Re: [MiNT] GRAFX2 2.2 atari port [beta]

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

2011/1/31 Paweł Góralski <nokturnal@nokturnal.pl>:
> Hello,
> I've managed to port pixel painter GrafX 2.2 to Atari Falcon, but it should
> work on Atari TT too (under TOS/MiNT). As it is SDL based it can be little
> slow on standard machines. Here's the link to official announcement and
> screenshots: http://nokturnal.pl/2011/01/grafx_atari_por/langswitch_lang/en
> It has few bugs though(mainly connected with reading/writing some obscure
> formats and lua scripting), so it's beta for now until everything will be
> resolved. The changes aren't yet on official project SVN repository, but I
> will add them soon. This program will be great when there will be support
> for additional CTPCI ATI Radeon (fullscreen)screenmodes in SDL .
>
> It cannot be used in the GEM window, because mouse isn't handled properly. I
> don't know what to with it for now. I've tried it under Aranym only. If it
> could be run properly in window then I think that people with machines with
> graphics cards could benefit from it. The application could be also run with
> much greater working space.
>
Cool, thanks for the effort, seems like things will workout well, with
a bit of patience & lots of testing (according to posts)

> Not all formats are handled properly yet, only most common ones and Atari
> specific are handled. It may change in the future of course.
>
When you get around to the file formats again, can you look into
generating XIMG that are suitable for XaAES, or is that restricted to
the 24/32 bit support in GrafX

> Regards,
> Pawel
> e-mail: nokturnal@nokturnal.pl
> www: http://nokturnal.pl
>

Either way it is good to get another graphics app that runs on ARAnyM + MiNT

Cheers

Paul