FBlit opensourced

[utri007]

It seems that FBlit is opensourced. That is nice as it is very usefull program.

It does significant diffrence for chip ram usage and speed. It makes games like Napalm screen scrolling smooth with hires screen modes.

I would like to know what are future plans with this? Long time ago I heard that original author has a plan to make specifig fblit screenmode, wich could be choosed from requester. Anything like that?

Would it be possible to merge ftext and fscreen to fblit?

https://github.com/SamuraiCrow/fblit

[utri007]

I have tried Como's graphic library, it doesn't replace FBlit. With FBlit is possible start almost all chip ram hungry games from Workbench as it left almost all chip ram useless.

Some 200kb chip ram * is used with FBlit, Cosmo's Graphics library doesn't do that. It also has annoying color problem. I can use FBlit gui to choose apps and games to used with FBlit, this is not possbile with replacement library.



*I have 640x512 8bit Workbench screen with background image.

[utri007]

I didn't test a much. Just noticed that it usea a lots of chip ram, has wrong colors in directory opus and it doesn't speed up simcity2000 like FBlit does.

[utri007]

There is three main reasons to use FBlit

1st Workbench is faster with it, if you configure it so.
2nd With FBlit workbench uses chip ram very little. Usefull with many chipram hungry games
3rd Some games like SimCity2000 and Napalm are quite playable with hires interlaced screen mode. Scrolling is much faster and ofcourse they must be configured to FBlit.

None of these happen with Cosmo's Graphics library

[utri007]

I haven't tested Cosmo's graphic library with my RTG system, but even if it works, it is not that essential as with AGA systems. AGA with 256 colors and 640x512 is bog slow, without FBlit it is unuseable. Speed difference is something like 4x faster with FBlit. I don't have any speed problems with my Spectum 24 or xPert Merlin with standard Graphics library.

[utri007]

Thanks all involved

Does anyone know current situation of FBlit? Is it developed know when it is open sourced?