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- HAM-E DEVELOPERS PACKAGE notes/readme
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- The files in the archive are all related to the Black Belt Systems
- HAM-E device. The '.c' files and 'my.lib' provide all a developer needs
- to completely understand how the HAM-E device is handled in either it's
- REG mode or it's HAM-E mode. It shows how to use the "magic cookie" and
- how to create palettes. It also shows how to handle interlace screens.
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- The source code here is released to the public domain; we want you to
- use any part of it either directly or as an example for generating your
- own code. Compile and Link details are in hame.c at the top of the file.
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- You can even tell if you're generating correctly, for the most part, by
- looking at the image on your normal Amiga screen (it will be in hi-res
- color). It'll look pretty strange, but that's to be expected. This is
- how HAM-E images appear to those who do not have the HAM-E device
- attached... we think this will make them insatiably curious. We
- certainly hope so.
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- You'll find the C code commented well enough so that you can follow
- most anything in there that is worth following. No fancy techniques
- were used so that even beginning programmers would be able to
- understand what we are working for.
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- A forthcoming stand-alone example will show you how to render stunning
- fixed-up HAM-E mode images, utilizing all 236 color registers. We're
- documenting it now.
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- Ben Williams, AA7AS - for Black Belt Systems - April 19th, 1990
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