measured in WORDS
ENDR
* Programs
REPT Number_Of_Programs
Prog_NN dc.w Length Of Prog_NN
dc.b "The program in plain Ascii"
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THE RESOURCE BANK
The Resource bank is used to hold all the control buttons and icons used by the AMOS
Professional INTERFACE commands. The Resource bank is split into three main sections. There
is one area for the button definitions, another for the command strings and a third for messages.
dc.b "Resource"
Start dc.l Images-Start * Offset to the compressed images (optional)
dc.l Texts-Start * Offset to the message list (optional)
dc.l DBL-Start * Offset to the Interface program (optional)
dc.l 0 * Reserved for future expansion
* The compressed images go here
* These are used by the UNpack, Line and BOx commands from the Interface
Images dc.w Number_Of_Images Holds the number of parts
REPT Number_Of_Images
dc.l Image_NN-Images Offset to the start of each part
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* We now enter full details of the screen from which the images were grabbed
dc.w Number_Of_Colours
dc.w Graphic_Mode In the same format as SCREEN OPEN
(Lowres, Hires, Laced)
ds.w 32 Holds the colour palette for the images
dc.w Length_Of_Name Now the name of the source image
dc.b "Full_Path_Name" This is a name in simple Ascii format
dc.b 0 Pad out the byte, if not even
* Each image is a normal packed bitmap, in "pic.pac" format
* At this moment, there are only two possible image types
* Simple image
Image_NN:
dc.b Packed_data Internal to the screen packer!
* Alternatively, the data can be a BOx definition, a Line definition
* or comments on a specific image, entered in the resource bank_maker.
* in this case, a magic number, =$ABCD will be immediately BEFORE
* the graphic data.
Res_NN:
dc.b "name " 8 bytes, Ascii
dc.w Number_Of_Images A BOx needs 9 images, Lines need 3
and a simple image has only 1
dc.w $ABCD
dcb.b Packed_Data
* These types can be mixed in any order, so it is acceptable
* to put the comment line BEFORE the button definition