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- MORECOLORS ver. .9
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-
- Jerry Crosson
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- Morecolors gives you exactly what you might expect: more colors. How many
- additional colors? In what modes? Well, since all this program does is use
- the Copper to change the color registers on the fly its limits are the Copper's
- limits. You can use it in any mode. The simple demo that I'm sending out
- with this program (mcdemo.arc) has over 100 colors on a single plane hi-res
- screen. Not bad for a two-color mode.
-
- USING MORECOLORS
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- Morecolors, which will only run from CLI, accepts the following
- command line arguments:
-
- morecolors >Outfile Infile (Don't use the same file for both)
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- Outfile is the file in which the color-modification info is stored.
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- Infile is any previously created file.
-
- Both are optional. If Infile is ommited you start with a clean slate,
- leave out Outfile and the program will dump data to the console.
- Data read from a file will not be displayed until the first "ADD".
- This prevents mucking up the copper lists a screen other than the
- one you are working on. If you just want to display, use the program
- provided with the demo.
-
-
- There are ten gadgets in morecolors.
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- The three sliders select the color to be added.
-
- The triangular up/down gadgets select where the color is
- to be added. The changes will not take place at exactly the
- position you select. There will be a delay which depends on
- display resolution and depth.
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- The "ADD" gadget causes the color to be added.
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- The "SCREEN" gadget moves you into the next screen.
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- There currently isn't any edit option but the output file whose data
- is stored in a very simple ASCII format can be edited with any text
- editor. The format of the data is as follows:
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- <ROW> <COL> <COLOR> <COLOR REGISTER> <CR>
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- This is a fairly crude way to do things but if there is sufficient interest
- I will do another version. If this happens, some of the things that I plan
- to do include making it easy to use with Dpaint (possible now but a real
- pain...), having the pointer color reflect the color chosen by the RGB
- sliders, having the right mouse button select position, keyboard-only option
- and... well, I'll wait and see what the response is. Comments are welcome.
- But please remember that this was a fast hack and that I am aware of the
- shortcomings of the present version.
-
- Send to jcrosson on BIX.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- This program is provided "As Is", there is no warranty.
-