Coder in Blitz Basic wanted

[Cosmos Amiga]

WPATest is a proggy who test some functions of the graphics.library...

... with two big bugs :

1) crash if the WB is less than 640*200
2) results is not good with WinUAE (fast cpu)


I have the source of WPATest, in Blitz Basic...


Who are able to fix ?

[balrogsoft]

Hi.

I can take a look to the code, but i haven't coded BlitzBasic for years, and i don't have a lot of spare time.

[Cosmos Amiga]

Very simple to fix, I think...

[Cosmos Amiga]

no answer from balrogsoft...


So, anyone for fixing ?

[Daedalus]

I'd love to be able to help, but I'm afraid I don't have enough time for my own projects at the moment, let along new ones... Have you tried asking on amigans.net? There might be a few ppl there who can help...

[fishy_fiz]

I can have a look if you like. Where can I find the sources please ?

[Merc]

I could take a look too if you like, just let me know

[mousehouse]

I'm no BlitzBasic expert but PM'd to ask if the code is on Aminet or if it can be put there ;-)

[Cosmos Amiga]

No news from AmigaDave... Oh...


@fishy_fiz
@Merc
@mousehouse

Give me your email via PM, I'll send you the source


From the author, maybe can help you :

"For the percentage readout, according to the info in BlazeWCP (which is all I have to go on), that is maybe related to available chip bandwidth ie. how close the routines get to saturating the chip bus?
I'm really not sure, but if that's the case it may well give funny results on WinUAE.
Certainly does if I run it on a CGFX system with a graphics card, presumably because the routines are writing to gfx memory, not chip RAM, so they can end up with >100% scores."

[Cosmos Amiga]

Always looking for a Blitz Basic coder...

The source is only 706 lines long, so it's simple to fix these 2 bugs...

[bubblebobble]

Can you post the code here? I'll have a look then, and others might have a look too.

[bubblebobble]

So, you want it to work with 640x200 and/or under OS4?

[Cosmos Amiga]

I want no more krach if running < 640x200...
And the correct results with WinUAE !

And you can add a $VER: WPATest v1.1 by Stephen Brookes and your name !!

[bubblebobble]

I need to modify the test slightly, since it uses ~400px resolution.

And what's wrong about the WinUAE results? The program is a little confusing to me.
If I press the "speed" button, it tests something for about 10secs. The other tests, "Layers" and "Mask" are very fast.

[Cosmos Amiga]

>I need to modify the test slightly, since it uses ~400px resolution.

No, just add a requester if WPATest is launched < 640 x 200 : "WPATest don't run with this Workbench resolution. Please, restart at least with 640 x 400"

... or something like that... But no more guru, please !


The "speed" button is the benchmark : and give some out of range results on WinUAE, because the cpu emulation is too fast !

That's the bug to fix !