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Pick Super Hires Color (C) 1989 Clinton Wong --Freeware-- --Purpose-- This program is designed to modify the red/blue/green register of the super hires screen and show it on the screen. Once you've found the color of your choice, press a key and it'll tell you the number that represents the color. --Compatabily-- This works fine on my rom 01 IIgs, but it might not on the newer versions. This is mostly due to the fact that I was a bit lazy in some areas, such as writing a constant number to an address that is supposed to be treated with read-modify-write. (Like placing $C1 into $C029) --Program operation-- When first executed, the screen will blank out and it'll wait for you to press something. Here are the keys: Key Purpose ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 screen mode to super-hires 2 screen mode to text r color mode to red g color mode to green b color mode to blue c clear the current color q quit + add to color - take from color Note: the red, blue, and green modes along with clear and quit have to be entered in lower case to be understood. Another one of my lazy program designs. Also, the plus and minus have to be entered as such, so it is easier to use the plus and minus keys on the numeric keypad. While in text mode, one of the important things on the screen are the numbers that represent the color on the screen. It looks like the following: RGB Current color: R 0FB1 This means that the red register has "F" in it, the green has "B" in it, and blue has "1" in it. (Hex of course) This is the main purpose of the program, to give the user the number that represents the color. --Disclaimer-- Most bugs have been taken care of, but one is never sure. The only disk routines used was the quit code, so it shouldn't eat up your hard drive. Don't use this program if you want to sue for "accidental" program dammage. --Communication-- I can be reached on America Online under the handle of PsychoPunk. I can also be contacted at Clinton D. Wong P.O. Box 433 Gurnee, IL 60031 Donations, comments, or questions, please direct them to this address. Be on the lookout for demos and other programs to be released by myself in the near future. (Good animation and sound are to be expected) --Work-- It didn't take much effort to do this, only an hour or so. Some might ask themselves, "why did he release a simple and useless program like this?" I don't have many tech manuals, and my knowledge of IIgs programming is lower than usual. (Most of my programs are a mixture of 16 bit and 8 bit instructions.) Not to mention that my library of programs are somewhat low for the IIgs. Thus, I was in need of determining the number that represents a color but lacked the program to do so. I hope my limited knowledge of IIgs toolbox calls and instructions won't make future program quality to suffer. Hopefully, there are others in my shoes who are also in need of such a program. If you don't need such, feel free to save yourself the disk space. Other than that, enjoy! :)