WBDepth (c) Copyright 1987 by Andry Rachmat Have you read the info on how to modify KickStart disk so that you can have 8 colors on the Workbench? Interesting, isn't it? The unfortunate things are you, 500 & 2000 & kickstart on the rom owners, are left in the cold, and it is a hassle if you want to change the depth back and forward (i.e. you need to reboot with different kickstart disk everytime). Well, here comes 'WBDepth' to the rescue.... What WBDepth does is simply changes the number of planes of the WB screen on the fly. No need to reboot, no need to bother with kickstart disk. Usage: WBDepth [number] Example: WBDepth -> will show the current WB screen parameters WBDepth ? -> will show the usage WBDepth 1 -> change to 1 planes (2 colors) WBDepth 2 -> change to 2 planes (4 colors), standard WBDepth 3 -> change to 3 planes (8 colors) WBDepth 4 -> don't try it, unless you are ready to reboot This is CLI only program, [number] is a single digit number 1-5. However, don't use number greater than 3. The ability to use the number greater than 3 is just there to show that the system will screw up, and will hang, and perhaps will guru (CATS: what is wrong here ?). If you want speed use 1, and if you want fanciness use 3 (8 colors). To see the speed variation, here some timing for 'Type'ing a 4000 bytes text file on CLI (Blitzfonts installed). 3 planes: 15 seconds 2 planes: 9 seconds 1 plane : 5.5 seconds (note: no wonder if 'Blitz' can go that fast, being written is assembly plus only using 1 plane for sure will help the speedup). 8 colors will be suitable for self-bootable graphics demo disk. In that case you might need to grab 'SetColor' on the 'WBench8.arc' (this arc file contains the infomation on how to modify the kickstart disk to get 8 colors, and some utility programs). Setcolor will allow you the change the extra 4 colors (color 4-7) automatically. For manual changes you can use 'PopColor' or 'ColorDemo'. All programs mention here are PD or Shareware, and so does this program. It is a Public Domain, dedicated to ALL PD and SHAREWARE authors. Thanks for writing GREAT programs for this GREAT machine that we all LOVE. Also thanks to Sysops across the nation for keeping PD programs distributed. I know it is a dirty job, but somebody got to do it. Finally to you all, AMIGA users, Merry Christmas!!! - Give a big favor will you, spread this program around. Danke! Plink: A*Rachmat Other BBSes: I might be there.