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- Introduction:
-
- Painter's Apprentice is a bitmap editor in the genre of MacPaint, PC
- Paintbrush, Dr. Halo, etc. Painter's Apprentice requires an EGA or VGA
- and a mouse driver compatible with Microsoft's.
-
-
- Copying:
-
- Painter's Apprentice is a freely copyable program. It is not a demo,
- nor is it crippleware. However, it is only part of a larger package.
- The larger package contains fonts, images, file format documentation
- and driver sources and is not freely copyable.
-
-
- Warranty:
-
- NO WARRANTY
-
- BECAUSE PAINTER'S APPRENTICE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, WE PROVIDE
- ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE STATE
- LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING, RUSSELL NELSON AND
- PATRICK NAUGHTON PROVIDE PAINTER'S APPRENTICE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY
- OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
- TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
- PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE
- OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PAINTER'S APPRENTICE PROGRAM PROVE
- DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR
- CORRECTION.
-
- IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW WILL RUSSELL NELSON
- AND/OR PATRICK NAUGHTON BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY
- LOST PROFITS, LOST MONIES, OR OTHER SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR
- CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE
- (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
- INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE
- PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH PROGRAMS NOT DISTRIBUTED BY RUSSELL NELSON
- AND/OR PATRICK NAUGHTON) THE PROGRAM, EVEN IF YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF
- THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.
-
-
- Manifest:
-
- ABOUT.SCR About Painter's Apprentice screen
- DISNEY.MAC A MacPaint (ReadMac) image of Disney Characters
- EPSONFX.PRI Epson FX - some other printers are compatible with this.
- EPSONMX.PRI Epson MX - many other printers are compatible with this.
- FNT.LDI .FNT loader
- GEMINI.PRI Gemini 10X driver
- HELP.SCR Help Screen
- HP82905B.PRI Hewlett-Packard 82905B driver
- IBMPRO.PRI IBM ProPrinter and Graphics Printer driver
- IBMQUIET.PRI IBM Quietwriter driver
- IPA.LDI .IPA loader
- INSTALL.BAT Install PA into the correct subdirectories
- LA50.PRI Digital Equipment LA50 driver
- LASERJET.PRI HP LaserJet driver
- MAC.LDI .MAC loader
- MPI99.PRI MPI 99 driver
- MV.COM Move files from one place or name to another.
- MVP.PRI MVP driver
- NOR10.FNT Norwood font (10 pt)
- NOR12.FNT Norwood font (12 pt)
- NOR14.FNT Norwood font (14 pt)
- NOR18.FNT Norwood font (18 pt)
- NOR9.FNT Norwood font ( 9 pt)
- OKI192.PRI Okidata 192
- OKI83.PRI Okidata 83
- OKI83S.PRI Okidata 83 sideways
- OLYMPIA.PRI Olympia
- PA.COM Painter's Apprentice
- PA.DOC Documentation for PA.
- PA.DSC Description file.
- POOH.IPA Winnie the Pooh
- POST.PRI Postscript
- POTS10.FNT Potsdam font (10 pt)
- POTS12.FNT Potsdam font (12 pt)
- POTS14.FNT Potsdam font (14 pt)
- POTS15.FNT Potsdam font (15 pt)
- POTS18.FNT Potsdam font (18 pt)
- POTS9.FNT Potsdam font ( 9 pt)
- PROWRITE.PRI C.Itoh Prowriter
- QUICKIES.SCR Quickies (accellerators) Screen
- README. This file.
- SCR.LDI .SCR file loader.
- SERIF10.FNT Serif font (10 pt)
- SERIF12.FNT Serif font (12 pt)
- SERIF18.FNT Serif font (18 pt)
- STARSR.PRI Star SR driver
- SYSTEM9.FNT Sans-serif font (9 point)
- THINKJET.PRI HP Thinkjet printer driver
-
-
- Installation:
-
- If you received this program as a .ZOO file, you can simply unzoo it, and the
- proper subdirectories will be created.
-
- If you received this program as a .ARC file, you have to run
- INSTALL.BAT from the subdirectory containing all the files with one
- parameter--the pathname in which to install PA.
-
- PA needs to find its files, and it looks for the base subdirectory containing
- the BIN, SCRAPS and FONTS subdirectories in several ways:
- o An environment variable set to the base subdirectory.
- o A subdirectory called \PAINT, equivalent to saying "set PAINT=\PAINT".
- o In the current subdirectory, equivalent to saying "set PAINT=.".
-
- The Authors:
-
- Russell Nelson has hacked on a number of programs, including
- History.com, Find.exe, BT (Boot Through), Ef (Edit Fat), and a number
- that you might not have heard of. Russell Nelson is also the author
- of Freemacs, a freely copyable programmable editor for the IBM-PC and
- Zenith Z-100.
-
- Patrick Naughton is also the author of xmac and hacked on xlock, two
- programs for the X Window System. Patrick is now working for Sun
- Microsystems, and is no longer supporting Painter's Apprentice.
-
-
- Philosophy:
-
-
- Painter's Apprentice is NOT BEGGARWARE
-
-
- Most so-called shareware packages are really beggarware. "If you use this
- software, please pay me for it." When you send in your money, all you get
- is thanks. Well, Painter's Apprentice is NOT BEGGARWARE. We have two
- schemes for getting paid for Painter's Apprentice without begging, the
- REST of the package, and the NEXT version, both outlined below.
-
-
- The REST of the package
-
- When you got your copy of Painter's Apprentice, you only got part of
- the whole package. We wanted to keep the archive file small so that
- more people would download it. The REST of Painter's Apprentice has
- a LOT more fonts, more internal documentation, and driver sources.
- If you send us $35, we will send you the REST of the package.
-
-
- The NEXT version.
-
- A lot of people who use shareware packages and don't pay are getting a
- free ride from those who do. Well, we have a new scheme to stop that.
- It's called contract programming. The best way to pay for programming
- is to find a lot of people who want a program written, and get THEM to
- pay for it in advance. The program should be freely copyable, so that
- people who weren't around when the program was written can still
- benefit. The problem is finding the people who want the program enough
- to pay for it.
-
- We have written Painter's Apprentice and given it out to the world.
- We have done this in the hopes of finding those people who want a
- paint-type program for the PC. Having found those people, we want
- them to pay for it by buying the REST of the package. The way that
- we have chosen to do this is to delay writing the next version of
- Painter's Apprentice until we have been paid for the previous
- version. If we don't get paid enough, we will assume that an
- insufficient number of people are using Painter's Apprentice and we
- will devote our efforts to software that people WILL use.
-
-
- Planned Enhancements:
-
- If there is sufficient interest in PA to continue supporting it, I plan on the
- following enhancements:
- o Screen capture to .IPA file.
- o VGA resolution (640x350) support.
- o RGB monitor (640x200) support.
- o Arbitrary Shape Select (MacPaint's Lasso).
- o Improved font handling.
-
-
- What you get if you pay:
-
- convert.com An image file format converter.
- printipa.com An offline .IPA file printer (no mouse required).
- driver sources Source for all the printer drivers.
- loader sources Source for all the image file loaders.
- file formats Documentation on the .FNT, .IPA, .MAC, and .SCR file formats.
- A large number of fonts.
- A large number of images.
-
-
- Ordering Information:
-
- Send a purchase order, check or money order for $35 (New York State
- residents add appropriate sales tax) to:
-
- Russell Nelson
- 11 Grant St.
- Potsdam, NY 13676.
-
- You will receive in return mail three diskettes containing the above software.
-