FBlit source now open.

[Samurai_Crow]

It's under the MIT license. The portions written in Blitz BASIC are not up but you may fork the assembly portions on my GitHub.

[daxb]

Is there a need of develop new features or bugfixing?

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

It's under the MIT license. The portions written in Blitz BASIC are not up but you may fork the assembly portions on my GitHub.

A link to the files would be nice.

[Samurai_Crow]

I am on vacation until Thursday and typed this with my phone. I will drop the link once I get back home.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

I am on vacation until Thursday and typed this with my phone. I will drop the link once I get back home.

Cool, and have fun

[wXR]

link?

[huepper]

Originally Posted by wXR

link?

Read all ...

[Photon]

lmgtfy (Let me Githubsearch that for you)

[Samurai_Crow]

I got another email attachment from Stephen, the author. I should be able to get that other stuff posted when I get home.

[huepper]

Is it possible to get all that stuff in one archive ?

[Leandro Jardim]

Great news. Someone could tweak it and make it a monitor driver like CGXAGA is. This way it could be configured using the tooltypes method or any other method like MUI, and it would work based on screens, and not task names.

FBlit is a fantastic tool, Commodore should have done a similar API for Kickstart 3.0, and make it work transparently for all programs.

[PeterK]

FBlit depends on tasks which are able to handle blits in FastMem. That's why it uses an include list for tasks that work or an exclude list for those that will fail with FastMem.

Btw, did you fix your FBlit.cfg problem meanwhile ?
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...56#post1026456

[Leandro Jardim]

@PeterK: No, it continues. When I drag the "virtual" icons that DefIcons create, they disappear during the dragging. I guess is because Workbench "ghosts" the dragged icons and your Iconlib "ghosts" the DefIcons too (both are XOR'ed)... But is only a guess.

About the FBlit tasks subject, the idea for the FBlit monitor driver is really to get rid of this list of task names FBlit need to hold. Or, seen from another view, would not be possible to get the task names associated with a screen opened with the FBlit monitor driver?

@huepper: on github is possible to download the entire archive (click Download ZIP). But would be nice a LHA archive on Aminet, too. After all it should belong to there.

[PeterK]

Originally Posted by Leandro Jardim

I guess is because Workbench "ghosts" the dragged icons and your Iconlib "ghosts" the DefIcons too (both are XOR'ed)... But is only a guess.

Ok, it seems you're right.
When I invert the ghosting mask then dragged icons don't disapper any longer with FBlit on WB 3.9. But now they disappear with P96 on WB 3.9. I will fix it ...

About the FBlit tasks subject, the idea for the FBlit monitor driver is really to get rid of this list of task names FBlit need to hold. Or, seen from another view, would not be possible to get the task names associated with a screen opened with the FBlit monitor driver?

How should a monitor driver fix a task that doesn't like CPU blitting in FastMem ?

[Leandro Jardim]

Originally Posted by PeterK

Ok, it seems you're right.
When I invert the ghosting mask then dragged icons don't disapper any longer with FBlit on WB 3.9. But now they disappear with P96 on WB 3.9. I will fix it ...


How should a monitor driver fix a task that doesn't like CPU blitting in FastMem ?

Well, it cant fix the task in the FBlit way, really. Instead, it will simply work in the same way as CGXAGA/CyberBugfix monitor driver, if you want to run a program with them you simply run the task on a screen opened with the monitor driver, and the monitor driver is responsible for patching the tasks that run on it.

What I meant is turn FBlit in a AGA monitor driver and to use the AmigaOS 3.x RTG features to patch the tasks... See the CGXAGA monitor driver again, you can try to load it into memory and open a screen mode requester and you will see the CGX modes are only a "mirror" of the PAL/NTSC modes but with the FastRAM patch.

[PeterK]

Alright, if you know how to do it, then you should write such a monitor driver.
(Btw, the new icon.library is out now.)

[Korodny]

Originally Posted by huepper

Is it possible to get all that stuff in one archive ?

Go to the fblit repository, then click "Download ZIP" at the bottom of the right column.

[Samurai_Crow]

https://github.com/SamuraiCrow/fblit is the link and the Blitz sources are posted now as well.

Originally Posted by daxb

Is there a need of develop new features or bugfixing?

Bugfixing is welcome and this may help to develop better AROS 68k drivers for those with Amiga chipsets.

[ovale]

@Samurai_Crow, I looked at the code briefly looking for a sort of blitter emulator but I was not able to find it. I mean a routine that parses a structure with the same layout of the Amiga registered and performs the blit. I think it is useful for debugging purpose when hitting the metal (read games).
Is it there somewhere in fblit code? Do you know if something like this exists?
Thanks.

[Samurai_Crow]

There are many blit routines in FBlit.library. It patches graphics.library so its routines won't be very helpful for hardware banging without using the equivalent OS functions.