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- fbl - fASTERblIT 3.3
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- Copyright (C) 1993 Arthur Hagen
- All rights reserved
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- This tiny program will speed up blitter processes just like FastBlit,
- for any Amiga, but with a few additional bonuses:
- With KickStart 39.xx or lower, the WaitBlit routine used by the system
- will be replaced by a routine that doesn't slow down the blitter that
- much while busy-looping.
- With KickStart 37.xxx, the WaitTOF, WritePixel, ClearEOL, ClearScreen,
- SetAPen, SetBPen and SetDrMd routines will also be replaced with more
- optimised routines.
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- Should work for ALL Amiga's, except for the earliest A1000 and
- A2000a model computers (which suffers from a bug in the Agnus chip).
- Among things that should be notacibly faster with fbl installed is
- menu browsing, WB updating, text scrolling and benchmark programs that
- tests the gfx capabilities (like AIBB). And if you have problems with
- "snow" when using the A2091 controller with full SCSI DMA, fbl might
- help somewhat.
- To use this program, run it from CLI, or just add it to your startup-
- sequence or user-startup.
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- Caveat: If your system runs on chip-mem and/or slow-mem only, fbl
- *can* be dangerous to use, since the blitter then will have full
- priority over the CPU, and when showing screens with high resolution
- and/or many colors, the CPU can be prevented from memory access for
- too long, and interrupts can crash. If you still want to run fbl, use
- the keyword "SLOW", i.e. "fbl SLOW" (case sensitive). This will just
- install the graphics.library patches, but not turn on the blitter
- priority.
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- Changes since last version (3.1):
- Some code enhancements. Should be safer, and might even work on
- old A1000 and A2000a machines.
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- This little thingy is ofcourse PD, but if you REALLY like it,
- you can send me your sister as payment.
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- Enjoy,
- *Art
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