CyberGraphX 4.0 or Picasso96?

[Kronos]

The CV64 DOES support dragging.

[Kronos]

Karlos wrote:

Something that *absolutely* should have been introduced but never was, is a truecolour graphics.library clone that uses absolute colour definitions instead of pens.

What you say ? That stuff has been available for over 2 years  :-D  :-P  :-o  :-D

(And if I'm not mistaken we may also have some more accelarition)

[Kronos]

@jahc

No.
But AFAIR it is on the "planned" list for OS4.1 or 4.2.

@Karlos
Both P96 and CGX patch graphics and layers.library but to get real 24bit
you would have to completly rewrite both and a great portion of intuition too.

Wasn't really worthwhile at times when 16/24 bit were only useable up to
640x480 (Picasso2, original CV, Picollo/Spectrum), wasn't really worthwhile
when the market went to a point where 1000 units are considered alot.

But there was no way around such a rewrite for MorphOS and AROS, and
thats why they have it (I'm quite sure AROS does have something to allow direct
24bit).

[Kronos]

@Karlos

Remember the EGS-System ? It did just that, and it even had a Workbench-
replacement, but it flopped the momemt when simpler to use systems like
the one the came with the Picasso2 (nothing to do with P96) took over.
These were less powerfull, but alos allowed to just code for normal AOS,
and have the 24bit-stuff deactivated easily when used on OCS/AA.

Heck I even remember running EGS on my plain A1200 (60MB HD), what
a bugger  :-o

@bloodline
I'm on the list (just lurking).
Tried that once but miserably failed when I realized  that I couldn't link
all that C++ code I brought through the compiler in sweet and tears  :-x

Shouldn't be a prob today, but I have eversince decided not to release
anything that is too beta to be usefull. Maintaining 2 versions just for the
sake of it doesn't make me go WOW either  ;-)

Probraly gonna try a oneoff port in mid 2004 when things have matured
a bit.