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MVP Paint - 256 Color VGA Image Workshop
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| Table of Contents Page |
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| Registration Benefits and Ordering Information . . . 2 |
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| MVP Paint Professional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 |
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| Special Offer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 |
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| Order Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 |
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| General Helpful Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 |
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| Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 |
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| File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 |
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| The Menuing System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 |
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| The Palette System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 |
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| The Palette Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 |
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| Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 |
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| Programmer's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 |
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| Foreign Ordering Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 |
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MVP Software is a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP).
ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are
unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting
the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you
resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical
support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover
Road, Muskegon, MI 49442-9427 or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail
to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.
This is an unregistered copy of MVP Paint. For the benefits of registration,
and for a complete description of a special upgrade offer to MVP Paint
Professional, and a special CompuServe membership money-saving offer, please
see pages 2 and 3 of the following documentation.
IMPORTANT
IF YOU NEED TECHNICAL SUPPORT INSTALLING OR USING THIS PRODUCT, DO NOT CALL
OUR 800 TOLL-FREE ORDER NUMBER. THIS NUMBER IS FOR ORDERS ONLY. THE PEOPLE
WHO ANSWER THIS ORDER LINE HAVE NO TECHNICAL INFORMATION AND WILL NOT BE ABLE
TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS. THEY WILL SIMPLY REFER YOU TO THIS NUMBER:
616-245-8376
SO PLEASE CALL THIS NUMBER THE FIRST TIME AND SAVE YOURSELF THE TIME AND
TROUBLE OF MAKING TWO PHONE CALLS. THANKS.
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MVP Paint is a full-featured graphics workshop. With MVP Paint you can easily
create or modify graphics or animation files. It supports a variety of
advanced features, and has been used to develop two MVP Software games, Sand
Storm and Corncob 3D. Originally created as an in-house game development
tool, it has been tested extensively in real-world applications. Game
designers and others demanding performance will like its combination of
features and ease of use.
MVP Paint is available for you to evaluate as shareware. This means you are
free to put the software through its paces for a 30 day evaluation period.
The small fee you may have paid to download the software from a BBS or online
service, or to receive an evaluation disk from a disk vendor, is a distribution
fee only. THE DISTRIBUTION FEE DOES NOT GO TO MVP SOFTWARE.
After the 30-day evaluation period, you are required to either register the
software, or give it to a friend. Under no circumstances are you permitted
to use the software beyond the 30-day evaluation period without registering
it. MVP Paint is copyrighted software and is protected by US copyright law
and international copyright conventions. It is not public domain.
IF YOU HAVE PURCHASED MVP PAINT IN A STORE OR FOUND IT ON A CD-ROM
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If you have purchased MVP Paint in a store or other retail setting, or if you
have found it on a CD-ROM, please contact MVP Software at (616) 245-8376.
Please have the address and phone number of the CD-ROM publisher, or of the
company that has sold it in the retail store. If we determine that the company
or publisher is distributing MVP Paint without written authorization from MVP
Software, we will send you a free computer game as a thank-you for helping us
eliminate unauthorized distribution of this software.
SHAREWARE VENDORS, DISTRIBUTORS, RACK VENDORS, BBS SYSOPS, & CD-ROM PUBLISHERS
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The shareware version of MVP Paint may be distributed by catalog shareware
vendors and BBS sysops as long as the distribution terms outlined in
LICENSE.DOC are adhered to. These terms are very simple, and we encourage BBS
and catalog distribution. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MAY MVP PAINT BE DISTRIBUTED
IN A RETAIL STORE OR ENVIRONMENT, OR ON A CD-ROM, WITHOUT WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION
FROM MVP SOFTWARE. Please see LICENSE.DOC for details.
WHAT IS REGISTRATION
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When you register a shareware product, you purchase it from the author. In
the case of MVP Paint you have two options. If you find that MVP Paint meets
all your needs, then simply register by calling 800-968-9684 and using your
Visa or Master Card. (Outside the US or Canada call (616) 245-8376.) The
price is $35 plus $3 shipping. You will receive a copy of the latest version
of the software and 90 days free technical support.
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MVP PAINT PROFESSIONAL
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Many users will want instead to purchase MVP Paint Professional. MVP Paint
Professional is not a shareware product. It is the "big brother" of MVP
Paint, and is commercial only. MVP Paint Professional includes a printed
manual, free technical support for one year, the MVP Toolkit, and the Pod Bay
Graphics Library. The toolkit can modify palettes, convert color images to
greyscale images (2 to 64 shades), display images, downscale images using a
sophisticated anti-aliasing technique, and even turn your image into
compilable BASIC, Pascal, or C code! This code can then be compiled, or
imported into an existing program.
In addition to the toolkit, MVP Paint Professional includes the Pod Bay
Graphics Library. This library consists of 30 linkable graphics routines for
Pascal and C programmers that provide a quick and easy way to write graphics
programs in VGA mode 19 (320x200x256). These routines are fast and provide
quick bypass to the .BGI files that you might otherwise have to load. The
image routines found in these libraries use images that are created by MVP
Paint and have a .VGA file extension.
Here is a list of the routines included in