[comp.sys.amiga] Programmers, read this! Doug's Color Commander

haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) (03/07/88)

>P.S. Since the Amy IS open-arch. is it possible to write a hack to fix those
>colors? Perhaps a teensy-weensy program, that stays at sleep in the machine,
>then when a certain key-combination is pressed, it finds all active screens
>and changes the color tables to match the "intended" colors. Perhaps a little
>code to exclude the workbench screens and windows?
>     Of course, the ideal solution is to have some kind of a wedge to do
>the actual translation when a new screen or window comes up. This wouldn't
>look so good if that game is not the only process in the Amiga?
>     Am I reinventing the wheel? Is there already a "cure" out there? If so,
>I'd give an arm and a leg for it.

        I'm currently alpha testing a great program called "Dougs' Color
Commander" by Seven Seas' Software (makers of "Dougs' Math Aquarium").  This
program allows you to attach to a screen and modify its color map.  It is easy
to use, complete, and very well laid out.  You can control the colors flexably
and easily.  It should be realeased in a few months.  Any program I get for my
Amiga, which digs into structures at this level, and doesn't bomb my system in
over a week of constant multi-tasking useage (as best I can tell???), gets an
A in my book.   This one gets an A++.  How much should they charge?  (ie:
What's fair?).

        Your all going to lov.
 v dsafkds!  :^>


                                                         Wade.


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