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[News] fxSCAN 4.02 with native x86-support (Amithlon)ANN.lu
Posted on 22-Jul-2002 08:34 GMT by Felix Schwarz15 comments
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As the first bigger application IOSpirit's fxSCAN now supports Amithlon with x86-native versions of its CPU-modules. Thus fxSCAN now runs on native on 680x0, PPC (WarpUP, PowerUP, MorphOS) and x86 (Amithlon) with full speed. The portation of the OCR-engine and the servertask (one for every sytem) again brings at least a doubling of speed compared to the emulated 68K-CPU. Under "Downloads" you can now download a free patch from version 4.0/4.01 to 4.02.

All changes since V4.01:

- direct support for TurboPrint (no more only via Graphics Publisher), incl. copying. Partly leads to greatly enhanced printing speed.
- x86-native versions of the servertask and the OCR-engine in Amithlon.
- when saving JPEGs, the DPI-information is now saved, too.
- version 8 of the fxWARP3-system (new "fxWARP Memory Guard" to work around bugs and limitations of WarpUP)
- the standardtool saved in NewIcons can now be changed with the PICTURETOOL-tooltype

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Comment 1Felix Schwarz22-Jul-2002 06:36 GMT
Comment 2Desmon22-Jul-2002 06:40 GMT
Comment 3Don Cox22-Jul-2002 07:28 GMT
Comment 4Don Cox22-Jul-2002 07:35 GMT
fxSCAN 4.02 with native x86-support (Amithlon) : Comment 5 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Kjetil on 22-Jul-2002 07:56 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Don Cox):
>This is the right approach.
Only if we are able to separate the binaries, and I’m afraid that I686 is going to under mind the current development of the PPC, and the continued development of the AmigaOS4.X
>It would be interesting to know which compiler is being used and how
>much extra work is involved.
More work then using VP, AmigaDe provides and standards API.
>As there are only three CPUs involved, there would be little advantage
>in using Tao's VP, even if it was available for AmigaOS.
This is only true if you have an PPC and I686, the advantage VP has over GCC or any otter compiler is the assembler language, VP has infinity number of CPU registers, one otter thing is the standard way of doing things, how ever I expect VP binaries converted to native to be less optimised with out knowing so.
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