Overview

Early versions of Maxxon BASIC, HiSoft BASIC 1 and Power BASIC were written
before the launch of AGA systems, and therefore lack support for 24 bit
palette and 256 colour screens. This HiSoft Power BASIC AGA support demo
shows you how to program an overscan 8 plane screen and set any of the
256 colours to any 24 bit colour.


Files

Colour.bas is the demonstration program - it includes the crucial:

    SUB Palette32(pen%,red%,green%,blue%)

which takes four parameters, 0 to 255, setting a given pen to the 24 bit
colour indicated by the last three parameters.

PowerAGA.text is an explanation of the program.

Graphics.bmap is an extended BMAP file which includes AGA functions as
well as the original 16 bit Amiga system calls.


Requirements

HiSoftBASIC.library to run the compiled code supplied, as it is not a
stand-alone task.

HiSoft, Power or Maxxon BASIC to recompile the source.


Distribution

This program is copyright 2000 Simon N Goodwin. It may be freely distributed
and included in other programs, but only with attribution. Contact the author
simon@studio.woden.com if you use this, please, to encourage the release of
other such BASIC extensions.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                  593    1233  48.1% -lh5- e3ee Feb 29  2000 PowerAGA.info
[generic]                  892    1612  55.3% -lh5- 4098 Dec 16  1999 PowerAGA/colours
[generic]                  923    1639  56.3% -lh5- a2ed Dec 16  1999 PowerAGA/colours.bas
[generic]                  660     750  88.0% -lh5- 2179 Feb 29  2000 PowerAGA/colours.bas.info
[generic]                 1519    2878  52.8% -lh5- 6d6d Dec 16  1999 PowerAGA/graphics.bmap
[generic]                  590    1092  54.0% -lh5- c20e Feb 29  2000 PowerAGA/PowerAGA.text
[generic]                  660     750  88.0% -lh5- 2be1 Feb 29  2000 PowerAGA/PowerAGA.text.info
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         7 files    5837    9954  58.6%            May 26  2000