Since the last update, there has been progress on many features, but especially on the following ones to highlight:

GWorlds

The GWorld routines are practical utility functions for easy creation and handling of off-screen color ports, relieving the developer from a lot of mundane tasks for allocating the memory structures and house-keeping them. In the old “classic” QuickDraw, the developers were forced to do all this by themselves, but on other hand, the old-style QuickDraw had a lot less complexity and fewer data structures. The color QD requires maintenance of PixMap structures, and possibly “fake” GDevice handles with unique color tables and inverse color lookup tables, etc. The routines which color version were implemented this time were (* indicates ones that previously existed for “classic” QD’s GWorld wrappers):

• NewGWorld
• LockPixels*
• UnlockPixels*
• DisposeGWorld
• GetGWorld
• SetGWorld
• CTabChanged
• AllowPurgePixels
• NoPurgePixels
• GetPixelsState
• SetPixelsState
• GetPixBaseAddr
• GetGWorldPixMap

The games which benefitted most of the new GWorld routines were Wolfenstein 3D, SimCity 2000 and Civilization. It is also possible other games are utilizing them, but these were the ones first encountered in the test suite:

PixPat support

Another new feature added in the color QuickDraw are the PixPat patterns. As old QuickDraw only allowed 1-bit monochrome patterns, these PixPats have much more flexibility allowing multi-color patterns and also higher resolutions (most commonly seen as powers-of-two from 8 to 64 pixels, and up to 256 colors, although the PixPat data supports also “direct” pixel data).

The interesting feature of these “pixel patterns” is the fact that they actually use regular PixMap data as the pattern storage, so that a lot of internal routines for PixMap manipulation were directly helpful in the implementation of the color patterns. The most code needed for pixpat-specific drawing were the conversion to target depth (using the shader PixMap translators), and handling the special pattern modes in blitters, with repetition of pattern with variable-size dimensions.

The first games requiring use of PixPats were Glider 4.0 and Siege of Darkwood – but as a nice side effect, we now also have support for using color patterns on the desktop!

Other stuff

There were also many other minor improvements, some of which include:

• Finally a proper region-clipped color blitter (was on TODO list for a long time…)
• 32-bit PICT pixel data support, needed for Escape Velocity
• CopyBits & ScrollRect, for Civilization and SimCity 2000 map scrolling
• A bunch of new blitter modes
• Partial resouce read support for SimCity 2000
• Abstracted resource loading as a magic “CheckLoad” vector, to make AutoDoubler-compressed applications work (the one we encountered was the color version of Lemmings)
• MANY bug fixes and other improvements (complete list of everything at the end of this post)

New videos

Since the the last post, we have two new videos of test applications running in color mode. First is Glider 4.0, which seems to now be playable, benefitting especially from the most recent transparent arithmetic transfer mode support:

Also, here’s video of Wolfenstein 3D running (the lag is from QT video capture, game itself runs quite smoothly):

And of course as Sound Manager is not yet implemented, there is no audio in either videos.

Status of some of the color test applications

There are also some other games which are starting to get more functional in color mode, here’s a brief update on where they’re at right now:

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Most of these games run nicely, but there are some common issues still to be resolved:

• Menu drawing still need to be updated to support color mode properly
• List Manager does not yet handle hilite mode properly
• Scroll Bars are still rendered as monochrome versions only
• Standard File dialogs have still issues with color mode (folder popup menu, hilite mode, etc)
• No sound yet because of incomplete Sound Manager implementation
• Horizontal stretching for pixmap data is not yet implemented (although vertical stretching is), so horizontally scaled text/images do not yet appear properly
• A lot of missing blitter modes (they will be written as needed in the first pass, but will be generalized and optimized later so that all cases will be properly covered)

There are also a couple cases with application-specific problems:

• Maelstrom is playable & smooth, but gets stuck at end of level screen probably because of missing Sound Manager Implementation
• Civilization has a rare bug where inverse color tables appear to break down after playing the game for some time
• SimCity 2000 has a palette manager bug where a couple of palette entries go to wrong slots, causing a couple specific colors to not display properly (mostly visible in the title screen, and “Dispatch Firefighters” map sprite)
• Escape Velocity gets to main menu, but crashes due to some unresolved 68k cpu emulation bugs which Pukka is investigating

The status page will be updated in the coming weeks to reflect this new status.

