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CU Amiga Magazine's Super CD-ROM 18 (1997)(EMAP Images)(GB)[!][issue 1998-01].iso
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This text can be printed with a word processor, or by typing the
following command in a Shell window:
Copy PPaint:ReadMe.txt PRT:
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Cloanto Personal Paint 6.6
This directory contains an exclusive edition of Personal Paint version
6.6, prepared for the readers of
CU Amiga.
A description of new features
of Personal Paint 7.1 follows in this text, while a special upgrade offer
to the full version 7.1 CD-ROM is included in the same issue of CU
Amiga.
Hard Disk Installation
To install Personal Paint 6.6 to your hard disk, just open the Workbench
window of the destination directory, and drag-and-drop the floppy disk
icon into it. Personal Paint does not require any particular Assign
instructions to run, although assigning the logical name "PPaint" to the
program directory is useful to tell the system where to look for Personal
Paint when an artwork file is double-clicked on. If, for example, the
"PPaint" drawer is installed in the partition named "Work", you could add
the following command to the "S:user-startup" file:
Assign PPaint: Work:PPaint
Personal Paint also runs directly from the cover disk (without hard disk
installation). In order to make the software fit on a single floppy disk,
the Personal Paint program file has been compressed using the Imploder
software. When you double-click on the "PPaint" program icon, the
software is decompressed automatically. If you installed the software to
your hard drive, you may want to decompress the program file, so that it
can load faster and using less memory (since it does not have to be
decompressed each time it is run). To create a decompressed executable
file, type the following command in a Shell window (assuming that the
software is in "Work:PPaint"):
CD Work:PPaint
Deplode PPaint
Visit Cloanto on the World Wide Web and on Aminet!
The Cloanto web site contains the latest news, answers to frequently
asked questions, product descriptions, distributor addresses, upgrade
information and support files:
http://www.cloanto.com/amiga/
The Aminet archives (available on the Internet and on CD-ROM) contain a
special Cloanto section in:
biz/cloan
If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to write us:
info@cloanto.com
We continue to invest in the Amiga in a very difficult moment. Thank you
for your support!
Your Cloanto Team
The new features of the Personal Paint 7.1 CD-ROM (compared to version
6.6) include:
- New and improved file formats, including GIF (licensed by Unisys),
24-bit DataTypes, PBM and TIM (loads TIM graphics files directly from
Sony PlayStation CDs, with extended TIM saving options features for
developers)
- Professional Internet features like GIF animations, a map editor, and
everything needed to achieve maximum image quality in a compact size
- 181 ARexx commands, with dozens of scripts directly accessible from
the toolbar
- New "plug-in" library system makes it possible to add input/output
formats (for files, scanners, screens, etc.) and to replace critical
Amiga blitter and CPU code with a combination of "virtual blitter"
and other logic fully exploiting the different configurations (68040,
PowerPC, etc.)
- Automatically create directory thumbnails for entire directories
- New Rexx scripts, including text animation and animation paths
- Improved blitter emulation and support of third-party graphics.library
enhancements to store all bitmaps in Fast RAM instead of Chip RAM
- Improved support for environments like Siamese RTG, UAE and PowerPC
- New user interface languages (now totalling 16 languages)
- Improved and extended manuals (in English, German and Italian)
- Special versions of Personal Paint compiled for different CPUs
- Cloanto Internet graphics DataTypes
- GIF utilities by third parties
- Cloanto ColorType 3.1 software
- First Amiga software (excluding tools for developers) shipping with
PowerPC code (Personal Paint PPC blitting library)
- New in the CD-ROM edition: developer documentation, reorganized
manuals (no addenda - all in the right place), tutorial animations,
extended artwork
For additional information, including distribution and upgrades, as well
as other Cloanto products, such as Amiga Forever, The Kara Collection and
the Personal Suite, please visit the Cloanto web site at
<http://www.cloanto.com>.
Brand New from Cloanto: Amiga Forever!
