and when 80 % reached,
I'm sure you'll get the same speed with 32 colors than with 16 colors !

mfilos · 11 March 2011, 07:25

Just tested it and it works just fine.
The only problem is the DOpus discoloration

I guess I'll stick with the 42.8b11-01 version for now, or remap DOpus colors... Will see.

Thanks for the hard work my friend.

sanjyuubi · 15 May 2011, 01:46

Are newer versions of graphics.library 020+ only? Beta 8 is working on A600 in winuae, but if i update it with b11 i got constant resets on start (power diode flashing, amiga logo and animation won't appear).It is working when i change CPU to 020.

Cosmos · 15 May 2011, 10:13

The beta 9 is working on WinUAE/A600/68000 ??

Here all the betas released : usefull to find bug(s) !

mfilos · 15 May 2011, 11:51

Thanks Cosmos my friend.
Will test them out

sanjyuubi · 15 May 2011, 16:23

Thanks! I was searching for older betas yesterday, but found only b10. Beta 9 is still working on A600 in winuae with 68000, beta 10 will run only if i set cpu to 020+.

utri007 · 21 May 2011, 02:48

I tried this today

A1200 040/40mhz AGA RemApollo loads it just fine

My desktop amiga was much faster, though less chip ram was availlable than with FBlit.

Quake get almost 2 fps faster? 1,8 fps, Doom also feels much faster 18-20 fps alltime

Foundation and Napalm screen scrolling was smooth as with FBlit

A1200 060/66mhz CGX/Spectrum 16/24

Is this graphics card supported with this library? It should be, because there is new patch of them produced by GVP-M

Couldn't test Quake with AGA screen, just black screen, though voices was ok

Boot to WorkBench also takes considerably longer, not good

Desktop appears quite fast, but it si empty and icns appears after 15-20 seconds. It also uses chip ram for something??? about 200k

I've also some questions, do I need special setpatch with this? Or is setpatch from BB2 ok? Does this benefit graphics card users and how?

Cosmos · 27 May 2011, 16:54

@rafgc

Fixed !

@utri007

>Is this graphics card supported with this library? It should be, because there is new patch of them produced by GVP-M

Where ?

>Couldn't test Quake with AGA screen, just black screen, though voices was ok

Picasso96 or CyberGraphX ?

graphics.library v42.8 beta 11

- Code cleanup
- Special code for the MK2, MK3 & PPC firmware
- R_AddDisplayData optimised
- R_FreeBitMap optimised
- R_GetBitMapAttr optimised
- R_ObtainPen optimised
- R_ReleasePen optimised
- R_TextExtent optimised
- R_TextLength optimised

sanjyuubi · 27 May 2011, 23:19

Hi!

Thank you! I used beta11 (11-02 is older?) and A600 profile in winuae is working now with this library. I will try to burn it in flash chip tomorow.

Is there a software that i can use to compare new graphics.library speed on ECS (i know it won't be much) against original?

mfilos · 27 May 2011, 23:34

Thanks for the update Cosmos my friend!!!
Just tested it and works just fine

Will gief it a better test over the days.

/respect

8bitbubsy · 28 May 2011, 02:29

Will I get a speed boost even with 060 and Picasso II (latest P96 drivers)?
(*wants a fast way to transfer files to my A2000 so I don't need to dig up my A1200 and write ADFs*)

SpeedGeek · 28 May 2011, 15:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by 8bitbubsy

Will I get a speed boost even with 060 and Picasso II (latest P96 drivers)?
(*wants a fast way to transfer files to my A2000 so I don't need to dig up my A1200 and write ADFs*)

AFAIK graphics.library will only give a speed boost on native screens. You can tweak P96 using PVS and Workbench prefs if you haven't already done that. I have PVS set to ignore scroll mask, planes to fast, system to screen blits and Workbench prefs set to other memory. Also with PeterK's icon.library icons are very fast now!

8bitbubsy · 29 May 2011, 01:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpeedGeek

AFAIK graphics.library will only give a speed boost on native screens. You can tweak P96 using PVS and Workbench prefs if you haven't already done that. I have PVS set to ignore scroll mask, planes to fast, system to screen blits and Workbench prefs set to other memory. Also with PeterK's icon.library icons are very fast now!