Full list of changes since last post

2020-04-07 00:38:42 +0300 • Add pixpat patOr mode for color rectangle blitter
2020-04-07 00:31:42 +0300 • Add srcBic support to color rectangle blitter
2020-04-07 00:30:52 +0300 • Fix outline/shadow text style in color text render
2020-04-06 21:29:15 +0300 • Do 68K VM stack guard magic check for native fra..
2020-04-06 01:07:31 +0300 • Set bg color in SetWinColor, fix Siege of Darkwood
2020-04-06 00:39:03 +0300 • Fix crash when decoding pixpats from PICT resource
2020-04-05 23:10:26 +0300 • Fix GetPalette bitmasking (missing window redraws)
2020-04-05 05:21:26 +0300 • Indexed transparent arithmetic region renderer
2020-04-05 04:39:00 +0300 • Indexed transparent arithmetic rectangle renderer
2020-04-05 03:22:26 +0300 • Indexed transparent arithmetic scanline renderer
2020-04-04 16:53:34 +0300 • Clean up old commented-out legacy code
2020-04-04 16:52:27 +0300 • Handle undefined EnvDefaultColorDepth case
2020-04-04 16:51:21 +0300 • Handle arithmetic mode setup for color mapping
2020-04-01 22:24:46 +0300 • Update test desktop background pattern
2020-04-01 03:01:26 +0300 • Color desktop ppat (forced on for now for testing)
2020-04-01 02:47:14 +0300 • Fix 8x8 pixpat expansion
2020-04-01 01:59:00 +0300 • Implement (mostly) pixpat conversion & rendering
2020-04-01 01:57:35 +0300 • Separate pixel translation from stretch blitter
2020-04-01 01:43:46 +0300 • Clear CGrafPort refs to pixpat in DisposePixPat
2020-03-30 16:59:25 +0300 • Add (partial) FillCRect/Oval/Arc/Rgn/Poly
2020-03-30 16:00:04 +0300 • Add EnvDefaultColorDepth for app-specific default
2020-03-30 15:32:31 +0300 • Fix region masking bug of diagonal Line/LineTo
2020-03-30 15:30:07 +0300 • Fix ErasePoly (typo from copy-paste)
2020-03-30 11:53:03 +0300 • Fix right-to-left color rectblit & right-edge mask
2020-03-30 04:57:07 +0300 • Add srcXor mode for non-colorizing stretch blitter
2020-03-30 04:54:25 +0300 • Color QD version of polygon operations
2020-03-30 04:47:10 +0300 • Add region-clipped color blitter & fix LOT of bugs
2020-03-30 04:44:10 +0300 • Fix invalid masking in srcCopy in translating blit
2020-03-30 01:18:15 +0300 • Fix iteration of region 3-only non-rect case
2020-03-28 21:53:06 +0200 • Fix inverted hilite flag check in colorized WDEF 0
2020-03-27 21:39:58 +0200 • Fix TextEdit locals saved forecolor overlap bug
2020-03-27 20:45:13 +0200 • Add color support also to WDEF 0 zoom box drawing
2020-03-27 19:34:27 +0200 • Add color support to WDEF 0 growbox drawing
2020-03-27 16:36:51 +0200 • Add (partial) color QD support for ScrollRect
2020-03-27 15:18:16 +0200 • Add Loony Labyrinth test app to CMake JSON configs
2020-03-27 15:17:43 +0200 • Implement SaveFore/Back & RestoreFore/Back
2020-03-27 02:46:11 +0200 • Fix (again) AnimatePalette
2020-03-27 01:36:19 +0200 • Set default palette in GetNewWindow/GetNewCWindow
2020-03-26 23:12:07 +0200 • Implement ReadPartialResource in ResourceDispatch
2020-03-26 22:26:03 +0200 • Fix HCreateResFile (dirID mishandled)
2020-03-26 21:02:04 +0200 • Improve StdText CGrafPort/GWorld compatibility
2020-03-26 21:00:46 +0200 • Fix CloseResFile stack frame mismatch
2020-03-26 20:11:11 +0200 • Implement SetPixelsState and AllowPurgePixels
