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- AGA.svdriver
-
- © 1994 by Andreas R. Kleinert.
-
- FREEWARE. All rights reserved.
-
- Version : 1.9
- Release Date : 29.06.1994
-
-
- Requirements
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - OS V3.00+ (V39)+ and its libraries
- - 68020+
- - superviewsupport.library V1+
-
-
- Description
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- AGA.svdriver is an external Library-Module for the superview.library V3+.
-
- It supplies functions for V2+ SVObjects to allow object-orientated
- displaying of graphics on AGA Screens.
-
- The internal graphics interchange format is the same as supported by
- superview.library V3+ in connection with V2+ SVObjects, which can be
- used by external custom programs.
-
- AGA.svdriver is identical to ECS.svdriver, except to the "chunky pixel"
- support and other features, which have been realized with V39 functions
- here.
-
- This Driver supports the following :
-
- Dimensions Depth Type
-
- [AGA] [AGA] BITPLANE
- [AGA] 8 ONEPLANE (Chunky Pixel)
-
- ONEPLANE 24 Bit Graphics (RGB 3x8-ONEPLANE) will be dithered to 8 Bit.
-
- Autoscrolling of Screens larger than the actual display is supported :
- Just move the mouse to the boundings !
-
-
- Author
- ~~~~~~
- Andreas R. Kleinert
- Grube Hohe Grethe 23
- D-57074 Siegen
- Germany
-
-
- Known Bugs
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- This bug only concerns to File-Formats in which pictures with only
- 2 Colors may be represented as Chunky-Pixel data, e.g. :
-
- - 2-Color GIF87a/89a
- - 2-Color IMG
- - 2-Color BMP
- - 2-Color FBM
-
- This bug does not occur always : Whether you get it or not depends on
- the actual width of the image in the file.
- For example a 354x410x1 graphics from a BMP File will as well cause
- problems as a 694x136x1 FBM graphics file.
-
- What do these have in common ?
-
- - they are written to the RastPort via WritePixelLine8(), using
- a TmpRas-Structure with attached BitMap
- - they will both be displayed on a Screen, which actually has a larger
- width than the display itself (320 <-> 354 and 640 <-> 694), so
- that the Autoscroll-feature has to be used
- - both width values do not exactly end on byte-, word- or longword-
- boundaries
-
- Due to the fact, that all other graphics, with the same width and
- height, but other color-depth and/or bitplane organization (no
- WritePixelLine8() needed) are displayed correctly, I believe
- that this is the result of a bug in the OS V39, maybe also V37.
- Perhaps WritePixelLine8() is not fully free of bugs yet.
-
- Try using other programs with some "critical" graphics and I guess,
- that you will get the same results like with this SVDriver :
-
- - either the system will slow down very much (silent crash)
- - or after closing the display and freeing all memory : problems
- with the memory list will be reported by exec (Recoverable or
- DeadEnd Alert) when using "avail flush"
-
-
- History
- ~~~~~~~
- V1.9 (29.06.1994) :
-
- - now attaches ViewPortExtra structure to Screens, if possible, so that
- hopefully display-speed will increase
- - now opening interleaved Screens, when displaying ONEPLANE graphics
- for speed reasons
- - also, no longer intermediate CopperList-Updates are allowed for the
- display screen
- - one of the optimizations done in V1.8 might have caused slowe
- 24 Bit display instead of faster (not sure). Now we go the safe way,
- but still somewhat optimized.
-
-
- V1.8 (11.06.1994) :
-
- - now at least requires 68020 CPU
- (there are perhaps no AGA machines out there, which have none).
- This should speed up the 24 Bit "dithering" routines.
- Startup-Code is still compatible to 68000, so that an installation
- on 68000 systems will not cause a crash, if running V37/38.
- - made all variables 32 Bit-wide
- - did some optimizations
- - fixed small bug in ColorMap routine :
- creation of RGB-values resulted in a mask of 0xFFFFFF00 instead
- of 0xFFFFFFFF (although there's not really a mask used)
- - removed some V37-code, which was never executed
-
-
- V1.7 (22.05.1994) :
-
- - fixed small bug in 24-Bit-Support :
- our single temporary bitplane line always had a PlaneDepth of 24,
- so that 16 planes were wasted useless :-(
- Now this memory is saved and also speed may increase.
-
-
- V1.6 (07.05.1994) :
-
- - use of SAS/C V6.51
- - use of new "superviewsupport.library" V1
- This saves some space again (here : ca. 400 Bytes).
- - version still reflected 1.4 instead 1.5. Now we're at 1.6 :-)
-
-
- V1.5 (30.04.1994) :
-
- - fixed small bug in memory delocation (when multiply called)
-
-
- V1.4 (18.04.1994) :
-
- - improved internal "regular case" BitMap-to-BitMap routine
- - added code for dithering 24 Bit RGB-Oneplane pictures
- (is quite slow, but results in good pictures)
-
-
- V1.3 (25.03.1994) :
-
- - slightly improved internal BitMap-to-BitMap routine
- - removed bug-fix from V1.2, now using BMF_DISPLAYABLE flag, no matter
- if this will help or not
-
-
- V1.2 (19.03.1994) :
-
- - tried to fix bug with strange-sized (temporary) bitmaps like 694x136 :
- now uses size = (((x + 15) >> 4) << 4) for determinating the
- desired width.
- This is not completely fixed yet (seems to be an OS bug ...)
-
-
- V1.1 (09.03.1994) :
-
- - first version
-
-
- Copyrights
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- Some of the mentioned names or products above may be copyrighted by
- companies or trademarks of companies.
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