walter_J64bit Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 (edited) Could games be patched to use the Blitter to help out with game lag? Edited January 26, 2015 by walter_J64bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 It's possible that blitter may speed-up some graphic operations, and even some memory transfers. But it is not so big speed-up, Better said, not so big in compare to well coded blitter-less SW. Many other things can be improved in existing games. Just try for instance Wings of Death - it responds very fast on commands, regardless using blitter or not. Related with question: why no blitter in TT ? Simply because it's CPU can do all it faster. I don't think that anyone will start to "patch" games in this way. Yes, Zamuel_a did Pacmania and Giana, but that was much more than some "patching" . Patch is just not right word for game improving, I think . As I know it is tailor term, and means fixing holes on clothes Correct me English experts . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 (edited) It's possible that blitter may speed-up some graphic operations, and even some memory transfers. But it is not so big speed-up, Better said, not so big in compare to well coded blitter-less SW. Many other things can be improved in existing games. Just try for instance Wings of Death - it responds very fast on commands, regardless using blitter or not. Related with question: why no blitter in TT ? Simply because it's CPU can do all it faster. I don't think that anyone will start to "patch" games in this way. Yes, Zamuel_a did Pacmania and Giana, but that was much more than some "patching" . Patch is just not right word for game improving, I think . As I know it is tailor term, and means fixing holes on clothes Correct me English experts . I see, it's like the 3DFX Video Cards back in the day, games need be fixed to run with it. Even a small speed-up would help in some games with bad lag running on un-modded Ste. The TT just use brute force just like modern PC's running older software. Just think accelerator boards, are hard to come by and than you need to have the right motherboard to use them if you can get your hands one, fixing games with bad lag to use the blitter would be welcome in this day and age of STe user's, I think. Edited January 26, 2015 by walter_J64bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 (edited) Patch is just not right word for game improving, I think . As I know it is tailor term, and means fixing holes on clothes Correct me English experts . You are right on. A "patch" is used in clothing to fix a "hole" in something. The connotation that a thing is flawed in some way carries over. A better term for the situation where something is added to create improved performance is "augmentation". You'd say the game was "augmented" to use the blitter. Edited January 26, 2015 by pixelmischief Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 Oh, where can I find "Zamuel_ Pacmania and Giana" I would like to try them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 The effort vs reward is probably not worth it in most cases. And games generally are written with system limitations in mind, so a certain amount of objects will be processed, and memory allocation for stuff like positions will follow that constraint. Possibly there are some games that would benefit and without enormous effort. But I think the scene is more oriented along the lines of just getting games compatible across the range. Of equal benefit might be to have some games esp scrollers modified to take advantage of fine scroll and the word aligned graphics origin that STE allows, but I don't think much of that has happened either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonsunnyboy Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 The later requires a larger engine rewrite and thus quite an amount of effort. Zamuel_A can tell you more as he did this for Pacmania STE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 The later requires a larger engine rewrite and thus quite an amount of effort. Zamuel_A can tell you more as he did this for Pacmania STE.You have a copy of this Pacmania STE? I can't seem to find the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayreon Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 You should be able to search and find it on atari-forum.com ? I haven't been there for a while but there were topics for pacmania STE and Giana sisters STE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qq1975b Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Here it is: http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=27118#p260907 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 Thanks I'll download this when I get home from work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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