2020-03-26 19:54:40 +0200 • Implement GetPixelsState selector in QDExtensions
2020-03-26 19:46:06 +0200 • Implement SetGWorld selector in QDExtensions
2020-03-26 19:33:15 +0200 • Implement GetGWorldPixMap selector in QDExtensions
2020-03-26 19:16:17 +0200 • Implement GetGWorld in QDExtensions
2020-03-26 19:12:42 +0200 • Implement Palette2CTab
2020-03-26 18:45:36 +0200 • Add SimCity 2000 test app to CMake JSON configs
2020-03-26 17:24:03 +0200 • CopyBits improvements (fix Escape Velocity crash)
2020-03-26 02:59:02 +0200 • Add 32-bit to indexed color conversion to blitter
2020-03-26 02:57:00 +0200 • Fix rgb PICT data unpack for rowBytes > 250
2020-03-26 02:56:00 +0200 • Implement DisposeCIcon
2020-03-25 22:09:57 +0200 • Support 'PICT' packType=4 RGB data (run-packed)
2020-03-25 20:45:05 +0200 • Start collision check from current link, not next
2020-03-25 19:08:43 +0200 • Fix color blitter for <=32bit wide transfers
2020-03-25 18:35:49 +0200 • Conditionalize Paletter Manager debug log output
2020-03-25 18:34:59 +0200 • Handle collisions in inverse color table lookup
2020-03-25 14:08:12 +0200 • Validate input in SetEntries & clear cached fonts
2020-03-25 03:01:34 +0200 • Fix UInt16/SInt16 RGB delta bug in palette update
2020-03-25 01:13:22 +0200 • Add missing A6 setup for the CheckLoad wrapper
2020-03-25 01:05:40 +0200 • Add secret "CheckLoad" hook (AutoDoubler support)
2020-03-25 00:57:35 +0200 • Add color Lemmings JSON to CMake test apps configs
2020-03-24 22:34:47 +0200 • Clamp cursor hotspot between [0, 15]
2020-03-24 22:34:15 +0200 • Fix color CopyBits thePort/dstBits comparison bug
2020-03-24 19:55:58 +0200 • Extract color QD rect blitter to own module
2020-03-24 19:30:09 +0200 • Implement DisposeGDevice (used in DisposeGWorld)
2020-03-24 14:47:56 +0200 • Implement color QD version of ClosePort
2020-03-24 04:24:57 +0200 • Unreserve palette entry when cleared (single GD)
2020-03-24 04:23:41 +0200 • Set MemErr to noErr in ReservMem on success
2020-03-24 02:35:37 +0200 • Fix negative dstLeft corruption @ B/W stretch blit
2020-03-23 21:01:59 +0200 • Implement DeleteMCEntries
2020-03-23 20:50:33 +0200 • Paint window (and invalidate) on ActivatePalette
2020-03-23 20:49:14 +0200 • Draw desktop pattern for PaintOne(nil) case
2020-03-23 20:44:03 +0200 • Fix AnimatePalette for srcIndex > 0 cases
2020-03-23 01:41:36 +0200 • Fix GetCatInfo bug by previous fix (non-WDCB case)
2020-03-23 01:27:40 +0200 • Minor menu color entry manipulation tweaks
2020-03-23 01:25:58 +0200 • Fix monochrome QD compilation error
2020-03-22 23:36:53 +0200 • Implement SetEntryColor
2020-03-22 23:24:53 +0200 • Implement GetPalette trap for Palette Manager
2020-03-22 22:09:37 +0200 • Extract PaletteDispatch routines to own C module
2020-03-22 21:42:58 +0200 • Add Ultimate Doom test app to JSON configs
2020-03-22 21:42:24 +0200 • Add CTabChanged and (partial) DisposeGWorld
2020-03-22 07:33:06 +0200 • Give more CPU time for 68020+ mode
2020-03-22 06:46:10 +0200 • Fix buffer size bug in NewGWorld w/ pixelDepth = 0
2020-03-22 03:55:04 +0200 • Implement FCMPS in FP68K (SANE) for Wolf3D
2020-03-22 03:42:46 +0200 • Improve bits opcode (9x) for non-indexed support
2020-03-22 03:37:10 +0200 • Implement NoPurgePixels selector
