Hi,
It is *almost* possible to write a completely DD-free program in BP.
The 'Native' driver (which uses my own fairly unoptimized software blitting routines, as they appear to be faster than GDI's BitBlt!) is designed to work on bog-standard systems.
However, the system currently selects DirectDraw as the default startup driver.
What I'll probably do is add a 'Safe mode' command line switch (selectable from the IDE) that starts the system up in purely Native mode, and from there your code can choose to use Native, DirectDraw or OpenGL drivers at runtime.
BlitzPlus will indeed be receiving attention during Maplet development, as Maplet itself is a GUI based program that uses the BP libs.
It is *almost* possible to write a completely DD-free program in BP.
The 'Native' driver (which uses my own fairly unoptimized software blitting routines, as they appear to be faster than GDI's BitBlt!) is designed to work on bog-standard systems.
However, the system currently selects DirectDraw as the default startup driver.
What I'll probably do is add a 'Safe mode' command line switch (selectable from the IDE) that starts the system up in purely Native mode, and from there your code can choose to use Native, DirectDraw or OpenGL drivers at runtime.
BlitzPlus will indeed be receiving attention during Maplet development, as Maplet itself is a GUI based program that uses the BP libs.