PVS?

EDIT: Ah, the PVS app that is bundled with Picasso96.
PekerK's icon.library?

EDIT: http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/IconLib_46.4

Also do I need to load these into the kickstart allocated memory space, or do I put them in LIBS:?

SpeedGeek · 29 May 2011, 16:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by 8bitbubsy

PVS?

EDIT: Ah, the PVS app that is bundled with Picasso96.
PekerK's icon.library?

EDIT: http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/IconLib_46.4

Also do I need to load these into the kickstart allocated memory space, or do I put them in LIBS:?

icon.library is a disk based library so just copy it to libs: directory. graphics.library is a ROM based library which is installed with loadresident, loadmodule or OSROMupdate and reboot. You could also make a custom 3.9 ROM with Remus but thats a hardware mod.

PVS is usually installed in prefs directory but will work just about anywhere you like. P96 env: variable changes take effect immediately but tooltype variables need a reboot.

PVS is also available on Aminet. PeterK's icon.library is also included in BB4 but may not be updated as often as Aminet.

utri007 · 31 May 2011, 23:12

Sorry Cosmos, I didn't said it clearly.

My AGA amiga sytem works just fine with library.

Problems are with 060 / Spectrum16/24 /CyberGraphX system.

Seems that some how graphics.library mixed rams of graphicscard and AGA??? If I load it with this system there seems to be quite lot stuff in chip mem?? Usually it is almost completely free ie. 2mb with library 1,5mb?? Icons appear slowly etc.

AGA screen in this setup is native no CyberGraphX screen without PPC cpu

utri007 · 04 June 2011, 21:52

Gives a corrupted screen, colors are wrong

This new one seems to bee more unstable than earlier version

FOL · 05 June 2011, 00:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by utri007

Gives a corrupted screen, colors are wrong

This new one seems to bee more unstable than earlier version

Im getting an odd red tinge randomly on AGA. Its only really noticable when black areas of the screen are visable.
Ive been getting with earlier versions too.

Ratte · 11 July 2011, 12:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cosmos

PCI gfx cards detection now

BlizzardPPC/BVision (no IDs)

CyberStormPPC/CyberVisionPPC (????/??)

GRex/3dfx V3 2000SD 16 (????/??)
GRex/3dfx V3 2000SG 16 (????/??)
GRex/3dfx V3 3000SD 16 (????/??)
GRex/3dfx V3 3000SG 16 (????/??)
GRex/3dfx V3 3500 16 (????/??)
GRex/3dfx V4 4500 32 (????/??)
GRex/3dfx V5 5500 64 (????/??)
GRex/Permedia2 (????/??)
GRex/S3 Virge 86C325 (????/??)
GRex/S3 VirgeDX 86C375 (????/??)
GRex/SiS 6326 (????/??)

Mediator/Banshee 16 (????/??)
Mediator/3dfx V3 2000SD 16 (????/??)
Mediator/3dfx V3 2000SG 16 (????/??)
Mediator/3dfx V3 3000SD 16 (2206/188) => checked by Bamiga2002
Mediator/3dfx V3 3000SG 16 (????/??)
Mediator/3dfx V3 3500 16 (????/??)
Mediator/3dfx V4 4500 32 (????/??)
Mediator/3dfx V5 5500 64 (????/??)
Mediator/Radeon 9200 Mobility 64 (????/??)
Mediator/Radeon 9200 Mobility 128 (????/??)
Mediator/Radeon 9200 128 (????/??)
Mediator/Radeon 9250 (????/??)
Mediator/Radeon 9200SE (????/??)
Mediator/S3 VirgeDX Britek 86C375 2 (????/??)
Mediator/S3 VirgeDX Britek 86C375 4 (????/??)
Mediator/S3 Virge Dataexpert 86C325 2 (????/??)
Mediator/S3 Virge Dataexpert 86C325 4 (????/??)
Mediator/S3 Trio32 Protac 86C732 (????/??)

