Short:        320x256x8 50 FPS C2P on A1200/030 & more
Author:       bevilacq@cli.di.unipi.it (Simone Bevilacqua)
Uploader:     bevilacq cli di unipi it (Simone Bevilacqua)
Type:         dev/misc
Replaces:     dev/misc/TCS.lha
Requires:     AGA, 020+ CPU, KS 2.04+
Architecture: m68k-amigaos



Yes, it's true!
And the MC68060 reaches even 73+ FPS!

Yet, there's a lot more.

The Tricky Color System (TCS) is a new, fantastic, software-only, video
system which provides some new cool video modes on normal AGA Amigas by
exploiting some basic concepts of the composition of colors.
It comes in the shape of a shared library, but, if you want, you can
write you own routines thanks to the detailed documentation which fully
describes the system's internals.



TCS and tcs.library features list:

 - chunky access, i.e. a pixel is read/written with a single access to
   memory
 - TrueColor-like pixels, i.e. the value of a pixel is its own RGBx value,
   not an index to a color lookup table
 - 2 horizontal resolutions: HalfRes, FullRes (280 ns, 140 ns pixels)
 - all the display sizes allowable by the Amiga hardware
 - screens of any size (limited only by the available memory)
 - 256 independently selectable colors per screen
 - up to 256 unique colors per screen
 - variable display brightness
 - Cross Playfield mode (a kind of Dual Playfield mode without a trasparent
   color and with variable front playfield opacity)
 - Dual Cross Playfield mode (Cross Playfield mode with selectable
   transparent color)
 - up to 337 unique indipendent colors in Dual Cross Playfield mode
 - multiple RGB-like color definitions, named "RGBx"
 - scrollable screens with horizontal increments of 35 ns
 - double and triple buffered screens
 - many graphic primitives + several other special graphic functions
 - Graphic Contexts -based displays/graphic functions
 - functions for pixmaps handling
 - functions for fonts handling
 - functions for pictures files handling
 - functions for palette/color control

 & even more!