Chapter 8 README File

Chapter 8 contains the following example programs:

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    NOTE: No checking is done to see if the monitor supports the
          requested display mode.  Make sure that the monitor
          you are using supports the display mode you are attempting
          to set!
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OVERLAY.EXE
-initializes and sets up the hardware overlay/scaler of the Radeon. A source
image is repeatedly displayed on the screen with various scaling factors.

CSC.EXE
-the front end scaler of the Radeon is used to perform colour space converted
bit blts.

BMASTER.EXE
-an image is repeatedly bus mastered from system memory to display memory, and
displayed on the screen.

DECODER.EXE
-detects and initializes the Rage Theatre chip.  The input is selectable, and
video quality (hue, saturation, brightness, contrast) is also adjustable.

KEY     AFFECT
Q       Increase brightness
A       Decrease brightness
W       Increase contrast
S       Decrease contrast
E       Increase saturation
D       Increase saturation
R       Increase hue/tint
F       Decrease hue/tint
X       Toggle sharpness (between smooth and sharp)
SPACE   Reset the video levels to default
T       Increase volume
G       Decrease volume
1       Set input to composite
2       Set input to tuner
3       Set input to Svideo
+       Increase the tuner channel
-       Decrease the tuner channel

CC.EXE
-enables closed captioning capture for the Rage Theatre and Rage 128.  The 2
bytes of closed captioning data are displayed on the screen.

VIP.EXE
-sets up and initializes the VIP subsystem on the Rage 128.  VIP is one of the
protocols used for programming the Rage Theatre.  The VIP device number of the
Rage Theatre, as well as it's device ID and revision are returned, if found.

ALPHA.EXE
-performs overlay blending.
