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- Short: Fast 8-bit Chunky TrueColor on AGA
- Author: bevilacq@cli.di.unipi.it (Simone Bevilacqua)
- Uploader: bevilacq@cli.di.unipi.it (Simone Bevilacqua)
- Type: dev/misc
- Requires: AGA, 020+ CPU, KS 2.04+
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- The Tricky Color System (TCS) is a new, fantastic, software-only, video
- system which provides some new cool video modes on normal AGA Amigas by
- exploiting some basic concepts of the composition of colors.
- It comes in the shape of a shared library, but, if you want, you can
- write you own routines thanks to the detailed documentation which fully
- describes the system's internals.
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- Library Features list:
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- - multiple RGB-like color definitions, named "RGBx"
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- - TrueColor-like pixels, i.e. the value of a pixel is its own RGBx value,
- not an index to a color lookup table
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- - chunky access, i.e. a pixel value is read/written with an access to a
- single memory location
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- - 2 horizontal resolutions: HalfRes, FullRes (280 ns, 140 ns pixels)
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- - all the display sizes allowable by the Amiga hardware
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- - screens of any size (limited only by the available memory)
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- - 256 independently selectable colors per screen
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- - up to 256 unique colors per screen
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- - variable display brightness
-
- - Cross Playfield mode (a kind of Dual Playfield mode without a trasparent
- color and with variable front playfield opacity)
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- - up to 337 unique indipendent colors in Dual Cross Playfield mode
- (Cross Playfield mode with selectable transparent color)
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- - scrollable screens with horizontal increments of 35 ns
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- - double and triple buffered screens
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- - many graphic primitives + several other special graphic functions
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- - Graphic Contexts -based displays
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- - functions for pictures files handling
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- - functions for palette/color control
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- & more!
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-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 14034 4677 66.6% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +basix.guide
- 4945 2186 55.7% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +intro.guide
- 127210 27649 78.2% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +lib.guide
- 7836 2362 69.8% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +main.guide
- 1400 938 33.0% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +main.guide.info
- 144488 44962 68.8% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +tech.guide
- 1028 549 46.5% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +DubBuf
- 1020 538 47.2% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +FullRes
- 996 531 46.6% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +HalfRes
- 1364 718 47.3% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +ILBM&Fade
- 400 276 31.0% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +SvRGBxPal
- 1132 592 47.7% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +TriBuf
- 1156 611 47.1% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +TriBuf&BltFRP
- 1444 785 45.6% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +TriBuf&Zm
- 2464 1019 58.6% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +XPfld
- 1041 439 57.8% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +dat.i
- 1008 298 70.4% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +macros.i
- 6389 1919 69.9% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +shl_strtup.i
- 61650 47767 22.5% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +Alphonse.iff
- 67202 55309 17.6% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +Alphonse_rgbh.iff
- 46546 17234 62.9% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +DXP_rgbh.iff
- 81464 72001 11.6% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +TM.iff
- 76034 63339 16.6% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +TM_rgb332.iff
- 79356 67506 14.9% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +TM_rgbm.iff
- 79608 68662 13.7% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +TM_rgbp.iff
- 79326 67143 15.3% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +TM_rgbs.iff
- 72496 60555 16.4% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +TM_rgbw.iff
- 1181 401 66.0% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +readme
- 79 66 16.4% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +do
- 2540 723 71.5% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +DubBuf.s
- 2398 650 72.8% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +FullRes.s
- 2325 623 73.2% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +HalfRes.s
- 4113 1413 65.6% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +ILBM&Fade.s
- 2661 940 64.6% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +SvRGBxPal.s
- 3398 1033 69.5% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +TriBuf&BltFRP.s
- 5005 1867 62.6% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +TriBuf&Zm.s
- 3129 935 70.1% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +TriBuf.s
- 10521 2414 77.0% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +XPfld.s
- 10364 2751 73.4% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +tcs.i
- 2245 586 73.8% 13-Apr-00 15:51:16 +tcs_lib.i
- 23800 12327 48.2% 13-Apr-00 15:51:18 +tcs.library
- 223 173 22.4% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +readme
- 828 433 47.7% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +RGB332.iff
- 828 425 48.6% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +RGBH.iff
- 828 407 50.8% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +RGBM.iff
- 828 426 48.5% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +RGBP.iff
- 828 379 54.2% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +RGBS.iff
- 828 355 57.1% 13-Apr-00 15:51:14 +RGBW.iff
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