16 January 2019, 07:59 | #1 |
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Picasso 96 driver for ECS/AGA
http://aminet.net/package/driver/moni/Native
It speed up screen and saves chip ram, just like FBLit would do. |
16 January 2019, 11:00 | #2 |
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awesome
Will this be better than using Fblit on my 020/33 A600 ECS...? OD3.1.4 ?
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16 January 2019, 11:15 | #3 |
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From what I've read on a1k.org it's noticably slower than FBlit, but some more tests and comparisons would be interesting!
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16 January 2019, 11:29 | #4 |
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Short test yesteday tells that is about same, when using OS or playing games, like Napalm and Foundation. There is little more chip ram free, with this compared to FBLit.
Wondering if this has any effect to 3D games, for me it seems that it drops down fps with Quake. With FBlit you need to promote app to use it, this is used all the time. It has has pros and cons. |
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cool...might give this a try.
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Thanks Thomas! Very cool!
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It is certainly slower in some operations than FBlit because this is not a hack and does things respecting the OS structures. |
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Really? I thought this is not as advanced driver as CGX-AGA. ---- Nevertheless - at least it is easy to setup. FBlit has gazillion of options, hard to understand without knowing the OS internals. With this OS release use this options, with that release use that options, but if using CGX-AGA this one has to be disabled, and if using PeterK icon.library, set this and that, etc. FBlit configuration is too error prone IMHO. |
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Laszlo 'Pheonix' Torok (developer of MooVid, Savage shapeshifter driver), wrote that a very early version of P96 AGA driver was ready in 1998...
source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...re/PYixqghlhog |
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26 January 2019, 11:01 | #13 |
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I tried this driver on my a600 furia 020/33 OS3.1.4 peter k icon lib 45. when booted i had icons but no txt on screen...under icons and Menus.....need test further though.
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OS 3.1.4 comes with icon.library 45.22, while PeterK's icon.library is v46.4 - so which one do you really use? From the symptoms you describe, it sounds like you are using FText. |
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Unlike FBlit, P96 already replaces all (!) bitmap/bob/... handling functions of graphics anyhow. If there would be "holes" in the system, RTG would not work in first place because RTG bitmaps are not in graphics memory either. The only thing this "driver" does is that it instructs P96 to use the same planar blitting/bob/xxxx functions for native graphics than those for planar RTG systems. |
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@Thomas
Shouldn't you help Mark Sealey instead of replying to me? Or should he now contact IComp to find bugs in P96? |
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Except that, I just can repeat what I had said before: Remove all patches, install a clean system with original components. |
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28 January 2019, 22:21 | #18 |
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Thomas : Any change to get it faster? performance it is noticeable slower than FBLit.
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Why do people here expect P96 to be faster (or just as fast) as Fblit? Did you compare the size of the P96 library + drivers to the Fblit library + executable? Do you understand that P96 has a "Lot" of code to handle PC graphics board (SVGA) chips?
If you are too lazy to RTFM the docs, you can use the default settings for either Fblit or P96. But you might be able to tweak the performance a little if you modify the default settings (at you own risk). The only reason Fblit "Appears" more difficult to configure than P96 is probably because it's too technical for some users. |
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