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// -- BLITZFONTS -- //
\X/ ~~~~~~~~~~ \X/
by Hayes C. Haugen
BlitzFonts: makes text output up to 6 times faster. It will increase text
output speeds on 99% of your Amiga programs that use the Topaz 80 font. This
means faster screen updates in: AmigaBasic, Scribble!, OnLine!, Comm, LSE,
uEdit, Ed, Textcraft Plus, all Infocom Releases, V.I.P. Pro, MicroEmacs, and
many, many more! Intuition menus are also sped up. How do you get this
great speed-up? Just type in 'BlitzFonts' from your CLI, or double-click on
it's icon from the workbench. Smart users will immediately put BlitzFonts in
their startup-sequence so that it is there every time they boot. The
installed BlitzFonts takes a meager 3072 bytes and is written in 100% assembly
language for maximum speed.
Benchmarks:
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Blitzfonts | System Text() | Percent increase
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4000 x 80 chars 13.41 secs 78.65 secs 586%
This benchmark is a best-case scenario only; most text output is only
2-3 times as fast due to application (the program your running) overhead. Use
the 586% speed increase as a comparison, though I don't believe you can do
generalized text output any faster on the Amiga. BlitzFonts is completely
transparent to the user, the programmer and the program (even copy-protected
ones). BlitzFonts still allows the system text routines to work with custom
fonts. If for some reason, a program will not run with BlitzFonts (I have yet
to find one that won't) typing 'BlitzFonts -r' will remove the fast font
routines and restore your Amiga to its normal/slow state.
This program is being offered as ShareWare. Please give a copy of this
version of BlitzFonts to every Amiga owner you know, and feel free to post it
on any electronic bulletin boards or networks, or include it in any public
domain/ShareWare compilation that sells for $8 or less (so long as you keep
this notice and BlitzFonts together and unmodified.) When you use BlitzFonts
and realize how much better your life truly is, send a $10 or more contribution
to me, the author, at:
Hayes Haugen
11303 South Dogwood Lane
Edmonds, WA 98020-6168
In return, you will receive a disk with the latest version of BlitzFont