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- DynaMate 0.5
- by Ville Rannikko
-
- DynaMate is a simple Dynamic-Hires picture display program. DynaMate
- will show any size of Dynamic-Hires pictures and will enable you to
- scroll pictures that are bigger than screen. Scrolling is done by
- moving your mouse and the program exits when you press left mouse button.
- DynaMate won't show Dynamic-HAM pictures. I don't think that is needed
- because you can use use SHAM mode to get almost the same results and
- Mostra can show SHAM pictures. When converting pictures with Wasp remember
- to use '-hires' option to make the pictures use 4 planes.
-
- DynaMate shows only 608 pixels, because otherwise copper cannot change
- all 16 colors during the horizontal blanking. Dyna-Show changes only 8
- colors with copper. The 8 other colors are changed with processor, to
- make that kind of thing work on all Amigas requires a lot of hacking.
- So I used a narrower screen to make my coding task much easier.
-
- I have only tested this program on an Amiga 500 with kickstart 1.3, so I
- don't know if this will work on any other Amigas. Bug reports and
- comments can be send to:
-
- Internet: mac@vipunen.hut.fi
-
- Regular mail:
- Ville Rannikko
- Artturi Kanniston tie 4 A 3
- 00320 Helsinki
- Finland
-
- History:
- 0.1 Initial public test release. Not a very wise move.
- 0.2 Rewrote almost everything to use only system function. This one was
- really slow and I found no cool way to make the scrolling work.
- 0.3 Back to direct hardware access.
- New:
- -image is centered
- -flicker free scrolling (I hope)
- 0.4 There was a bug that caused a possible call to dos.library
- before it was even opened. That is now fixed.
- Also fixed a stack problem.
- 0.5 Seek() errors were not correctly handled, fixed
-
- Bugs/Features:
- -screen position should be read from preferences, but I use always
- ($81,$2c)
- -moving mouse rapidly around will cause funky scrolling effects
-