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- Short: Faster chunky output (update)
- Type: util/boot
- Uploader: mlelstv@serpens.swb.de
- Author: mlelstv@serpens.swb.de
-
- AmigaOS knows three functions in graphics.library that output
- chunky pixels to a RastPort: WritePixelLine8, WritePixelArray8
- and WriteChunkyPixels.
-
- The original versions of these routines in the KickstartROM
- are rather slow and have a bug that trashes the chunky source
- buffer.
-
- This patch installs improved versions that are often faster by
- a factor of 10 (on a fast CPU).
-
- -- Requirements:
-
- AmigaOS3.0 or AmigaOS3.1. The WriteChunkyPixels function exists
- only in AmigaOS3.1.
-
- An 68020 or higher CPU.
-
- -- Operation:
-
- The core of the patch are four routines that translate chunky data
- into 1..4 bitplanes and that write only complete words into a bitmap.
-
- For destinations with 5..8 bitplanes the planes are written in two
- passes translating upper and lower nibbles of the source data.
-
- If the destination rectangle is not aligned to words in the bitmap
- the unaligned border words are first converted into a buffer on the
- stack and then masked and copied to the destination bitmap.
-
- The patch utilizes the DoHookClipRects() function of AmigaOS3.x to
- write directly into the destination bitmap, even for layered RastPorts.
- This avoids completely the temporary bitmap you pass to the WPL8 and
- WPA8 functions, but of course programs must not rely on this.
-
- -- Installation:
-
- Add the newwpa8 command directly after SetPatch in your startup-sequence.
- The patch detaches itself from the Shell, there is no need to RUN it.
-
- It is most important that the patch is run before any other patch to
- the graphics system like the CyberGraphics driver that intercepts
- the calls itself.
-
- -- History
-
- 1.0 initial version, used tmprp and blitter, WPA8 and WPL8
- 1.1 new c2p
- 1.2 direct destination writing for aligned rectangles
- 1.3 direct destination writing for non-aligned rectangles, added WCP
- 1.4 bugfix for modulo calculation in WPA8, WPL8
-
- Michael van Elst
-
- (If there are newer versions, they will be available from Aminet)
-