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Re: Got a 3D card in your Amiga? I need you!
« on: May 14, 2003, 05:07:32 PM »
@Karlos

If you got P96 running, you also got the
CGX-emu running. Problem is that emu isn't
perfect, and only knows about CGX-3.

Back when I used Amithlon, I also had lots
of probs with my system crashing on code
that just worked fine on the A4k (CGX_4).

Redoing that code to use the P96API.library
did help, but also meant that I would have needed
to keep 2 versions of the code.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: Got a 3D card in your Amiga? I need you!
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2003, 03:10:43 PM »
Could be the 2.1-version (which is only
legal for Amithlon and Prometheus-users
afaik), giving back a higher version-number
on the cgx-emu, to get around some progs that
demand CGX_4, but only use functions supplied
by CGX_3/P96.

But I must admit that when I checked that
old source I found out that I hadn't used
the cgx-lib, but just one of the patched/
replaced graphics-library-function that would allways
crash under P96 but worked o.k. on CGX.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else