Don,
I still haven't made it downstairs but I looked up a listing of mine…try this
in the beginning of your program:
CLS SCREEN 1,320,200,5,1 WINDOW 2,"Don's Program",,31,1
The '5' in the Screen statement is the operative code because it tells
AmigaBasic you want to use 5 bit planes which is 2^5 colors (32)…(all you
techies, please bear with my pidgeon programming talk!)
Now use the PALETTE statement to set up which 32 colors you want, use COLOR to
set up the foreground and background colors and you can LINE, CIRCLE, AREA,
AREAFILL etc to your heart's content.
Personally, I find it most usefull to put on a Grateful Dead album, preferably
with Dark Star on it, prior to using more than sixteen colors. Please forgive
the misspelling of "useful" above.