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PPaint 7.3 simply eats Chip RAM for images even on RTG screens. Sure, for 320x200 it is no problem, but 1680x1050 256 colours needs nearly 1.8 MB.

Are you using the mode promotion faeture? ( PROMOTE = 24 in the prfs file ) Is planar on RTG switched on in GUI prefs ?

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Not under OS4 I think.

It would be an extrnal setting to OS4, in the AmigaForever window or WinUAE settings window. Don;t if it works or not, you might be able to switch it off completey.

The main difference between 7.2+ and 7.1 is that they use graphics librar calls to allocate the offscreen bitmap, rather than rolling it's own bitmap, which is not safe todo on RTG and causes many of the OS4 bugs in the older versions.

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Maybe buying if good and have some inspiration+work.

Please relax for a while:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOBuO0niS8o

I updated PPaint through AmiStore. I probably had previous version 7.3a (?) and first thing was to understand that instead of directly updating, the AmiStore update installed an install drawer that should be opened and the Install icon clicked. Then, some of the old files/drawers seem to be left instead of updated/deleted:

- PPAINT.debug (was 2014 version)
- Animations: there seem to be only Animations drawer icon, not the actual drawer
- several old documentation like faq and tutorial in the main drawer, the new documentation seems to be in Documentation drawer
- after deleting the old documentation and old .debug version, my PPaint drawer looks like this:

7.System:> dir work:PPaint/
libs (hakemisto)
H (hakemisto)
fonts (hakemisto)
Colors (hakemisto)
Brushes (hakemisto)
AnimBrushes (hakemisto)
Pictures (hakemisto)
Rexx (hakemisto)
Documentation (hakemisto)
PPaint_Prefs (hakemisto)
PPaint_Icons (hakemisto)
Animations.info AnimBrushes.info Brushes.info Colors.info
Documentation.info Fonts.info Libs.info Pictures.info
PPaint PPaint_Icons.info PPaint.info PPaint_Prefs.info
PPaint_PS PPView Rexx.info


Maybe the install script could delete deprecated files and make sure that the drawers are there if updating an old installation?

Marko

Last edited by blmara on 06-Aug-2016 at 08:34 AM.

@broadblues

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Are you using the mode promotion faeture? ( PROMOTE = 24 in the prfs file )

No. I use PicassoIV GFX card which supports my native resolution only in 16 bit. I could use UAEGFX with no such limitations, but emulation is not yet mature enough (speed, compatibility).

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Is planar on RTG switched on in GUI prefs ?

No.

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It would be an extrnal setting to OS4

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Don;t if it works or not

Doesn´t work... as I told you.

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you might be able to switch it off completey.

Amiga will not boot without Chip RAM.

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Quote: Are you using the mode promotion faeture? ( PROMOTE = 24 in the prfs file ) Quote: No. I use PicassoIV GFX card which supports my native resolution only in 16 bit. I

try

PROMOTE = 16

then

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Nice program, I'll have to grab it sometime this year.

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@broadblues

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PROMOTE = 16

No change in Chip RAM consumption.

Great A-Eon and Andy!

Thank you for your continued commitment and work on the Amiga platform. My X5K is at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA USA today and two of the apps that are front and center are PPaint and SketchBlock.

Thank you,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

Thanks Bill, wish I could have been there, but non-Amiga business has kept me in New Zealand this time around. I will be at AMIwest in October.

Thanks for flying the Amiga flag.

TrevorD

PS posted from my AmigaOne X5000 while listening to Van Gelis via TuneNet

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