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MORECOLORS ver. .9
Jerry Crosson
Morecolors gives you exactly what you might expect: more colors. How many
additional colors? In what modes? Well, since all this program does is use
the Copper to change the color registers on the fly its limits are the Copper's
limits. You can use it in any mode. The simple demo that I'm sending out
with this program (mcdemo.arc) has over 100 colors on a single plane hi-res
screen. Not bad for a two-color mode.
USING MORECOLORS
Morecolors, which will only run from CLI, accepts the following
command line arguments:
morecolors >Outfile Infile (Don't use the same file for both)
Outfile is the file in which the color-modification info is stored.
Infile is any previously created file.
Both are optional. If Infile is ommited you start with a clean slate,
leave out Outfile and the program will dump data to the console.
Data read from a file will not be displayed until the first "ADD".
This prevents mucking up the copper lists a screen other than the
one you are working on. If you just want to display, use the program
provided with the demo.
There are ten gadgets in morecolors.
The three sliders select the color to be added.
The triangular up/down gadgets select where the color is
to be added. The changes will not take place at exactly the
position you select. There will be a delay which depends on
display resolution and depth.
The "ADD" gadget causes the color to be added.
The "SCREEN" gadget moves you into the next screen.
There currently isn't any edit option but the output file whose data
is stored in a very simple ASCII format can be edited with any text
editor. The format of the data is as follows:
<ROW> <COL> <COLOR> <COLOR REGISTER> <CR>
This is a fairly crude way to do things but if there is sufficient interest
I will do another version. If this happens, some of the things that I plan
to do include making it easy to use with Dpaint (possible now but a real
pain...), having the pointer color reflect the color chosen by the RGB
sliders, having the right mouse button select position, keyboard-only option
and... well, I'll wait and see what the response is. Comments are welcome.
But please remember that this was a fast hack and that I am aware of the
shortcomings of the present version.
Send to jcrosson on BIX.
DISCLAIMER
This program is provided "As Is", there is no warranty.