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- To all aspiring Amigalites:
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- 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):
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- - 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.
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- - All right, first open Prefs, put interlace on, Save and re-boot.
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- - After re-booting you should be in interlace mode. Open the Bench
- window and drag it to the bottom half of the screen.
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- - 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.
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- - With the DU on the top half of the screen, pop open Prefs and drag to
- the bottom half.
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- - 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
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- 0 6 0 7
- 0 7 0 5
- 5 7 0 0
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- - 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!
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- For our example we'll use good ol' IconEd. The file would read something
- like this:
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- The Lace and Laceless in the devs2 dir are my SetPref settings for the two
- modes, yours to check out.
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- Well, have fun!!
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- It enables you to recognize a mistake
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