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- From: fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: C2P
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 17:24:36 GMT
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- Sven Steiniger (ss37@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de) wrote:
-
- : Hi Everyone !
-
- : I have several questions about c2p-converters
- : - what are the fastest ones (ideas, theory, sources) ?
- depends on cpu. 040 cpu only. other cpus mix cpu & blitter.
-
- what means "fast" ? :) no, not a silly questions. 2 possibilities on
- non-040-c2p:
-
- a) the c2p procedure is to end as soon as possible
- b) the c2p may take a while as it is done by blitter, the cpu already
- does other things (this is for games).
-
- for b) there's blitterscreen:
- BLITTERSCREEN sources: http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~fischerj/
- ;)
- you won't need to switch back to 6 planes using that ;)
-
- : - what the hell is a scrambled (maybe spelled wrong) buffer ?
-
- the buffer still consists of chunky bytes, but rearranged in a way
- the c2p routine can do conversion faster. only good for special fx,
- not for games.
-
- : (I have heard this sometimes in this group)
- : and what are his adventages/disadvantages ?
- : - are there any very fast c2p which use a comparebuffer ?
- yes, AFAIK Peter McGavin got most experience data on this.
- AFAIK the routines get very fast when the soure to convert doesn't
- change much.
-
- : - ... anything to this topic
- : I have never written an c2p by myself but I converted and modified
- : converters I found in aminet. All of them do not use fixed plsize and the
- : most are for 8 bitplanes.
- : Are there really fast 6 bitplane c2p-converter ?
- : My actual approachs are (50Mhz 030, OS-conform (except screens of
- : gfxcards), 320x256)
-
- aah 320x256. forget blitterscreen ;) but if you do last conversion pass with
- blitter, you'd still get more speed!
-
- : 8bpls : 45ms
- : 6bpls : 43ms
-
- the thing why 6planes is not much faster is you still parse throug a
- 8bit chunky source. but when it comes to blitter assistance, the
- difference might be more (don't know, just a feeling).
-
- : 4bpls : 30ms
- : These c2p-converter(s) use LONG-writes to CHIPmem.
-
- I wonder why 040/25 is said to do it 4MB/sec c2p but 030-50 is lot slower ?
-
- : Thanks.
-
- : Sven Steiniger
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