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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+
-
- Replaces dev/misc/TCS.lha
-
-
-
- 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.
-
-
-
- TCS and tcs.library features list:
-
- - TrueColor-like pixels, i.e. the value of a pixel is its own RGBx value,
- not an index to a color lookup table
- - chunky access, i.e. a pixel is read/written with a single access to
- memory
- - 2 horizontal resolutions: HalfRes, FullRes (280 ns, 140 ns pixels)
- - all the display sizes allowable by the Amiga hardware
- - screens of any size (limited only by the available memory)
- - 256 independently selectable colors per screen
- - up to 256 unique colors per screen
- - variable display brightness
- - Cross Playfield mode (a kind of Dual Playfield mode without a trasparent
- color and with variable front playfield opacity)
- - up to 337 unique indipendent colors in Dual Cross Playfield mode
- (Cross Playfield mode with selectable transparent color)
- - multiple RGB-like color definitions, named "RGBx"
- - scrollable screens with horizontal increments of 35 ns
- - double and triple buffered screens
- - many graphic primitives + several other special graphic functions
- - Graphic Contexts -based displays
- - functions for brushes handling
- - functions for pictures files handling
- - functions for palette/color control
-
- & even more!
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 8843 1895 78.5% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +brshs.s
- 627 336 46.4% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +do
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- 4720 1669 64.6% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +DubBuf&HRScrl.s
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- 2368 656 72.2% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +HalfRes.s
- 4101 1394 66.0% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +ILBM&Fade.s
- 3920 1365 65.1% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +RmpILBM.s
- 2649 939 64.5% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +SvRGBxPal.s
- 3475 1068 69.2% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +TriBuf&BltFRP.s
- 6131 2161 64.7% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +TriBuf&RotZm.s
- 4977 1866 62.5% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +TriBuf&Zm.s
- 3206 977 69.5% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +TriBuf.s
- 10949 2508 77.0% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +XPfld.s
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- 1432 796 44.4% 26-Sep-00 17:51:04 +DubBuf&HRScrl
- 1000 536 46.4% 26-Sep-00 17:51:04 +FullRes
- 976 526 46.1% 26-Sep-00 17:51:04 +HalfRes
- 1360 718 47.2% 26-Sep-00 17:51:04 +ILBM&Fade
- 1288 706 45.1% 26-Sep-00 17:51:04 +RmpILBM
- 400 275 31.2% 26-Sep-00 17:51:04 +SvRGBxPal
- 1112 591 46.8% 26-Sep-00 17:51:04 +TriBuf
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- 1608 877 45.4% 26-Sep-00 17:51:04 +TriBuf&RotZm
- 1436 796 44.5% 26-Sep-00 17:51:04 +TriBuf&Zm
- 2512 1048 58.2% 26-Sep-00 17:51:04 +XPfld
- 1041 439 57.8% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +dat.i
- 1526 442 71.0% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +macros.i
- 6223 1867 69.9% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +shl_strtup.i
- 67202 55309 17.6% 26-Sep-00 17:51:02 +Alphonse.rgbh.iff
- 50102 10232 79.5% 26-Sep-00 17:51:02 +brshs.rgbh.iff
- 46562 17233 62.9% 26-Sep-00 17:51:02 +DXP.rgbh_15.iff
- 173800 72497 58.2% 26-Sep-00 17:51:02 +MyWB.rgbm.iff
- 55940 36334 35.0% 26-Sep-00 17:51:02 +Suppa.rgbs.iff
- 81464 72001 11.6% 26-Sep-00 17:51:02 +TigerMask.iff
- 76034 63339 16.6% 26-Sep-00 17:51:02 +TigerMask.rgb332.iff
- 79608 68662 13.7% 26-Sep-00 17:51:02 +TigerMask.rgbp.iff
- 79326 67143 15.3% 26-Sep-00 17:51:02 +TigerMask.rgbs.iff
- 72496 60555 16.4% 26-Sep-00 17:51:02 +TigerMask.rgbw.iff
- 45330 18403 59.4% 26-Sep-00 17:51:02 +wheel.rgbw.iff
- 1467 501 65.8% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +readme
- 18358 6398 65.1% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +basix.guide
- 5423 2387 55.9% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +intro.guide
- 132598 29256 77.9% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +lib.guide
- 19294 6328 67.2% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +main.guide
- 1400 949 32.2% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +main.guide.info
- 162900 52844 67.5% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +tech.guide
- 10498 2780 73.5% 26-Sep-00 17:50:58 +tcs.i
- 3797 811 78.6% 26-Sep-00 17:50:58 +tcs_lib.i
- 40676 18678 54.0% 26-Sep-00 17:51:02 +tcs.library
- 223 173 22.4% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +readme
- 828 433 47.7% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +RGB332.iff
- 828 425 48.6% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +RGBH.iff
- 828 407 50.8% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +RGBM.iff
- 828 426 48.5% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +RGBP.iff
- 828 379 54.2% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +RGBS.iff
- 828 355 57.1% 26-Sep-00 17:51:00 +RGBW.iff
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