EGS_Real

Short:        External Screen library for Real3D+EGS
Author:       amiga@cse.unsw.edu.au (Peter Urbanec)
Uploader:     amiga cse unsw edu au
Type:         gfx/3d
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

egs_real.library is a library which implements the Real 3D external
screens on a card which runs the EGS software. It has been written
for and tested on an EGS-Spectrum from GVP, but should work on most,
if not all, EGS systems.

There are many features that make this library so much better than the
egs_r3d.library which could be found in one of the EGS distributions.
Here is a list of what I consider to be important features.

 · It opens a screen of it's own. This means that external screens
   can now be used for their intended purpose - frame buffering.

 · It opens the deepest available screen in a particular resolution.
   All you have to do is select the screen mode, if the screen can't
   be opened in 24-bit it will open in 16, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 or 1
   bit mode and dither the colours to represent the 24-bit image as
   closely as possible.

 · It is small, only 6224 bytes.

 · It is fast, compiled for 68020 or better. Since Real 3D requires
   this configuration to enable the FPU, the library assumes it is
   available and will fully utilise it. Best performance will be seen
   on an 68060 or 68040, since the code has been optimized with an
   instruction scheduler.

 · It has a GUI. A fully resizeable GUI, implemented using standard
   gadtools.library. No need for ridiculous things like MUI or other
   UI layout libraries.

 · Settings can be saved. When you save your settings the library will
   not pester you with the screen mode requester.

 · Works with Real 3D version 3 and EGS version 7.1

 · It is free of Enforcer and Mungwall hits. As far as I can tell I
   have eliminated all of these bugs. However if you find one please
   send me a bug report.

 · It allows you to change the screen resolution on the fly.


egs_real.library is Copyright ©1994-1995 @{b}Peter Urbanec@{ub}

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    E-Mail: peteru@urbanec.adsp.sub.org
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