How to make and add your own "fishTank" tanks



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            You can put your own background  drawings  in  the fishTank.

       You can make these drawings  with  any  HAM-mode paint program or

       you  could  even  digitize  them.  These  are  the guidelines for

       fishTank background pictures:

            1.  They  must  be  non-interlaced,  low-res  (320  by  200)

       HAM-mode pictures, without overscan.

            2. They must be  in  the  same  palette  as  all  the  other

       fishTank pictures.

            3. They should be  named  with  a  ".pix"  at  the  end (for

       example: "myTank.pix")  to  easily  identify  them as full-screen

       pictures.

            4. You might not want them to use  colors that aren't in the

       16-color palette. If you  do  use  other  colors  the  fish might

       cause your background to "streak" in places as they swim by. This

       is not a bug, but is an artifact of HAM-mode.