Heya guys! I’d like to share some recap about Release Candidate 2 that will probably come out sometimes in September.
Massive work is undergoing in collaboration with the Mega Bezel Reflection Shader creators community in preparation of the next shader public release.
Fist of all, here’s a nice graphic with my performance tests of the internal build. Lots of info and nice new features here!
MORE EXTREME-NESS
The enhancement-specific profile gains a deeply improved ScaleFX resample, an additional layer of texture via fake scanlines, Fast Sharpen from Guest.r, tuned TV process GTU and brightness. Once you go Extreme, you can’t go back!
STANDARD PROFILE RELOADED
I decided to shift the STANDARD profile from pre-baked overlay to classic multilayer solution, making it a performance valid alternative to ADVANCED and EXTREME on par with the main features, including scalable/moveable display and adaptive design.
HOT POTATO
My original POTATO was a stripped-down version of the basic Mega Bezel Reflection Shader. The new one leverages on the lightning fast dedicated solution based on ZFAST shader to bring CRT eye candy on weak machines.
For more effects on potato you will be able to choose canonical GDV and EASYMODE alternative, but I made ZFAST the default because promises to be 2-3x times faster than alternatives!
In my tests I hit some hardcoded cap while measuring, but as you can see multilayer STD profile stands on 215 frames per second, while POT overlay pushes more than 5500 fps!!!
NEW CONTENT
As you can see in captures from this thread, I added some new display, these will be available for each system model out-of-the-box.
The australian monochrome c1201 will be available in three phosphor variations and it’s really, really fun to see it in action with both Amiga 16 bit graphics and incoming 8 bit Commodore gloryes!
c1902 offers a lot of gameplay area, being it a quite essential monitor a lot of people used in the old time.
CRT Series BezelTron-001 is the first television in the pack, designed to be used with Amiga CD32 but available for all the systems.
Amiga 1200Synth has been revised to converge to the FS-UAE theme, and I find the multi floppy emulator to be more clean and less cluttered than before. Also, banding artifacts are gone!
IN CONCLUSION
Stay tuned. Good thing come to those who wait!