the Immediate Blitter debate i have been having with myself is over - after finishing reviewing the AMOS Professional source code with regard to upgrading the graphics subroutines to use accelerated CPU instead of the Blitter or add an extension to AMOS, i have a shocking announcement.
we were told that Kickstart had integrated the concepts introduced by the FBlit patch. they obviously did not. i was always under the impression that AMOS would be held back by the Blitter bandwidth and that it would be a mammoth task to update, i was wrong, i was expecting to see Blitter routines inside AMOS, but there are none, AMOS is actually 100% system compliant and is probably retarget-able already. it uses the Kickstart graphics library, shock. so i tried an experiment that i should have tried a decade ago.
this has changed everything.
FBlit works extraordinarily well with FxBox giving the same super smooth results that the Immediate Blitter setting in WinUAE gives.
i have added FBlit and fblit.library to the floppy distribution and tested, a500 is not accelerated but a standard a1200 with some fast ram has some acceleration - more powerful CPUs make this extreme. i cannot recommend this enough - i have not seen this acceleration in AMOS with any version of Kickstart or AmigaOS.
i will also announce this in the next release as part of the release notes, update the wiki, and update the code to remove the routines in FxBox that limit the graphics speed due to Blitter hogging, as there are now no limits.
https://aminet.net/util/boot/fblit.lha
the Immediate Blitter debate i have been having with myself is over - after finishing reviewing the AMOS Professional source code with regard to upgrading the graphics subroutines to use accelerated CPU instead of the Blitter or add an extension to AMOS, i have a shocking announcement.
we were told that Kickstart had integrated the concepts introduced by the FBlit patch. they obviously did not. i was always under the impression that AMOS would be held back by the Blitter bandwidth and that it would be a mammoth task to update, i was wrong, i was expecting to see Blitter routines inside AMOS, but there are none, AMOS is actually 100% system compliant and is probably retarget-able already. it uses the Kickstart graphics library, shock. so i tried an experiment that i should have tried a decade ago.
this has changed everything.
FBlit works extraordinarily well with FxBox giving the same super smooth results that the Immediate Blitter setting in WinUAE gives.
i have added FBlit and fblit.library to the floppy distribution and tested, a500 is not accelerated but a standard a1200 with some fast ram has some acceleration - more powerful CPUs make this extreme. i cannot recommend this enough - i have not seen this acceleration in AMOS with any version of Kickstart or AmigaOS.
i will also announce this in the next release as part of the release notes, update the wiki, and update the code to remove the routines in FxBox that limit the graphics speed due to Blitter hogging, as there are now no limits.
https://aminet.net/util/boot/fblit.lha