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- Painter 1.0
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- Distributed by CDS Productions
- Copyright 1991, by Carlos da Silva Painter is a shareware program.
-
- If you use this program often, the author kindly asks that you
- send a $20 appreciation and registration fee. This fee also
- entitles you to phone and written support.');
-
- There are other programs and games available from CDS Productions.
- Genghis Khan 3.0 - A historical simulation. - GK_V3.ZIP - $20*
- Squadron - A two player war game. - SQUAD_V1.ZIP - $15
- Big Bucks - A stock market simulation. - BBUX_V15.ZIP - $10
-
- And coming soon...
- ProDos - A full-featured DOS Shell. - PDOS_V1.ZIP
- ProGuides - Reference material on disk. - PROG_V1.ZIP
- Robin Hood - A medieval simulation. - RH_V1.ZIP
-
- * (Genghis Khan 3.0 features a paper-bound manual explaining the
- details of this complex game. Genghis Khan 3.0 without a
- manual costs only $15. Other games feature on-line documenta-
- tion.)
-
- Make checks payable to:
-
- Carlos da Silva
- 626 Bergen Street
- Harrison, NJ 07029
-
- My Phone #: (201) 481-0915
-
- Thank you,
- Carlos da Silva Copyright Notice
-
- You are free to copy this program and GIVE it to other people.
-
- You may collect up to five (5) dollars for this program due to
- media purchases.
-
- You may not change this program in any way, shape, or form.
- No viruses may be inserted into the program.
-
- DO NOT UPLOAD THIS PROGRAM BACK INTO A BBS IF THAT IS WHERE
- YOU RECEIVED THIS PROGRAM.
-
- If you wish to get future versions of Painter, you must send
- the $20 dollars mentioned before, in check form, to the address
- given before. You may also order by voice also, by calling the
- number mentioned before. These rules apply to other CDS Produc-
- tions labeled programs.
-
- If any CDS Productions labeled programs contain copyright
- messages other than the author''s name, this program is void of
- public distribution except by the right-given person, namely the
- author.
-
- If this program is distributed by the above rules, all files
- must be included in the packaged .ZIP, .ARC, etc. compacted
- archive. Files for any forthcoming CDS Productions program include
- CDSLOGO, *.EXE, and various files needed such as documentation,
- last-minute README files, and separately distributed add-ons, and
- enhancements.
-
- This program is shareware copyrighted, 1991 (c) Carlos da Silva
-
- Thank you for your support. Enjoy the program. Painter 1.0 by Carlos da Silva
-
- I wrote Painter to be able to incorporate 80x25 text screen
- graphics in my games and my programs. Programs either had to be
- full-color graphics, or they had to be text-based games. Forthcom-
- ing programs, especially games, will include text-based graphics.
- Of course, these graphics aren't as good as full-color VGA
- graphics, but they still allow a person to get a better feel for
- the game, without memory requirements going out of the city. I
- hope you enjoy this program, and incorporate it into your DOS batch
- files or your Turbo Pascal(tm) 5.0 or higher programs.
-
- Carlos da Silva,
- President of CDS Productions
-
- Also, check out some of the now available games from CDS
- Productions. In case you were wondering, the first CDS Produc-
- tion's game to have text-based graphics is Squadron. Check it out
- on local bulletin board systems, or get it directly from CDS
- Productions. Getting Started with Painter
-
- To start Painter, type in PAINTER at the command line prompt.
- First a snazzy CDS Productions logo will appear. It was crafted
- with Painter. Screens similar to the first two pages of this
- document will appear. Then the title screen will appear, followed
- by the main portion of Painter.
-
- Here is where you make masterpieces. Function keys are used
- to use the features incorporated into Painter. Some features are
- Undo, Draw Box, Compose Character, among others.
-
- Here is a description of each key and what they do in Painter.
-
- Key Description
- ------- ---------------------------------------------------------
- Up Moves the cursor up one character.
- Down Moves the cursor down one character.
- Left Moves the cursor left one character.
- Right Moves the cursor right one character.
- Home Moves the cursor to the left of the current line.
- End Moves the cursor to the right of the current line.
- PgUp Moves the cursor to the top of the current column.
- PgDn Moves the cursor to the bottom of the current column.
- Enter 1. Drops down one line in the editing mode of Painter.
- 2. Accepts option under highlight bar in menus.
- 3. Accepts default, or your text, in text-entry areas.
- ESC The Repeat command allows you to paste any character, any
- amount of times (up to the right edge of the current
- line).
-
- F1 1. Calls up general help screen.
- 2. Gets specific help, if in command mode.
- F2 Displays Color options menu. The options are Foreground
- Colors and Background Colors.