Amiga Forever is a cross-platform Amiga integration solution, providing
tools ranging from Amiga Explorer, to connect an Amiga to the PC and
access all Amiga drives from the Windows desktop, to an official and easy
to use Amiga emulation environment with original Amiga ROM and OS files.
For more information, please refer to the Amiga Forever home page:
http://www.cloanto.com/amiga/forever/
Presenting The Kara Collection CD-ROM
It took 10 years of hard work to create the superb art which is contained
on this CD-ROM. The Kara Collection includes all packages previously
published by Kara Computer Graphics for the Amiga, plus many more, in an
exclusive and professional edition reorganized and enhanced by Cloanto.
This CD-ROM contains 80 ColorFonts (including effects like brick, glass,
chrome, chisel, etc.), 5 AnimFonts (handwriting, rotating characters,
static wipes, sparkles, etc.), hundreds of alternate colour palettes,
Starfields (moving stars seen from different perspectives), Plaquegrounds
(backgrounds such as granite, marble, sand-stone, wood, etc.), and
software for special effects in pictures, animations, titling and
presentations. All items for solo or combined use.
The Kara Collection also includes two software packages developed by
Cloanto to manage bitmapped fonts: ColorType for colour fonts and the
Personal Fonts Maker for black and white fonts. Both have been acclaimed
as the best in their respective fields.
To make AnimFonts really easy and enjoyable to use, we created an ARexx
program for Personal Paint, which renders any string of characters into
animated text. As Kara says, "So long to the laborious task of placing
individual letters... This is the way AnimFonts were meant to be!!!"
Another Quality Amiga CD-ROM from Cloanto: Personal Suite
This CD-ROM includes Personal Paint 6.4 and Personal Write 4.1 from
Cloanto, SBase 4 Personal (from Oxxi), Personal Fonts Maker 1 & 2
(Cloanto), 27 professional colour fonts, an animated font, Cloanto's
DirDiff (file synchronization and replication software) and PNG Toolkit,
plus ½ Gbyte of pictures, animations, stereograms, stereogram animations,
Amiga fonts, printer downloadable fonts and texts.
The CD-ROM contains no public domain or shareware software. The
commercial titles are the latest versions available, with full AmigaGuide
manuals (English and German, with some titles also in Italian and
French).
Famous Amiga artists like Jim Sachs participated with a selection of
their best Amiga art. Also included, a compilation of animations by Eric
Schwartz, for the first time in IFF ANIM format.
Legal Notes
This material is part of a special edition for the December 1997 issue of
CU Amiga, and is not freely distributable.
Personal Paint main program, support files and programs, screens,
artwork, manual and image collection, Copyright © 1992-1997 Cloanto
Italia srl (Cloanto), unless otherwise indicated in the files or in the
documentation which is part of the commercial distribution published by
Cloanto. Parts are licensed from third parties. This compilation is
Copyright © 1997 Cloanto Italia srl. All rights reserved. No part of the
Personal Paint disk or drawer containing this text may be reproduced,
transmitted or stored in any form or by any means without the prior
written permission of Cloanto.
The default Workbench icons written by Personal Paint are freely
distributable. No copyright notice is required when redistributing these
icon files. The executable file decompression modules were written by
Peter Struijk and Albert J. Brouwer. The PNG compression procedures were
inspired by source code of Jean-Loup Gailly. The JPEG code is based in
part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. Photo CD I/O code is
included with Personal Paint under license of Eastman Kodak Company.
This software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, either
expressed or implied, statutory or otherwise. By using the software and
data files, you accept the entire risk as to its quality and
performance.
Amiga is a registered trademark of Amiga International, Inc. Cloanto and
the Cloanto logo are registered trademarks, and Amiga Forever, ColorType,
Personal Paint, Personal Suite and The Kara Collection are trademarks of
Cloanto Italia srl. PlayStation is a registered trademark of Sony
Computer Entertainment Inc.
For additional disclaimers and trademark, patent, copyright and other
legal information please refer to the documentation included with the
full commercial package, which can be requested via E-mail.
All information contained herein is subject to change without notice.