Palette Master.

                    ¢1991 Oliver Low

   Welcome to Palette Master. The all-singing, all-dancing,
well, all-working at least, AMOS utility programme.
Palette Master allows you the user to quickly and simply
create wonderfully beautiful palettes for use in your own
programmes with consumate ease. No fuss, No aggravation,
just load and go. You too can have colour control of
proportions never before encountered this side of eighty
quid, amaze your frinds, confound your enemies by prodoucing
subtle spectra and fa....
   OK, enough of the sales pitch and split infinitives.
I wrote Palette master because I was fed up with continually
estimating and modifying all the numbers needed for a
palette statement in AMOS and generally wasting time
guessing colour values and then having to run a program to
use all of them in order to see what they looked like, and
then having to re-estimate those that didn't look quite
right. What Palette Master does is let you modify up to 32
colours on screen, in real time, with sliders, then save the
settings as a Palette statement to use in an AMOS programme.
Its very simple to use, but there is a help page in the
programme ( accessed by pressing the HELP key whilst on the
main screen ) which explains all the functions.
As a palette control programme, Palette Master comes into
its own with a combination of the intelligent spread
function and the range function, which together allow you to
produce the exact shading you want.

   There are three versions of the programme on this disk:
      A stand alone version ("PM"), which will load and
         run automatically when you finish reading this,
         and muti-task with the rest of the system ( as
         demonstrated by the disk access, which is from
         the CLI, after Palette Master is running.
         (PM needs certain library files to run, if you
         run it from a different boot disk you must assign
         libs: to "Palette Master.libs".)
      An AMOS accessory version for use within AMOS
         ("Palette Master.acc")
      And the source code. ("Palette Master_source.amos")

   Also on the disk is a subroutine (saved as ASCII to merge
with an AMOS programme) called "BANG_proc.AMOS" which draws an
explosion on the current screen of variable size and
position. There is a REMark in the subroutine detailing what
arguments need to be passed to it.

BANG_proc is free-ware; its yours to do with as you like.
Palette Master is Shareware; if you use it and like it then
send me a donation ( a couple of quid will be lovely ) to
encourage me to do more stuff. If your more skint than I am
then drop me a line anyway because I genuinely would like to
hear from you. Here's my address :-

      O.J. Low
      18, Hesketh Crescent,
      Towcester,
      Northants.
      NN12 7EH

P.S. There is a slideshow of some pictures by me on the disk.
   Enter "view art" at the CLI to look at them.
P.P.S The AMOS compiler works... Get it !
P.P.P.S Thanks to Francois Lionet for AMOS, may his name be
   carved in silicon.
P.P.P.P.S There is a short piece of music also on the disk.
   Enter "music" at the CLI to hear it. Press both mouse
   buttons simultaneously to stop it playing. Listen to the
   funky bass riff.


Notice:
This disk, and the software and data on it are Public Domain.
(Palette Master is Shareware the rest is Free-ware.)
This document file "wotcher.txt" must remain with the software
wherever it may be distributed.

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