What is Magic Copper?
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Legal stuff.
Copyright ©1992-1994 by Christian A. Weber, Bruggerweg 2, CH-8037 Zürich, Switzerland. THIS PROGRAM IS SHAREWARE. IF YOU LIKE IT, SEND ME SOMETHING (US $10 IS APPROPRIATE) AND YOU WILL BECOME A REGISTERED USER. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. NO WARRANTY. NO REFUNDS. NO CARRIER. IT IS ILLEGAL TO DISTRIBUTE THIS PROGRAM ON DISKS WHICH COST MORE THAN US $5 PER FLOPPY DISK, OR MORE THAN US $30 PER CD. DISTRIBUTION IN CONJUNCTION WITH 'MAGICWB' IS AUTHORIZED.
Description.
Magic Copper lets you create rainbow color effects for a selectable pen color number on the Workbench screen, using the entire 16 million color range of the AGA chips. You specify the color of the first and the last line of the screen, and Magic Copper will make a smooth color change by setting a new color value on every scanline. You can use the built-in configuration window to add or remove color effects. A set of built-in effects is provided for the use with the MagicWB-AGA-Patterns with the same name as the patterns.
Tooltypes.
Magic Copper recognizes the following tooltypes, which can be changed by clicking on the Magic Copper icon and selecting "Information..." from Workbench's "Icon"-menu: Name Example Function -------------------------------------------------------------- CX_POPKEY ctrl alt w Selects the key which will open the configuration window CX_POPUP Yes | No If set to Yes, the configuration window will open whenever the program is run. CX_PRIORITY 0 Not very useful. Just ignore it. COLORNUMBER 8 Pen number of the color to change. A value of 0 means background color, 1 is normally the text color, 3 is for window borders, etc. Must be in the range of 0 to 255. STEP 4 Number of lines between color changes. Defaults to 3. If you have a fast processor, you may set this to 2 or 1, which will look a tad better, but gives slower screen movement. BORDERBLANK If this tooltype is present, Magic Copper will change the border color to black. This is on by default. RANDOMFX If present, Magic Copper picks a random effect out of your effect list rather than using the active one. EFFECT These are the effect entries. You should use the configuration window to change them, and not edit the tooltypes directly. The effects are stored in the following format: EFFECTstartcolor - A six digit hexadecimal number specifying the color of the first line of the screen. The first two digits select the red level, the next two digits the green and the last two digits the blue level. So a startcolor of 0xF765E3 would give you a nice pink (0xF7 for red, 0x65 for green and 0xE3 for blue; 00 is dark and FF is bright). endcolor - A six digit hexadecimal number specifying the color of the last line of the screen. flags - Bit 0: If set, this effect is selected. Only one effect may have this bit set at a time. Bit 4: If set, 'startcolor' is ignored and a random number is used as start color. Bit 5: If set, 'endcolor' is ignored and a random number is used as end color. name - The name of the effect.
Author.
Christian A. Weber Internet: weber@relog.ch, weber@amiga.icu.net.ch Limmat-NET: chris@limmat.net.ch CBMNET: chris@mighty.adsp.sub.org Snail mail: Bruggerweg 2, CH-8037 Zürich, Switzerland.