2007-05-05

   How to patch the ReSource executable to use one bitplane for its screen
   =======================================================================

ReSource, an Amiga disassembler from The Puzzle Factory, is a superb product.
However, with the introduction of version 6 the text rendering routines were
changed to make them more RTG-friendly. The new routines are significantly
slower than those in version 5.

The effect of this is especially bad for users of ECS machines. My preferred
screen mode for running ReSource is Super72:High Res, 800×300. In four
colours, this is almost unusably slow on my (accelerated) A2000. Changing the
screen depth to 1 speeds things up greatly. The text of disassembled code
only uses 1 colour (plus background), so is unaffected by the change. The
only differences are cosmetic.

The instructions in docs/misc/ReSourcePatch.txt on Aminet describe a simple
one-byte patch for ReSource versions 6.01 and 6.06, which only changes the
screen depth; some gadget borders look ugly since those were not changed. The
patch described here also changes the gadget borders.

The instructions and patch file here apply to ReSource version 6.06 only. If
anyone needs a patch for version 6.01, please contact me. (Please also
contact me if you have any other versions of ReSource 6.)


-- Mark

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                13054   21448  60.9% -lh5- 13d1 Sep  6  2002 ReSourcePatch/GPatch
[generic]                   99     115  86.1% -lh5- d957 May  5 02:36 ReSourcePatch/ReSource1plane.gpch
[generic]                 1284    2749  46.7% -lh5- 46f2 May  5 03:00 ReSourcePatch/ReSourcePatch.readme
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 Total         3 files   14437   24312  59.4%            May  5 11:31