- F3 Displays File options menu. The options are Load
- Painting and Save Painting.
- F4 Compose Character. Easy to remember two-letter codes
- allow you to put in graphic characters.
- F5 Box Drawing mode allows you to make elegant borders and
- text containments effortlessly. You have a choice of 6
- different border types, and you make your box by specify-
- ing the top, left corners and the bottom, right corners.
- F6 Displays Fill options menu. The options are Fill
- Background, Fill Foreground, New Painting, and Fill Box.
- F7 Displays Change Font menu. Displays available fonts in
- current disk or directory. Fonts are available seperate-
- ly from CDS Productions.
- F8 Insert Graphics menu allows you to choose exotic charac-
- ters, not available in the Compose Characters mode. The
- two available menus are Special Characters and Icon
- Chararacters.
- F9 Undo retrieves the painting as it was before your last
- operation.F10 Quit Painter. Returns you to DOS.
-
- ALT F1 Changes the Foreground Colors. This is a shortcut for
- pressing F2.
- ALT F2 Changes the Background Colors. This is another shortcut
- for press F2.
- ALT F3 Save Painting. This saves your painting to disk for easy
- retrieval from DISPLAY, the batch enhancement program, or
- from DISPLAY's source file, DISPLAY.PAS, which can be
- incorporated into your Turbo Pascal programs. This is a
- shortcut for pressing F3.
- ALT F4 Load Painting. This loads your painting from disk. This
- is a shortcut for pressing F3.
- ALT F5 Fill Foreground changes the foreground color to any color
- you wish. This is a shortcut for pressing F6.
- ALT F6 Fill Background changes the background color to any color
- you wish. This is a shortcut for pressing F6.
- ALT F7 New Painting clears the painting to a light gray on blue
- to start work on a new painting. This is another
- shortcut for pressing F6.
- ALT F8 Fill Box allows you to draw a borderless box, which is
- really just a color change, if you choose transparent
- mode. This is also a shortcut for pressing F6.
- ALT F9 Insert Icons lets you choose from a menu of iconic
- characters (ie. a little heart, or a smiley face) and
- paste it into the painting. This is a shortcut for
- pressing F8.
- ALT F10 Insert Special Character lets you choose from a menu of
- special characters (ie. a halftone, or a block) and paste
- it into the painting. This is a shortcut for pressing
- F8.
-
- CTRL F1 Move Block allows you to move around a section of the
- painting. The background of the moved object is a blank
- box of the current colors.
- CTRL F2 Copy Block allows you to copy a section of painting and
- put it somewhere else in the painting.
- CTRL F3 The DOS Operations menu let's you branch into the two
- commands, Change Directory and Quit Painter.
- CTRL F4 Change Directory lets you go another directory in order
- to load a painting somewhere else in the diredtory tree.
-
- Others Any other key (besides function keys) are planted into
- the painting. If a font is chosen, any regular keys are
- placed into the painting. "Regular" refers to any keys
- over and including ASCII value 32 (space) and under and
- including ASCII value 126 (~). In other words, any
- character you can see on your keyboard.
- ------- --------------------------------------------------------- DISPLAY, the batch enhancer and Pascal source
-
- With the bundled program, DISPLAY, you can display paintings
- in a variety of methods.
-
- DISPLAY can spice up your batch files considerably, allowing
- you to display company logos, or displaying messages superbly.
-
- For Turbo Pascal users, (5.0 and higher) you can paste the
- Procedure ShowPic into your library or procedures and functions,
- and have programs with text-based graphics.
-
- The DISPLAY program is a mere 7000+ bytes, and won't be a hard
- disk hazard. Painter and DISPLAY can both be easily put on a
- floppy disk system.
-
- DISPLAY Command line format is:
-
- DISPLAY picturefile [mode] [/BW]
-
- Where:
- picturefile (required) is the name of the painting to display.
-
- mode is how to display it.
- 1 - Top to bottom wipe.
- 2 - Bottom to top wipe.
- 3 - Left to right wipe.
- 4 - Right to left wipe.
-
- /BW tells the program to display it in gray-scale (black and
- white). Hopeful Enhancements...
-
- Mouse support for easy movement of the cursor.
- More display modes for DISPLAY.
-
- If you feel you need any enhancements made to Painter, please
- write to the address found earlier in this document. Changes are
- welcome to DISPLAY (if you have Turbo Pascal), but I would really
- appreciate it, if you would tell me any changes you made to
- DISPLAY, by writing to the above address.
-
- You can always leave a message on )(evious for CARLOS DASILVA,
- instead of writing to the above address, anytime.
-
- Thank you for your support!
-
- The latest versions of CDS Production's programs and games are
- found first on )(evious!