Prometheus/3dfx V3 2000SD 16 (????/??)
Prometheus/3dfx V3 2000SG 16 (????/??)
Prometheus/3dfx V3 3000SD 16 (????/??)
Prometheus/3dfx V3 3000SG 16 (????/??)
Prometheus/3dfx V3 4500 32 (????/??)
Prometheus/3dfx V3 5500 64 (????/??)
Prometheus/Radeon ?

BlizzardPPC (8512/110) => checked by Mad-Matt

CyberStromPPC (????/??)

GRex 1200 (????/??)
GRex 4000D (????/??)
GRex 4000T (????/??)

Mediator 1200 (2206/32/160) => checked by Cosmos
Mediator 1200SX (2206/40/168) => checked by Gulliver
Mediator LT (????/??)
Mediator LT4 (????/??)
Mediator ZIII (????/??)
Mediator SX (????/??)
Mediator TX (2206/60) => checked by Bamiga2002
Mediator 4000 (????/??)
Mediator 4000D (????/??)
Mediator 4000Di (2206/33/161) => checked by the very lucky wawa
Mediator 3000D (????/??)
Mediator 3000T (????/??)
Mediator 4000T (????/??)
Mediator Z4 (2206/159) => checked by cosmicfrog

Elbox Z4 Zorro Busboard (2206/31) => checked by cosmicfrog

Prometheus (????/??)

Please, give me the Manufacturer and Product ID (in the early-startup/Expansion Board Diagnostic) for all these boards

For the gfx cards : use pciinfo, or ...

OK, lets push the development a bit ...

Manufacturer ID
$089e = ELBOX
Product ID
$0033 = Mediator 4000Di (confirmed, my own hardware)
other known Mediator-Product IDs for PCI-Bridges are
$0031 / $0032 / $0040 / $0048 / $0049 / $0060

best source for PCI-Vendor and Device IDs is
www.pcidatabase.com
take care about Radeons ... not all of them are
VendorID $1002 (ATI/AMD)
Sapphire is using a own VendorID !!!

And some GFX-Cards are using "mobile" Chips .. other DeviceID!

=> 1 billion combinations for pci / radeon ...

21 February 2011, 00:41	#302
PeterK Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: digital hell, Germany, after 1984, but worse Posts: 3,378	Cosmos should know the answer concerning the b11 update. I don't use it, but in case that b11 uses the original ObtainBestPenA() function again, then you could try to adjust the color mapping with the Workbench preferences program. There you can choose between "Best", "Good", "Poor" and "Bad" for the color mapping quality. And similar settings are in the WbPattern preferences for the background quality. Try all of these settings and reboot after changing them. No guarantee that "Best" is the best, because that just means that the pens are given away much faster, running out of free pens much earlier too !! So, selecting "Poor" for the icons may leave more pens for the WB-background picture, for example. Last edited by PeterK; 21 February 2011 at 01:26.

11 March 2011, 06:25	#303
Cosmos Banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: France Posts: 655	A big issue fixed with this new version ! Excuse-me, the graphics.library is the most complicated library in the whole Kickstart, exec & scsi are joke compared... @mfilos I put back IBF_ObtainBestPenA from PeterK, because his function is really faster than the original. It's hard to get a speedup on OCS/ECS, because chipmem access are very slow (for example : http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=727473&postcount=15) Anyway, I'll continue to rework this library (only about 30 % done for today) and when 80 % reached, I'm sure you'll get the same speed with 32 colors than with 16 colors ! Last edited by Cosmos; 16 July 2011 at 18:12.

15 May 2011, 10:13	#306
Cosmos Banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: France Posts: 655	The beta 9 is working on WinUAE/A600/68000 ?? Here all the betas released : usefull to find bug(s) ! Last edited by Cosmos; 27 May 2011 at 16:55.

