> what's with all those bitmap-related changes ? > > is it supposed to render the graphic faster... or something.
It provides significantly stricter error checking and exposed bugs in several drivers. It also makes it easier to do bitmap manipulation going forward.
> I'm getting errors while trying to compile.
Miss Cleo is still in prison AFAIK so you're going to have to actually hop over to the compiling board and list the errors you're getting ;-)