Making ShapeShifter video drivers work with version 3.11 instead of 3.10

[motorollin]

I don't get it. I just tried the CardTrickEVD from Aminet with ShapeShifter 3.11 and it worked ok. So what does this patch do?

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moto

[Flashlab]

Some benchmarks: Topic

The point of the CardTrick patch is to make the blitter support work with 3.11. This makes a huge difference in speed.

[motorollin]

I understand the point of the CardTrick patch. I meant what is the point of the modification made by Piru since it seems to work fine in ShapeShifter 3.11 for me.

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No disrespect intended to Piru - I just want to understand what his modification does.
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moto

[Piru]

@motorollin

I meant what is the point of the modification made by Piru since it seems to work fine in ShapeShifter 3.11 for me.

Read the CardTrickEVD.guide about "Blitter acceleration support"

For the lazy:

CardTrickEVD activates these acceleration routines as well. This requires applying a few run-time patches to ShapeShifter's code because the current EVD interface does not offer this feature yet. CardTrickEVD 1.2 supports the release versions 3.6 to 3.10 of ShapeShifter. Others will work too, but not be accelerated.

Note: ShapeShifter 3.11 doesn't have the acceleration with the original.

My patch enables the acceleration for 3.11 aswell.

[motorollin]

Understood. Thanks for clearing it up for me :-)

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moto