Best and quickest way to grab Copperlist colors as source code

[KONEY]

Hello,


I'm looking for a quick way to grab an actual copper color list, possibly as ASM source ready to paste into code.



Any suggestion? Some WinUAE tool could be OK but if some trick for real hardware exists would be even better!


Thanks

[DanScott]

http://deadliners.net/gradientmaster/

Try this... it doesn't ouput the colour registers, so you can't paste straight into a copperlist

But would take 2 minutes to code a function to populate the copperlist

[KONEY]

Thanks DanScott, that's a nice tool!

But maybe I did not explained fully so I'll start again. I wrote a small routine which inserted in a mainloop allows me to change the colors in the copper by using the joystick. This after I realized I had to change-and-compile some hundred times when coding because in graphics effect having the right shade can change everything. So I needed a kind of editor to embed during development to be able to visually adjust color values. And from here the need to quickly export the actual copper color list again back into code.

Likely options I thinked of:
some trick with asm-pro which I don't know
some trick with winuae which I don't know
copy values to registers then grab them from winuae debug
add some code so when quitting values are sent to cli output

[DanScott]

you could save the area of memory in the WinUAE debugger perhaps ?

create a routine somewhere that goes:

lea AddressOfColours,a0
move.w #size,d0
clr.w $100


then use the "w" command to set a memory watch breakpoint on $100

w 1 100 (i think?)


winuae will break on the "clr.w $100" and A0 will contain your address, and D0 the size

you can then use the "save memory to file" command..don't remember what it is exactly

[Jobbo]

Seems to me like the easiest process would be to have your Amiga exe read a file with the copper list color values and apply them. Then hook that up to some key or button press so you can reload at any time.

After that you just need a process for updating the file. Since Winuae exposes the Amiga file system to your PC you can implement whatever you want on the PC side of things to edit that file.

I'm not sure how fragile the Amiga library file system is when you are taking over the system, but I imagine you'll have to take a little care to make sure you restore part of the system and then re-take it each time you want the file to reload.

[KONEY]

Originally Posted by DanScott

you can then use the "save memory to file" command..don't remember what it is exactly

Could work but I'd end up with some binary data...

[Photon]

Asm-Pro should support the ih command?

If you write the colors into your own Copper (or one you have a pointer to), you can use this to get Copper source after exiting (unless the memory for it is explicitly deallocated).

[KONEY]

Thanks Photon, "ih" method almost works. Just need it to output words and not bytes.

[Photon]

It works like the h command (and some others): append .w or .l to hexedit in words or longwords.

[KONEY]

ih.w works and it's exactly what I needed! Thanks Photon!