I've put a a short webpage containing suggestions aimed at getting CLOANTO'S Personal Paint 7.1 up and running under AmigaOS4.0-Pre:

page here.

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@vortexau

Excellent work

Modified those settings indicated, also had to remove line 25 on the startup-1 set to get it working. Mine is 1024x768x256 now.

My favourite bitmap on the Amiga, thank you!

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@vortexau

Nice work, but should

Quote:

If you can change screens via the Top R-Hand selector

be

"If you can't change screens via the Top R-Hand selector"

i.e. if you can't use the gui then you have to edit the preferences files?

Wish I'd had this when I installed PPaint on my AmigaOne - it would have saved a LOT of grief

@RedMelons

No! I'd still advise to click-through to Workbench and examine the PPaint Prefs files (in the PPaint directory) with a Text Editor! You'd want to be certain that the changes have been properly SAVED.

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@vortexau

http://www.33throwdown.com/images/33main.gif

( 10 minutes in ppaint on os4 - needs a lot of work I guess but shows what can be done quickly ).

@vortexau

Very useful, Thanks!
I wish I had found this before I set it up on my machine.

Since I use a widescreen monitor (1280 X 768) I also had to
select "Use Square Pixels" to correct the circle tool from
making ovals.

I really only need it myself as a DPaint replacement, for
making image structures. Nice to have the option to save
in that format!

LyleHaze

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Hi!

My PPaint still doesn't work correctly. Opening the screen is not a problem,
but I have trashed toolbar and image. The image seems like a mempeeker display.
I have pre-rel.2

Lazi

@vortexau

Thanks for the tip. I will try it out when I get some time.

TrevorDick

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@vortexau

Very nice tut as I was having trouble getting PP set up right.

One more thing you should add & thats the BLITLIBS setting in Startup_1.set. I believe it should be set to 'personal_68020_blit.library' found in the PPaint/Libs directory on the CD. I was getting a corrupt toolbar until I changed it to 020 from 060.



@Lazi

Check your BLITLIBS setting for proper cpu version & see if your problem is/was the same as mine.

Welcome to AW.

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@sundown

I removed a stupid line from my Startup_*.set file, ppaint just poped up whit errors, saying some thing about line # bla bla

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@sundown

I changed the blit.library, but I am still having the same problem as Lazi (toolbar corruption).

@PEB

Ok, I've got one screen mode (800x600) that shows a corrupt toolbar. If I toggle the menu bar off/on (F10), the toolbar cleans up. You can also try toggling the toolbar off/on with F9. See if that works for you.

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@sundown

No success, I'm sorry to say.

@NutsAboutAmiga

Could have been a path that was set wrong.

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@sundown

Thanks for the suggestion! The 680x0_blit.library alone cannot solve the problem.
It can be customizable, whether PPaint use the system's blitting functions or
direct use of the custom chips' blitter.
You can disable the custom chip related blitter functions in the
Settings menu/Graphics/Blitter tab.
You can set this even in the prefs file, because this is the last param of the
BLITLIBS= variable.

BLITLIBS = "personal_agnus_blit.library", "personal_68020_blit.library", 0

The last 0 means, system friendly blitting!!!

Wow! Ppaint is working perfectly under A1! Yesssss!

@vortexau

Please put this info to your tutorial page.

Lazi

@Lazi
I agree that the trailing '0' is important, but my own line is:
BLITLIBS = "personal_agnus_blit.library", "personal_68000_blit.library", 0
That would indicate that the version of 68x may not be crutial?

Still rendering speeds on my A1+PPaint aren't exciting!!! But back on the A2000/060 I was working in 800x600
screenmodes.

CLOANTO introduced their own software-based functions when the arrival of 68040 and 68060 processors made it
possible to increase operations speed past the limitations of the original PAD, and successors.
The arrival of graphics cards for A2000/ A3000/ A4000 models made this still more necessary as the standard
classic Amiga custom chips functions are largely ignorred in these instances.

Its mostly because of this that late versions of PPaint can be coaxed to work on OS4.0

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One further thought! I'm using a Radeon 7500 and, as can be seen from the screenmode requestor,
()
this is using 8bit screens for the PPaint screen resolutions. I wonder if the later, and greater, model graphics cards
can STILL output 8bit screens? It may be that current cards can not do less than 15/16bit . . . .

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@Lazi

That 0 on the end fixed it for me too. Thanks!

@vortexau

Quote:

BLITLIBS = "personal_agnus_blit.library", "personal_68000_blit.library", 0

Amazing! That's all it took to clearup the tool bar and "canvas".

Before, I made that change had a toolbar with no tool images and the "canvas" was a blur of coloured steaks, almost like the video resolution was completely out of wack.

Seemed to work fine in EUAE.

@vortexau

Quote:

I agree that the trailing '0' is important, but my own line is: BLITLIBS = "personal_agnus_blit.library", "personal_68000_blit.library", 0 That would indicate that the version of 68x may not be crutial?

I tried it with 68020 and the toolbar icons and edit area were corrupted. It looks as though 68000 is necessary.

Regards
Roy Leith

@vortexau

I copied the PersonalPaint 7.1 directory from my A3000T to my AmigaOne. It worked without any changes. I still want an OS4 native version, ofcourse.

Kind regards,

Dennis