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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: 256 color workbench?
- Message-ID: <69748@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 01:20:14 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Nov13.152731.17286@zds-oem.zds.com>
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- >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.
- >
- Set Screenmode preferences to 256 colors. Multiview opens on it. I believe
- the ham picture will open on a custom screen though because WB isn't running
- in ham. You could have a program like imagemaster or adpro convert it to
- 256 color pic and it should display.
-
- -Joel
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