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- The HeliOS screen uses 8 colours
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- This feature of HeliOS offers a more attractive program environment
- than the traditional four colour screen, and gives you more scope with
- graphical output to the HeliOS screen.
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- Since HeliOS uses interactive interpreted software output which often
- writes to the HeliOS screen display, the use of 8 colours gives more
- scope for creativity and experimentation. This is a consideration quite
- alien to most Amiga programming systems which are dull and functional
- in terms of merely technical performance.
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- The use of 8 colours has brought a slight performance penalty within the
- interpreter, since the Amiga console device has rather slow text handling,
- but overall the benefits of having more colours outweigh the disadvantages.
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- Most modern Amigas have plenty of memory, so the extra graphics memory
- useage is not a serious consideration.
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- Colour choice
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- There is a flexible colour selection and preset system within the HeliOS
- software, but inevitably selecting a set of colours which work well in all
- circumstances is difficult.
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- We have desiged the interface so that using different colours a reasonable
- appearance can be fairly easily maintained with a little care.
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- The idea is that there are three colours (Colours 0, 3 and 4) which form
- a graded intensity range within a given colour tone. You can set these
- three colours to your own choice, preferably keeping the light, medium and
- dark colours as 0, 4 and 3, in that order. Having set these colours it
- is quite easy to modify the remaining ones as required to maintain a nice
- harmonious appearance.
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- Of course you can change ALL the colours if you like.........
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- The colour control panel
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- The colour controls consist of a standard set of palette controls with
- RGB sliders, and a set of 5 preset colour palettes each of which can be
- changed and saved.
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- There is a save button to which saves all the current 5 palette preset
- colour settings along with the currently selected preset.
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- All colour configuration files saved can be reloaded at any time or used
- as a default startup colour configuration file.
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- See the "InitialSetup.doc" file for instructions on how to set up a startup
- default color file.
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- The RESET button on the colour control panel will reset the currently
- selected preset palette to its original HeliOS system default colours.
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- The UNDO button on the colour control panel will reset the currently
- selected preset palette to the colour settings it had before entering
- the colour control panel this time.
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