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- From: mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Using HAM8 on Workbench
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 20:19:50 GMT
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- I've read a few posts about using HAM8 mode on the Workbench
- screen. I downloaded "WBHacksAGA" from the Aminet, and modified my
- envarc:sys/screenmode.prefs (after renaming the original!) to use HAM8
- mode. It definitely starts up OK in HAM8 after the reboot. One thing
- I noticed right away was dramatically improved speed over the "normal"
- 8-bit (256 color out of 16.8 million) mode. However, it also seems to
- confuse the hell out of the Workbench, and any program that tries to
- put an image on the Workbench screen. It also seems to muck up the
- top 4 colors of the Workbench's (AmigaOS3.0 on an A1200) palette (they
- all come out as a bright green). I can't change the colors in the
- palette program in Preferences because it's the one program on my hard
- disk that still seems to think that the colors are OK. When I run
- AMosaic and have it display a JPEG, for instance, on the Workbench
- screen using an external viewer (MultiView), the JPEG ends up looking
- much worse than it does on an ordinary 256 (or even 128) color
- screen--like it has only 16 or 32 colors instead of many thousands to
- display the picture. Additionally, if I try to use any picture with
- lots of colors for a background on the Workbench (not something I
- actually want to do, but I tried it as a test to see if the mode was
- working correctly) the colors come out totally wrong--so bad that you
- can't tell what the picture is supposed to be.
- Has anyone managed to get this to work properly? Is there any
- way that HAM8 mode can be used on the Workbench screen and still have
- programs function correctly? Thanks a bunch (or maybe two).
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- Matt Harrell Amiga 1200 running AmigaOS3.0
- Lansing, MI U.S.A. CSA 12 Gauge 030/882RC@50MHz/SCSI
- mharrell@sojourn.com 2MB chip/18MB fast RAM
- 240MB IDE hard disk
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