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This litle command was done because I had some problems with the
MagicWB-Demon.
o It sometimes crashed at startup (after doing Colorado, I found out that
the fault was in the kickstart 8( - Solution; PatchOpenWB)
o It could only set the middle colors (4-11 on 16 col. screens...)
o You had to type in alot of numbers to set your colors (col n,r,g,b)
o Couldn't load after WB was started.
o Its size was 16832 bytes...
I did Colorado which sets the full palette by writing a new
Env:Sys/Palette.Prefs, and allocating the colors in the middle. The colors are
taken from either a palette or picture file, and in case of a picture, it
writes out a new Env:Sys/WBPattern.Prefs holding the picture as background
with disabled remap.
The beauty of all this is; If you try to scale'n'remap a picture in ImageFX,
lock the first 8 colors to MWB and render it in 16 colors, you often get
quite good results, then just write "Colorado <PICTURE>", and volla, youre WB
looks superb!
I did this command in june last year, and I was actually planning alot more,
but never got time. Meanwhile alot of my friends commented my always nice
looking WB pictures, and wanted a copy of Colorado, so I thought that
somebody might wanted to take over the source or just the idea...
Included is the source in assembler, and some example pictures in 16 cols.
*** INSTALL: ***
Copy Colorado to C:
Choose a picture, you want to use as background, be sure it uses the correct
WB colors, add this line to your StartUp-Sequence:
Run <>NIL: C:Colorado «YOUR_PICTURE»
Preferable, before WB has loaded (but doesn't matter)
Break colorado by sending it a break.
Instead of a picture, you can also just use a palette file.
Unfortunatly this version doesn't support datatypes, so pict/pal. MUST be
ILBM.
If you're interested in doing something about it, or for other reasons wants
the source, write Duff@DK-Online.DK, also write me if you use the command!