A better 800x600

[Karlos]

HighGFX is pretty quick, especially when you're running FBlit. Here is a video of me running some programs on Workbench on an A1200 030/50 in 1024x768 HighGFX mode

That's impressive. Is that using one of your carefully dithered 16-colour modes?

[Karlos]

Don't forget FScreen and FText too.

Weren't they all assimilated into FBlit at some point?

[Karlos]

Yeah it sure is. The blurriness of the camera hides the dithering a bit, but it still looks pretty neat for 16 colours, especially at that high resolution. Good thing though is if people think it looks okay, then it should look almost as good in 800x600 on an ECS machine.

That was snappy for AGA, it has to be said. I used to use a 16-colour mode with CGX-AGA before I got an RTG card (this was on OS 3.5), which basically seemed to do most of what FBlit did but also allowed RTG software that would work with 8-bit screens to run on AGA. It was fairly quick, but your demo there seems snappier than I remember.

[Karlos]

CGX-AGA was also ppc only if I recall correctly ?

Nope, but it did come with PPC. There weren't any PPC accelerated functions in there (which was a bit of a disappointment). It did modify the allocation of BitMaps and so on to ensure their cache friendliness.