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- From: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: 256 color workbench?
- Message-ID: <37080@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:48:55 GMT
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Nov13.152731.17286@zds-oem.zds.com> benjamin@zds-oem.zds.com (Adam Benjamin) writes:
- >
- >I'm demoing the 4000 at my local Amiga users group next week and I wanted
- >to display an old ham image under a new 256 color or ham8 pic. (two windows)
- >
- >How would I do this? MultiView won't open under workbench, I assume because
- >workbench isn't supporting the color depth. So how do I get workbench to
- >run in 256 or HAM8? Or alternatively how do I open a high-color screen
- >and get multiview to open two windows on it?
- >I suppose I could just have two screens and drag them around, but that's
- >not my first choice.
-
- The workbench cannot be opened in a HAM mode, so multiview is forced to display
- HAM (or Extra HalfBrite) images on a separate HAM (EHB) screen. You can easily
- open a 256 colour Workbench screen though using the screenmode prefs file - just
- set the 'colors' slider to 256.
-
-
- >
- >Adam B.
- >A.Benjamin@mi04.zds.com or Benjamin@zds-oem.zds.com
-
-
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