2020-03-22 03:36:45 +0200 • Fix unassigned pmBounds.left bug in NewGWorld
2020-03-22 02:23:21 +0200 • Implement color QD version of NewGWorld
2020-03-22 02:22:18 +0200 • Resolve WDCB to DirID in GetCatInfo ioFDirIndex>1
2020-03-21 18:50:18 +0200 • Add 'qdrw' Gestalt selector (Quickdraw features)
2020-03-21 04:44:26 +0200 • Fix pixpat opcodes in DrawPicture
2020-03-21 04:42:32 +0200 • Implement unpacked pixmap data load in DrawPicture
2020-03-21 04:40:28 +0200 • Fix CloseWD crash (ignore ioNamePtr)
2020-03-21 03:43:35 +0200 • Implement CopyPixMap
2020-03-21 02:26:20 +0200 • Fix GetPenState bug (caused gray fills everywhere)
2020-03-21 01:33:43 +0200 • Implement color QD version of ScrnBitMap
2020-03-21 01:20:54 +0200 • Hack tmp SoundBase to make Glider 4 happy in color
2020-03-21 01:19:08 +0200 • Implement color CopyMask (untested!)
2020-03-21 01:17:37 +0200 • Fix missing argument deref in color pat conversion
2020-03-21 01:16:34 +0200 • Add 'vm ' Gestalt selector (returns 0 for no VM)
2020-03-21 01:14:12 +0200 • Add HWPriv & dummy FlushData/FlushInstructionCache
2020-03-20 19:18:33 +0200 • Fix colorQD highlight bug of radio/checkbox button
2020-03-20 19:09:02 +0200 • Implement grayishTextOr mode for StdText
2020-03-20 19:07:55 +0200 • Implement GetGray selector for PaletteDispatch
2020-03-20 19:06:06 +0200 • Tweak signature of rgb delta calculation to UInt16
2020-03-20 18:20:45 +0200 • Implement patBic mode in pattern rect blitter
2020-03-20 06:22:31 +0200 • Fix StdGetPic, handle byteCount as unsigned UInt16
2020-03-20 06:20:48 +0200 • Implement GetPixBaseAddr selector in QDExtensions
2020-03-20 05:27:15 +0200 • Fix masking bug in color stretch blitter
2020-03-20 03:38:11 +0200 • Add a bunch empty dummy SoundDispatch placeholders
2020-03-20 02:57:14 +0200 • Implement QDError trap
2020-03-20 02:54:26 +0200 • Implement FSpOpenResFile and FSpCreateResFile
2020-03-20 02:52:57 +0200 • Implement HCreateResFile
2020-03-20 02:29:20 +0200 • Add semi-dummy ResolveAliasFile selector
2020-03-20 02:08:52 +0200 • Add Escape Velocity test app to cmake configs
2020-03-20 02:08:30 +0200 • Add missing file from previous commit
2020-03-20 02:08:18 +0200 • Add Pack12 & Fix2SmallFract+SmallFract2Fix+RGB2HSL
2020-03-20 00:06:06 +0200 • Fix signature of SwapMMUMode
2020-03-19 23:25:45 +0200 • Fix text styling buffer overflow in color QD
2020-03-19 23:22:36 +0200 • Apply kernMax in color font renderer
2020-03-19 19:18:59 +0200 • Update & re-seed GDevice pmTable in SetEntries too
2020-03-19 16:01:13 +0200 • 4-bit debug palette view
2020-03-19 16:00:59 +0200 • Implement SetPortPix trap
2020-03-19 01:26:06 +0200 • Add fake SwapMMUMode trap
2020-03-19 01:24:19 +0200 • Add dummy 'snd ' Gestalt selector
2020-03-19 01:23:39 +0200 • Dummy SoundDispatch (& dummy SndPlayDoubleBuffer)
2020-03-19 00:40:09 +0200 • Add Maelstrom test app to cmake configs
2020-03-19 00:39:47 +0200 • Dispose auxCtlRec also in DisposeControl trap
2020-03-19 00:29:57 +0200 • Fix 'cctb' ID=0 bug
2020-03-19 00:15:34 +0200 • Implement ProtectEntry and ReserveEntry traps
2020-03-18 23:53:47 +0200 • Fix RS stack frame mismatch in FrameRect
2020-03-18 23:53:10 +0200 • Implement TestDeviceAttribute & SetDeviceAttribute
2020-03-18 23:44:13 +0200 • Implement GetCWMgrPort trap