Personal Paint 7.3a for 68k bug

[paul1981]

BetterWB I doubt very much uses FBlit/FText as it's a hack which can cause problems in some cases...incompatible I think with the Philosophy of BetterWB.

I love FBlit and FText though, makes AGA speed along nicely on the OS.

[paul1981]

well I got the personal paint issue solved by turning on amiga blitter.

Now after reading the feedback on fblit I am tempted to try it, but it sounds like it does have some compatibility issues... and I hate those. I do have a 40mhz 68040 so it sounds like it would be faster at somethings... but I would hate to have some programs acting all buggy.

You should give it a go, on an 040 @ 40 MHz it will be WELL worth it. I could never get the Include mode on it to configure or configure exclusions either, so I use it in Exclude mode with no exclusions...which basically means it will patch all new screens/programs with FBlit (read the docs well, and make sure you create a config file and that it's actually using it). The only FBlit issue I've ever had, I think was with a game called Mr Beanbag - which runs from Workbench.

[paul1981]

That is backwards. FBlit and FText patch graphics.library so they don't use the blitter anymore.

They are most effective if you have 68030 or later, on an unexpanded a500 for example it would be slower than using the blitter (it may even refuse to install).

I can't see it in betterwb documentation. I'm not convinced that betterwb is better.

Before I had an accelerator for my A1200, I had a simple Fast RAM / RTC card. I didn't use FBlit or FText back then (I don't think it was out then) but I used other programs like FWB or FasterBlitter (something like that) and even that made a substantial improvement with text scrolling (very noticable in Multiview for example) and only on a 14MHz A1200!

I know FBlit is much more sophisticated, one day I might try it on that same config though just to see if it's worth it.