
                          Commodore color test files

  You need the internal viewer of The Star Commander, Version 0.83.12 beta  or
above to be able to properly view the PETSCII art sample  files  contained  in
this package.

  - COLDIST.*: The program computes the difference between each Commodore  and
    EGA color and displays it in CSV format. There is a Microsoft Excel 97 and
    OpenOffice.org 1.1 worksheet, with the data imported, as well. This  table
    may help with finding the best equivalent EGA  color  for  each  Commodore
    color: sort the column of a Commodore color to ascending order and  choose
    one of the EGA colors in the top rows.

  - COLTEST.TXT: PETSCII text  file  with  five  lines  filled  with:  spaces,
    uppercase letter A's, spades (Shift-A's in the  graphics  character  set),
    lowercase letter a's and again uppercase letter A's. In  all  lines,  each
    vertical block of two characters has different colors.

  - EGACOLOR.COM: EGA palette tester program. Use the Cursor Down and Up  keys
    to change the border and background color of the EGA screen to the next or
    previous RGB value. The value is printed in hexadecimal at the upper  left
    corner of the screen. Press Esc to exit the program. Note that changes  to
    the background color are visible in the DOS shells of Windows, too.

  - PROGDOCS.D64: Documentations and intro screens of real programs. View  the
    SDASCREEN file with a fixed line length of 40!

  - ZEPPICS.D64: The SEQ files are real PETSCII art files  from  the  Zeppelin
    BBS. The COLTEST program prints a line of reverse spaces with  all  colors
    onto the screen. The SEQLIST program prints the contents  of  a  SEQ  file
    onto the screen.

  It is worth mentioning that, unfortunately, there is no proper equivalent of
the middle-intensity grey color (POKE 53281, 12) of the C64 palette in the EGA
RGB palette.

  You can find this package at http://sta.c64.org/scbeta.html. Please,  report
comments.

  Joe Forster/STA
  18th September, 2003
