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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: runequester on April 04, 2011, 06:25:17 PM
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so I had set up Fblit... I thought.. and was curious why people talk about it so much, when there was no gain whatsoever in performance.
Then last night I realized I had put it wrong in the startup-sequence. Strangely, it didn't bug out, but now that its corrected, its visibly snappier. Good good stuff :)
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It is huge performance increase. After that you get smooth screen scrollin in hires modes, games like Napalm and Simcity2000 feels like different games.
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so I had set up Fblit... I thought.. and was curious why people talk about it so much, when there was no gain whatsoever in performance.
Then last night I realized I had put it wrong in the startup-sequence. Strangely, it didn't bug out, but now that its corrected, its visibly snappier. Good good stuff :)
Install FScreen and FText too and watch her fly! :)
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I've never tried Fscreen (didn't know it existed) but do like fblit and ftext. Just having a few problems which I've mentioned elsewhere.
With Fblit you can use wbctrl to store icons into fastram. It helped free up a lot of my chip ram when I had lots of dawers open
I get the best speed when I use Blazewcp, Newwpa and Speedychip.
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I've never tried Fscreen (didn't know it existed) but do like fblit and ftext. Just having a few problems which I've mentioned elsewhere.
With Fblit you can use wbctrl to store icons into fastram. It helped free up a lot of my chip ram when I had lots of dawers open
I get the best speed when I use Blazewcp, Newwpa and Speedychip.
Instead of wbctrl you can try IconBeFast or if you are feeling brave PeterK's new icon.library.
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I think I tried iconbefast. It caused graphical corruptions on all the icons (as mentioned elsewhere going to try and fix that next time I have an amiga session)
I just tried to find fscreen on aminet but can only find blit and text
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fscreen can be a bit crash prone. but it's a nice speedup when it works.
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What does Ftext do ?
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ftext is like fblit but for fonts. Basically makes fonts load up faster.
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and in fast ram I believe.
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ftext is like fblit but for fonts. Basically makes fonts load up faster.
something easy to add in the startup-sequence?
Any incompatibilities with 3.5? (trying to be forward thinking here) :)
Thanks!
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put ftext on the next line after fblit.
Should have no compatibility issues. I didn't have any on 3.5 and now on 3.9 and still don't
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Sweet, I'll download and try it out tonight :)
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http://www.tpec.u-net.com/files/fblit373xms.lzx
http://aminet.net/util/boot/FText.lha
http://www.grey13.com/files/fscreen021ntta.zip
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Not sure but the fblit on aminet appears to be a newer version
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Will FText help with scrolling speed in Shell/CLI? This is especially painful on RTG.
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Will FText help with scrolling speed in Shell/CLI? This is especially painful on RTG.
Yup... FText increases text output dramatically... :)
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Ironically these patches are to bypass the chipset :-/ my Amiga was basically unusable for Internet work without them :(
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To get the best speed possible out of an A1200 I've found this is the best way to do it is... :)
In the StartUp-Sequence straight after SetPatch :-
SetPatch SKIPROMUPDATES
PatchControl
CMQ060
BlazeWCP
FBlit
FText
MCP
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Speaking of which Franko, I need to test out that kit you sent me, then ship off my 060 to Poland. I've not touched my Amigas since we last spoke...
...been having one to many lazy days as of late. :)
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Speaking of which Franko, I need to test out that kit you sent me, then ship off my 060 to Poland. I've not touched my Amigas since we last spoke...
...been having one to many lazy days as of late. :)
Time to get the finger out then, you lazy person you... :D
Too be honest I'm still RetrObrightning all that stuff I got of eBay so I ain't been doing too much meself... :)
Got a box of 25 UV lamps on eBay for 15 quid and now Scotlands actually got it's own supply of sunshine, dunno if all these lights are good for me health though as I've gone from a peely wally shade of white to a deep red lobster colour...:)
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I'm telling you, urine works wonders!
UV lights... what are you growing over there in Scotland? ;)
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Some software won't work 100% with fblit eg Scala, and some drawing tool functions with Dpaint and Brilliance. I think these program have functions bang the`hardware and require chip ram
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I'll boot up Dpaint and see if it gives me a hassle.