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- SPECTRAPAINT VERSION 3.1
- ============ ======= ===
-
- (C)1991 Twilight Software
- Released as freeware providing this documentation is distributed with it.
-
- FREEWARE:
- TRY IT - USE IT - COPY IT - SHARE IT - BUT DON`T CHANGE IT!
-
- History of Spectrapaint
-
- All these versions are 512K+
- 1.0 Crud!, not much really. Released in compilation.
- 1.1 Never released
- 1.2 Never released
- 1.3 First materialisation in Crazy Joe's PD library in a compilation.
- 1.4 Distributed via a few BBS's
- 1.5 Distributed via AMOS PD library
- 1.6 Never released
- 1.7 Released in Crazy Joe's PD library
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- All these versions are 1MB+
- 2.0 Released in AMOS PD library, now on it's own disk. Loads of updates.
- 2.1 Very restricted release. Only 5 copies ever distributed. NOT PD.
- 3.0 Released in Crazy Joe's PD library and the AMOS PD library.
- 3.1 Updated font requester, change screen mode, ram banks. Bugs fixed.
- 3.2 Who knows???
-
- If you only have 512K, sorry, but spectrapaint is too big to load into your
- machines. Why haven't you upgraded yet?
- If you do have 512K, simply send me this disk, along with an SAE, and I will
- send you a copy of V1.7 which will work on your machine. Send it to the
- Twilight Software address.
-
- Starting:
- From the CLI
- Use RAMOS SpectrapaintV3_0
-
- From the Workbench
- Simply double click on Spectrapaint's icon
-
- From AMOS
- Select load and double click on SpectrapaintV3_0
- You will have to change the search path first from :*.* to :
-
- A list of files included:
- SpectrapaintV3_0
- Spectrapaint.DOC
- RAMOS
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- WARNING: USE AMOS 1.21 OR ABOVE ONLY TO LOAD SPECTRAPAINT OR ELSE
- MR.GURU WILL VISIT YOUR AMIGA!
-
- When Spectrapaint has loaded, the mode requestor will appear. Choose a
- suitable mode and then click OK.
-
- The writing of Spectrapaint V3.0
- === ======= == ============ ====
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- Spectrapaint V3.0 was written using AMOS 1.21
- (AMOS is (C)1990 Mandarin/Jawx)
-
- The following software was used in the writing:
- AMOS 1.21
- DPAINT 2
- ED (!)
-
- The toolkit
- === =======
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- Along the bottom of the screen you will see the tool bar. Clicking an icon on
- this tool bar will activate it's function. Clicking a colour with the left
- mouse button will select it as the ink colour. Clicking a colour with the
- right mouse button will select it as the paper colour.
-
- From left to right, top to bottom:
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- Click below applies to the left or right mouse button (ink or paper).
-
- TOP ROW:
- 1..Dotted line
- Click and draw!
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- 2..Continuous line
- Click and draw!
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- 3..Straight vectors
- Click the start or the line and hold down the mouse button. Release it at
- the end of the line
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- 4..Boxes
- Click one corner and drag the box to the required size. Release the mouse
- button at the required size.
-
- 5..Filled boxes
- As boxes, but fills in the current fill colour and style.
-
- 6..Circles
- Click the centre of the circle and drag out to the radius. Release the
- mouse button at the required size.
-
- 7..Filled circles
- As circles, but fills in the current fill colour and style.
-
- 8..Spray
- Sprays in the current colour and at the current size.
-
- 9..Text
- Type in text. Left mouse button to fix, Right mouse button to write in
- paper colour.
-
- 10.Cut
- Cut a brush. Move to top left of desired area, click and drag to bottom
- right of desired area and release.
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- 11.Paste
- Allows you to paste whatever is in the cut paste buffer. Click left mouse
- button somewhere on the screen to paste a copy.
-
- 12.Flip left-right
- Toggle switch to flip brush along vertical axis.
-
- 13.Flip up-down
- Toggle switch to flip brush along horizontal axis.
-
- 14.RGB filter
- Filters a desired colour out of the entire palette. Useful for video work.
-
- 15.Back box
- Moves the tool bar back to the default position at the bottom of the
- screen.
