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- H U N T E R S O F T
-
- Presents
-
- Graphics Utilities Disk One
-
- Contents
-
- 1. MegaColour V1.0 - A program which transforms a B/W screen into a
- full colour screen (320*256,64 Colour).
- 2. Halver - A program designed to create half sized images of
- graphics, similar to the halve option of paint
- packages, with a few more options.
- 3. Slideshow - This is simply a slideshow creator to allow you
- to link up pictures into a slideshow.
- 4. Slideview - A program with which to view a slideshow created
- with the slideshow creator.
-
- All above programs were designed and created by Nick Stacey with the aid of
- AMOS, AMOS Compiler, DPaintIV & DScanPro and are the property of HUNTERSOFT.
- The Demo versions may be freely distributed so long as the disk contains this
- documentation file in unaltered form and the programs remain unaltered.
- The full versions of these programs are NOT Public Domain and may not be
- distributed in any shape or form (please).
-
- Note.
- All programs are demo versions and are obtainable, as a compilation,
- for the measley sum of £5 (including postage and packing) from the following
- address
- Mr N.J. STACEY,
- Gorsehill Abbey Farm,
- Collin Lane,
- Broadway.
- WORCS. WR12 7PB
-
- Please send a cheque made payable to MR N J STACEY for the sum of £5
- and your software will be dispensed as soon as possible.
- Enclose Your Name And Address in BLOCK CAPITALS please.
-
- If you purchase the full version you will be entitled to updates which I
- will inform you of as and when they become available. The updates will
- hopefully be approx £2 depending on circumstances.
- Please write to me with any ideas for improvements, bugs or ideas for further
- programs - Utilities or games.
-
- Now Down to the actual programs themselves.
-
- 1. MegaColour
- This was designed for the purpose of recolouring a picture that had
- been scanned in using a black and white scanner but can also be used to
- colour any photo type image which is monochromatic (ie pixels are distributed
- about the screen to give the impression of shades).
- The program itself is very simple to use and is operated entirely by mouse
- via pull down menus and mouse clicks.
- The first pull down menu allows you to Load, Save or Clear a screen
- and also to quit. Always Select CLS before loading a new screen so as to
- clear out any rubbish left behind on the screen.
- The next pull down menu gives you the option of either Square or User
- fill and determines the shape of the part of the screen that you wish to
- shade. (Square fill gives you an arrow pointer and User fill a crosshair).
- To select an area on the screen to shade with square fill simply click and
- hold down the left mouse button at the top left of the image area that you
- wish to shade and drag the box over to the bottom right of the image then
- release the mouse button. You will then be taken to the palette requester
- documented later.
- To select an area on the screen to shade with user fill simply click the
- left mouse button on the picture where you wish to start and proceed to draw
- a line around the picture and back to the starting point.(NB do not hold down
- the mouse button, simply point and click. Also your outline may consist of
- only 100 lines). Next the screen will be cleared and the outline you drew
- will be flashing. Click anywhere in the centre of this to fill the area that
- you wish to save. You will then be taken to the Palette requester.
- The third pull down menu allows you to select the maximum shades that
- you require, the less there are the faster the shading. NB the picture will
- always be in 64 colours, you are just selecting the number of desired shades.
- The last pull down menu allows you access to the other programs.
- Note any work done is lost on transferr to another program.
- The palette requester is fairly simple to use and has 11 definable palettes
- to select from. To change a colour simply select the colour from the lefthand
- block and alter the RGB content.
- Note the righthand block are the halfbright colours and may not be altered.
- The bottom most bar of colours is the spread of colours from 0-49.
- To select the colour spread to be used to shade the picture simply click on
- a colour from the palette and then click on a position in the spread bar to
- place it. The bar is spread from light, on the left, to dark, on the right,
- and the colours used in less than a spread of 50 are either the first 10/26.
- The Inc and Dec buttons allow you to change palette from one of 10. The Lpal
- and Spal buttons allow you to load and save palettes from and to disk. The OK
- button continues to the shading pf the picture. Note - although there are
- several palettes the picture is in 64 colours so if you change palette the
- colours on the screen will change to that of the selected palette.
-
- The Process
- 1. CLS if picture been loaded previously.
-
- 2. LOAD IFF file.
-
- 3. Select SQUARE FILL or USER FILL from menu.
-
- 4. Select maximium no of colours from menu - 10/26/50
-
- 5. Select area of screen to shade.
-
- 6. Select colours and colour spread.
-
- 7. Click OK to shade picture.
-
- 8. During shading press ESC to stop shading and return to part 3.
-
- 9. program returns to part 3. Either save or shade other area.
-
-
- 2. Halver.
- This program is far simpler to use. Simply load up the picure by
- selecting the desired mode from the menu.
- The modes are -
- 320*256 4 Images
- 320*256 4 Optimized Images
- 640*512 Optimized Image (4 Priorities)
-
- When the image is halved it is halved in both directions therefore what was
- represented by 4 pixels originaly is now only represented by 1 - ie 3/4 of
- the image has been lost.
- The first mode produces 4 images on the screen, 1 from each of the 4 pixels
- so you may load this up into your art package and use the best one
- The second mode produces four images but the colour chosen for the pixel is
- the colour which was dominant in the 4 pixels. The four images created differ
- only slightly and only when there is no dominant colour, in which case the
- colour selected is the top left colour for the top left image etc.
- The third mode produces only one image in the same way as the second mode
- but you must first choose which priority you wish - by trial and error.
-
- When the picture is finished a file requester comes up allowing you to save
- the halved image. During the process ESC will cease the halving process.
-
-
- IN BOTH OF THE ABOVE PROGRAMS THE SAVE FEATURES ARE DISABLED.
-
- 3. Slideshow.
- Upon loading there will be a ? in the path box. Type in the name of
- the desired path and directory. To change directory simply click on the
- path box and enter in the new path and directory. In the directory box a *
- infront of a name indicates a directory. To create the show simply click on
- the name of the desired file in the directory box then click on the position
- in the slideshow box. To load or save a slideshow select option from menu.
- NB All slideshows are saved under the name "Slideshowdata".
-
- 4. Slideview.
- Upon loading this program will load up the slideshowdata file which
- must be located in the current directory. If the file isnt found the program
- will automatically boot up MegaColour. During the show click mousebutton to
- continue.
-
- The last two programs may be freely distributed as they are full versions,
- although fairly limited due to being early versions.
-
- Thanks To -
- Francois Lionet for AMOS, Dan Silva & Electronic arts for DPaint IV.
- Alice Cooper, Clanned, Hawkwind, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Osrics,
- Pink Floyd, RDF, Wasp and many more for musical inspiration.
- Jeff Minter for his excellent games, for Trip-a-Tron and most of
- all for his superb light synthesized & spaced-out video Merak.
-
- If you like the demo or find it usefull please please purchase the full
- version, after all £5 isnt much including P&P.
- Also keep a look out for other HunterSoft Demo Disks of games/utilities or
- drop us a line to find out more about them. Write to address given above.
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- HunterSoft.
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