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To all aspiring Amigalites:
If you're currently running your Bench in the non-interlace mode, tried
interlace but found all the lines waving to beat hell and never gave it
another thought...wow, have YOU got a surprise coming! Sure, you sit there
lookin' at it in the store and all the screens are non-interlace and it
just seems like that's the way a computer looks. Well!! What's the nicest
thing your monitor could do for you right now? Right: Have twice the screen
size. No problem! (merry Xmas from Commodore):
- Okay, now first I want to say outright that this is a low-level
lighting situation, which is, in part, why the monitors in the stores (with
all the bright lights) are non-interlace. Basically, you want the
curtains closed and the lights arranged so there's no glare on the screen.
Also, alas, if you have eye problems you may not like it, but give it a try
anyway as there's lots of room for experiment.
- All right, first open Prefs, put interlace on, Save and re-boot.
- After re-booting you should be in interlace mode. Open the Bench
window and drag it to the bottom half of the screen.
- Haul out your favorite Directory Utility and pop it open. My favorite
is Cunningham's DU-VI, 35,456 bytes. The lines of the DU, especially the
horizontal ones, should be waving like crazy. If you don't have a DU,
well, why not?? Any program with a bunch of horizontal lines, boxes,
windows, etc will do.
- With the DU on the top half of the screen, pop open Prefs and drag to
the bottom half.
- The scale for the color bars is 0 to 15, left to right. Click inside
the slide box to move the markers one notch at a time. Set the four colors
to:
blue white black gold
0 6 0 7
0 7 0 5
5 7 0 0
- As you can see, color #2 is the critical one. You can tone it down a
bit further. You can also make a light tan background with black lettering
that's pretty nice. Try different settings!
The only time you'll find yourself wanting to use the non-interlace mode
is for icon editing and running certain hacks. Included in this file are
three programs; Lace, an interlace switch, PrefChange, a Preferences
changer, and IconType, to convert a Tool icon to a Project (you can also
change an icon over using IconEd but IconType's a lot faster).
What you'll be doing is changing the program's icon to a Project
type, writing a script file for it and running it with Xicon. I'm assuming
you have Xicon; if not, immediately call up your local BBS and get it.
PrefChange has two programs in it; SavePrefs and SetPrefs. When you have
a color (or printer or pointer) you like, you type SavePrefs <filename> and
it stores it under that name in devs. To load a color/printer/pointer, type
SetPrefs <filename> and there it is. A superior program.
For our example we'll use good ol' IconEd. The file would read something
like this:
Echo "WARNING!! STAND BACK!! NON-INTERLACE MODE!! WARNING!!"
Lace ;switches to non-interlace mode
SetPrefs <name> ;your non-interlace colors and maybe a
special pointer to edit with
System/IconEd ;you don't Run it, so it freezes here
SetPrefs <name> ;your standard interlace colors
Lace ;back to interlace mode
Echo "All Safe" ;you wonder why they ever invented the
non-interlace mode in the first place!
If you don't like icons, you could call the file "x", put it is the S
directory (which is accessible to the Execute command without pathnames),
copy the Execute command to a command called "f", or whatever key you like
to use for a "hot" key, and as fast as your fingers can type "f x" you'll
be in action. If this is new to you, look at it this way: Execute is to S
what Run is to C. Meaning, the paths for the two commands to those two
directories are always there. Bless Commodore's designers' little hearts.
The Lace and Laceless in the devs2 dir are my SetPref settings for the two
modes, yours to check out.
Well, have fun!!
** BenchMaster **
The computer is a wonderful thing.
It enables you to recognize a mistake
every time you make it.