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New in Amiga dBMan V5.3: Ben Discoe 10/10/90
Speed:
Sorting and indexing now makes more efficient use of memory resulting
in up to 3 times faster operations. Be sure to set BUFFERS high
enough for this to work efficiently - at least BUFFERS=96, but the
more the better.
Palette and Resolution:
You can combine the following options-
Use workbench screen 64
(in a draggable window if your workbench is larger than normal)
Use interlaced screen 32
Use the FULL-COLOR palette 16
Use the workbench palette 8
(default is the AmigaOS V2.0 palette)
Number of bitplanes (default 3 = 8 colors)
just add up the options you want and place this number in SYSFLAGS
in CONFIG.DBM.
To change the height of your window (if opened on the workbench
screen) use the ROWMX variable in CONFIG.DBM.
Color:
Full video mode support. You can set say, get, or erase video modes
to any color combinations you like. For people that haven't used
dBMan's colors before, this is how they work in FULL COLOR mode,
which is compatible with the MSDOS version of dBMan:
Video Attribute:
<Bit7> <Bit6> <Bit5> <Bit4> <Bit3> <Bit2> <Bit1> <Bit0>
Bg Int. Bg Red Bg Green Bg Blue FG Int. Fg Red Fg Green Fg Blue
For people that don't like to think in bits, another way of thinking
about this setup is:
Video Attribute = (background color * 16) + foreground color
where the colors are as follows:
0: black 8: dk. black (black!)
1: blue 9: dk. blue
2: green 10: dk. green
3: cyan 11: dk. cyan
4: red 12: dk. red
5: purple 13: dk. purple
6: yellow 14: dk. yellow
7: white 15: dk. white (grey)
(colors 8-15 are only present if you use four bitplanes)
Example: SET SAY VIDEO TO 86 sets the SAY color to yellow on purple
SET GET VIDEO TO 7 sets the GET color to white on black
Full European Key Support on the European Version:
correctly handles the full Amiga character set,
including sort order.
PAL support: OF COURSE.
More Frames:
try "assign frame(n)" for n=1,2,3,4,5,6 before drawing windows
or boxes!
Many small bugs have been fixed. Countless small improvements were made.
Remember, if you have any difficulty, phone tech suport or fax us the problem.