21 May 2011, 02:48	#309
utri007 mä vaan Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Finland Posts: 1,664	Some testing I tried this today A1200 040/40mhz AGA RemApollo loads it just fine My desktop amiga was much faster, though less chip ram was availlable than with FBlit. Quake get almost 2 fps faster? 1,8 fps, Doom also feels much faster 18-20 fps alltime Foundation and Napalm screen scrolling was smooth as with FBlit A1200 060/66mhz CGX/Spectrum 16/24 Is this graphics card supported with this library? It should be, because there is new patch of them produced by GVP-M Couldn't test Quake with AGA screen, just black screen, though voices was ok Boot to WorkBench also takes considerably longer, not good Desktop appears quite fast, but it si empty and icns appears after 15-20 seconds. It also uses chip ram for something??? about 200k I've also some questions, do I need special setpatch with this? Or is setpatch from BB2 ok? Does this benefit graphics card users and how? Last edited by utri007; 21 May 2011 at 14:51.

27 May 2011, 16:54	#310
Cosmos Banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: France Posts: 655	@rafgc Fixed ! @utri007 >Is this graphics card supported with this library? It should be, because there is new patch of them produced by GVP-M Where ? >Couldn't test Quake with AGA screen, just black screen, though voices was ok Picasso96 or CyberGraphX ? graphics.library v42.8 beta 11 - Code cleanup - Special code for the MK2, MK3 & PPC firmware - R_AddDisplayData optimised - R_FreeBitMap optimised - R_GetBitMapAttr optimised - R_ObtainPen optimised - R_ReleasePen optimised - R_TextExtent optimised - R_TextLength optimised Last edited by Cosmos; 16 July 2011 at 18:12.

20 February 2011, 22:57	#301
altcomputing MC68060@85MHz Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Poland/Wroclaw Age: 38 Posts: 76	In regards to color representation, I found after updating to b11 that my WB pallette (32colors for speed, looking really nice!, lots of work done to accomplish), gets at least one color computed incorrectly, which makes it look no good at all. Did you change anything related to color mapping?

11 March 2011, 07:25	#304
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	Just tested it and it works just fine. The only problem is the DOpus discoloration I guess I'll stick with the 42.8b11-01 version for now, or remap DOpus colors... Will see. Thanks for the hard work my friend.

15 May 2011, 01:46	#305
sanjyuubi Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Poland Posts: 64	Are newer versions of graphics.library 020+ only? Beta 8 is working on A600 in winuae, but if i update it with b11 i got constant resets on start (power diode flashing, amiga logo and animation won't appear).It is working when i change CPU to 020.

15 May 2011, 11:51	#307
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	Thanks Cosmos my friend. Will test them out

15 May 2011, 16:23	#308
sanjyuubi Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Poland Posts: 64	Thanks! I was searching for older betas yesterday, but found only b10. Beta 9 is still working on A600 in winuae with 68000, beta 10 will run only if i set cpu to 020+.

27 May 2011, 23:19	#311
sanjyuubi Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Poland Posts: 64	Hi! Thank you! I used beta11 (11-02 is older?) and A600 profile in winuae is working now with this library. I will try to burn it in flash chip tomorow. Is there a software that i can use to compare new graphics.library speed on ECS (i know it won't be much) against original?

27 May 2011, 23:34	#312
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	Thanks for the update Cosmos my friend!!! Just tested it and works just fine Will gief it a better test over the days. /respect

28 May 2011, 02:29	#313
8bitbubsy Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Norway Posts: 1,711	Will I get a speed boost even with 060 and Picasso II (latest P96 drivers)? (wants a fast way to transfer files to my A2000 so I don't need to dig up my A1200 and write ADFs)

31 May 2011, 23:12	#317
utri007 mä vaan Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Finland Posts: 1,664	Sorry Cosmos, I didn't said it clearly. My AGA amiga sytem works just fine with library. Problems are with 060 / Spectrum16/24 /CyberGraphX system. Seems that some how graphics.library mixed rams of graphicscard and AGA??? If I load it with this system there seems to be quite lot stuff in chip mem?? Usually it is almost completely free ie. 2mb with library 1,5mb?? Icons appear slowly etc. AGA screen in this setup is native no CyberGraphX screen without PPC cpu

04 June 2011, 21:52	#318
utri007 mä vaan Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Finland Posts: 1,664	Civilizatin AGA Gives a corrupted screen, colors are wrong This new one seems to bee more unstable than earlier version

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