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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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- Replaces dev/misc/TCS.lha
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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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- TCS and tcs.library features list:
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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
- - 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
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- & even more!
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