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                         COLOUR MONITOR V1.1 DOCS
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                              by Ivor King
                             written 14/7/92


    Welcome to the COLOUR MONITOR V1.1 DOCS.  First a little about the program
itself, which is PUBLIC DOMAIN, which means you can copy it free of charge.

    COM was programmed in AMOS V1.3, and is a small programming utility to
aid other AMOS programmers, and it may also be useful for programmers of other
languages.

    As its name suggests, it is mainly concerned with colours, their Red, Green
and Blue values, Registers, Integer values and their Hexadecimal values.  It
has a number of main fuctions, these are: to choose colour palettes for screens
to show the colours of particular integers, hexadecimal values, and the default
colours which AMOS sets to each register at the opening of a screen.  On top
of this, you can also print out the resultant colour statistics (Note: only
possible in `Mouse Mode').

    Why is it useful? well, take for example the case of the tired programmer,
he is in search of that elusive shade of yellow which he wants in the backgroud
for his new game.  He has opened a screen, and he has spent the last 15 minutes
trying to guess the integer value of this particular colour which he wants.
He could be guessing for a long time,depending on his experience or willingness
to remember the individual colours of 4096 different numbers. And eventually he
gives up, having to settle for a weird musty greeny-white colour, with a
slight tingey taint of yellow.

    His/her life could have been a lot easier if he had COM.  It would have
taken him only a few minutes to find his colour, and he would have ended up
choosing his whole colour palette in under around 8 minutes.

    This is what COM is for, it is designed to make your life (if you`re a
programmer) a lot easier, and the task of programming much less repetative.
It allows you to choose your colours, from a massive palette of 4096, a palette
which you can then use in you program by assigning your chosen colours to the
various registers of your screen using the `Colour' command.

    For instructions on how to use the program, load it up, it has contained
within it all the instructions necessary for you to operate to its full
capacity.

    On this disk is:

                COMV1_1.AMOS
                COMV1_1.ASC
                COMV1.1
                COMV1_1.DOCS

    These are the DOCS, `COMV1.1' is the compiled and executable version,
compiled by the AMOS Compiler V1.0.  The source AMOS code is included, it is
saved under the name `COMV1_1.AMOS', which can be loaded straight into the
editor.  Feel free to play around with this as much as you like, but make
sure you don`t recompile it and spread it under a different name or author!
If you want a look at the program, and you don`t have the AMOS editor, load
up `COMV1.1  ASCII LISTING' (SHIFT+F2)  from the disk MENU, here you will find
its ASCII listing.  The executable version has been crunched with PowerPacker.

    I hope you find this program useful, and spread it around as much as
possible!.  Special greetinx to all those other AMOS programmers out there,
for an extended greetinx list run the Disk DOCS and INFO demo on disk.

    If you find any bugs, or have any ideas for improvements, contact me at:

                        23 Waterford Avenue
                        Waterford (in Perth)
                      Western Australia, 6152
                         ph. (09) 450 5495


Cheers...