Some patch for Personal Paint for OS 4.x

Is there some patch for Personal Paint for OS 4.x? and where I can donwload it?

@Templario

To the setpatch line in your startup-sequence,
change it to read;
SetPatch ADDCHIPRAM=2 QUIET

Also, in the program, make sure you turn off
both of these;
Settings->Graphics->15Khz Video
Settings->Graphics->Amiga Blitter

@Templario

Patch? What for? Here it works nice here under OS4.1 upd2

Search in AMINET (biz/cloan) or Cloante website (amigaforever).

BYE

@Templario

Works, you need to edit the config files.

@Templario

Here works O.K.

In the oldie 1200 and the SAMy.

With the SAMy I edit the config files by hand, cause the changes in the program don save it. But the rest works fine.

@All
Yes it works in OS 4 because I use but I want one PPC executable not the 68k.

@Templario

The AmigaForever people have the source code.

@LiveForIt

Yes, and what? the NASA has martians pictures...

@Templario

Whats the big deal about martian pictures?



What I was I trying to point out if you like up to date version of Personal Paint you need to ask Cloanto, they have source code; they are the ones that can update or improve it.

I can tell you from personal experience that writing a paint program is not easy, personally lack the motivation to take on a huge project like that.

Right now it?s all about online games for me

@Templario

The short answer is that there is no PPC version available and unless you can persuade Cloanto to spend 1-2 man-years of development, there won't be one.

@tonyw

what do you base the 1-2 man year assumption on?
ppaint is written in C.

@all
it is also very buggy under os4. even with all tweaks it looks like it works, but if you do any serious work in it you will stumple into a lot of problems.

I had trouble with the aminet download version of PPaint, but I have not had any problem with the version that comes on Amiga Forever 6. I do believe that I have to use the 68000 version of the program. (even though there is a 68020 version included) It is extremely fast.

I changed my "SetPatch QUIET" line to "SetPatch ADDCHIPRAM=2 QUIET" and now PPaint no longer gives an error about starting up in "Memory Save Mode."

@spotUP

As you said, it is buggy and written for OS 1.3? 2.0?

To bring it up to date with OS4.x, it would need a good deal of rewrite. The GUI would have to be rewritten, Reaction windows, classes, any special gadgets, etc. All the Exec and DOS calls have to be checked for correctness and consistency, you can't get away with lazy programming any more. Memory allocations have to be redone, double freeing and closing has to be prevented.

That's why I estimated a year or two (6 months to a year for two people).

@Templario

I did the same as colinw and graffias79

SetPatch ADDCHIPRAM=2 QUIET

and now PPaint no longer gives an error about starting up in "Memory Save Mode."

Also, in the program, make sure you turn off both of these;
Settings->Graphics->15Khz Video
Settings->Graphics->Amiga Blitter

Sometimes I get a crash with DSI error if I fill the screen with a single colour. Apparently this is one of the bugs.

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redfox

the menu-icons on the left looks always buggy.

EDIT:

With Aminet-Version 7.1c it works perfect so far but SetPatch ADDCHIPRAM=2 QUIET doesn't seem to work

@tonyw
Thisis the answer that I want, short and direct, not longest explantion to arrive the same point than a short, there isn't one PPC version available, writing to Cloanto, if they want port their program, I think that they have done, and I want know if they had done, nothing more.

@tonyw

I have working the Personal Paint without your corrections and usggestion, although thank your for it.
I only want for one PPC version.

@LiveForIt

Good picture.

SetPatch ADDCHIPRAM=2 QUIET

Here works fine, btw it's C:SetPatch ADDCHIPRAM=2 QUIET

@Templario

Why don't you write directly to Cloanto and ask to Michele about it?.. Michele is a kind person he will surely answer to your email

@nubechecorre

Thanks for pointing that out. I was copying from other notes.

C:SetPatch ADDCHIPRAM 2 QUIET

is what I really have in my Startup-Sequence

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redfox
Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c Software
MicroA1 + AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2