Making ShapeShifter video drivers work with version 3.11 instead of 3.10

[motorollin]

@Piru
Your next task is to come to my house and get ShapeShifter working with Mac OS 8.1 on my A4000. How's Saturday?

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moto

[Flashlab]

Hehe Good one Motorollin!

Oh Piru could you put ShapeShifter 3.10 also on your site?

[Piru]

Oh Piru could you put ShapeShifter 3.10 also on your site?

I only have the main binary, so I wonder if that'd be of much use.

[EDIT]

But fear not, the 3.10 archive can be found from http://uae.is.free.fr/UAE-archives.htm

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[Flashlab]

Please do; I'll try.

Edit: Ah thanks! My googling didn't find that link.

[Flashlab]

I must say I'm now playing Settlers 2 with PippinEVD in a window on Workbench on ShapeShifter 3.10 and I'm really impressed with my humble Miggy again. Runs like a charm! God I love my Amiga!

[Flashlab]

I know it sounds greedy but could you do the same thing to the PippinEVD driver Piru? It's by the same author as CardtrickEVD so I guess it's pretty much the same procedure.

[Piru]

Sure. It's slightly different code, but shares many things with the CardTrickEVD. Maybe during the weekend (it's quite time consuming work).

[Seiya]

Flashlab wrote:
I'm trying to get some external video drivers to work with ShapeShifter. I use version 3.11, but the drivers complain that this version is unsupported. How do the drivers know this?

mmh, i tried some esternal video driver with SS 3.11 and they work very well..

[Piru]

mmh, i tried some esternal video driver with SS 3.11 and they work very well.

Some drivers patch the ShapeShifter binary for additional speed (but work slower if the binary can't be patched). Some don't even work unless if they can patch the binary.

What I'm doing here is to patch these drivers to work with ShapeShifter 3.11 that wasn't available at the time the drivers were written.

[Angus]

Was the original settlers released on the Mac? I was just thinking, if its as good as the Amiga version, but in a higher resolution, then it could be a better way to play the game.

Very nice work Piru, by the way.  

[Piru]

@Flashlab

could you do the same thing to the PippinEVD driver Piru?

Give this a try: PippinEVD.bin

Again, the usual caveats apply. Let me know if it works.

[AmigaMance]

I wonder if anyone has done any benchmarking on which of the available drivers is the fastest on CGFX and AGA screens..

[Seiya]

Piru wrote:
What I'm doing here is to patch these drivers to work with ShapeShifter 3.11 that wasn't available at the time the drivers were written.

Good

[Flashlab]

@ Piru

Again it works! Woohoo! Thanks a lot again!

[Piru]

And the spatch version:

PippinEVD-SS-3.11.lha

[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