-
- 16.The drag box
- This box occupies the right hand quarter of the top row of the icon bar.
- Click on it and drag the tool bar out of the way. The palette bar will
- also move with it. This box also gives various short messages.
-
- BOTTOM ROW:
- 1..Make brush smaller
- Shrinks the brush used for option 1 on the top icon bar, or shrinks the
- size of the spray can.
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- 2..Make brush larger
- Has negative effect of option 1.
-
- 3..Fill
- Clicking in a shape will cause it to be filled with the current colour
- and pattern.
-
- 4..Parallelogram
- Click on the screen, and release. Move the mouse until the base is the
- required length, the click and drag the top of the parallelogram to the
- required position.
-
- 5..Filled parallelogram
- As 4 but filled with current colour and pattern.
-
- 6..Triangle
- Click one corner, click second corner, click third corner. Simple, eh?
-
- 7..Filled Triangle
- As 6 but fills with current colour and pattern.
-
- 8..Rays
- Click centre for all rays, then click wherever you want a ray to go to.
- Click the right mouse button to bring the menu back up.
-
- 9..Choose font
- Chooses font for use with text (on top tool bar part).
-
- 10.Magnify
- Draw in ink or paper colour on large grid. Magnification buttons are
- down right hand side, as are movement buttons.
-
- 11.Pattern
- Choose pattern for all fills. Note that ink and paper colours are used
- for the pattern.
-
- 12.Pick
- Click a place on the screen and your present colour will change to that
- one. Useful to find a colour from a picture when lots of the colours are
- very similar.
-
- 13.Undo
- Undo's last drawing operation.
-
- 14.Ram Banking *** NEW ***
- Select a ram bank (1-3) to store the screen in. SAVE stores the screen,
- LOAD calls up a screen stored in the selected ram bank, ERASE emptys the
- current ram bank (freeing up any memory used by it). Note that the
- palette is stored with a screen.
-
- 15.Info
- Click and see!
-
- 16.Not yet implimented. Anyone written a screen copy routine?
-
- 17.Disk
- Allows disk access. Load & Saving of Pictures, Brushes & Palettes.
-
- 18.Palette
- Allows changing of colours by RGB method. Note special functions:
- SPRAY:Allows multi coloured spray can (in colour range)
- RANGE:Allows choice of colour range by following method:
- 1) Click starting colour
- 2) Click range
- 3) Click finishing colour
- > & <:Allows colour cycling (in specified direction)
- Off :Turns colour cycling off
- The slider bar below the <>Off arrangement allows setting of speed
- for colour cycling from slow (left) to fast (right).
-
- 19.Clear
- Clears the screen (Can be undone by clicking UNDO)
-
- 20.WB
- Exit program (you are prompted first).
- *** NEW ***
- If you click the first requestor to exit, a second requestor will appear
- asking if you want to go to the workbench, or restart. Clicking
- WORKBENCH will take you back to the workbench. Clicking RESTART will
- restart the program allowing you to choose a new screen mode.
-
- Known problem:
- A small block appears at the top left of the screen after you have loaded it
- from the ram banks.
-
- WARNING: In rare cases of VERY SEVERE MEMORY SHORTAGE, the program may crash
- returning you to the workbench. To avoid this, I recommend that 1MB
- users avoid picking up very large brushes.
-
- Disclaimer:
- If you lose 8 hours work by use of this program (even if you do as it says
- above) don't blame Twilight Software, or anyone else for that matter. I am
- not taking responsibility for the reliability of this program. You use this
- program at your own risk.
-
- ADDITIONS:
- Palettes from V1.0 > V2.1 will not load.
-
- Many thanks to...
- All the people who wrote to me with bug reports, suggestions etc.
-
- At your request I have added...
- "RAM disk" (4 pics in memory at once)
- Better font requester
- Restart program option
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- If you want to contact me (about future releases, updates, giving me some
- money, problems, bug reports, etc..)
-
- Twilight Software
- 4 Brunt Road
- Rawmarsh
- Rotherham
- South Yorkshire
- England
- S62 5EW
-
- Make cheques payable to K.K.Hudson (Do I sense a subtle hint there?)
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- Until spectrapaint V3.2 ...
-
- Kris
-