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- This is documentation for cube and box programs by Plinker Andy L.
- These (c) 1988 programs may be freely copied in any manor as long
- as this file is inclosed with them. You know, they are public domain.
-
- This author Andy Lochbaum asks if you enjoy this, you should buy a copy
- of any program you have pirated. Support Amiga software publishers and
- you help our machine.
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- INTRODUCTION
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- Box makes boxes from three IFF files, and data included in a box.data file.
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- Cube lets you visualize the box.data you are making and save it to the file.
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- CUBE
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- To start cube, from the CLI, make sure you are in the directory you want
- make.data written to. Then type (dev:dir/)cube >make.data.
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- You will see a cube formed on the screen, now use keyboard commands to
- change aspects of the cube.
- Xps - the horzontal start of the upper left corner of the front face
- and the whole cube follows is
- RIGHT or + by lower case r LEFT or - by lower case l
- Yps - the vertical position of cube
- [ UP + u ][ DOWN - d] get it + or up is u down or - is d
- Wid - the width of the front face, cube follows
- [ WIDER + w][ NARROW - n]
- Hgt - the height of the front face, cube follows
- [ TALLER + t][ SMALLER - s]
- Dpt - the depth of the top and side
- [ IN + i][ OUT - o]
- File - when you hit f all the aspects of the screen are written to
- box.data, please note if you don't like the settings then
- quit and start over, hitting f again won't help.
- Quiting - There are two ways out, the clean and nice way is to move
- your mouse pointer to the upper left and click on left
- mouse button. The emergency way is hit the control key and
- c at the same time and the program will ask you if you want
- to quit.
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- BOX.DATA
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- This file is of a form which also works with my old cube program.
- The first three lines are not used by box.
- All data for the next lines is in hex numbers.
- Line 4 is Xps space Yps
- Line 5 is Wid space Hgt
- Line 6 is Dpt
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- BOX
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- To use this program you first need to have box.data in current directory.
- I have arc'd some data if you don't want to use cube.
- From CLI type (dev:dir/)box front.pic top.pic side.pic
- where front.pic is a 320x200 picture for front and colors, and
- where top.pic is a 320x200 picture for the top, and
- where side.pic is the 320x200 picture for the side.
- The program makes the cube and waits for 9.64 seconds.
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- COMMENTS or BUGS
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- Email me at Andy L on Plink with any comments, or bugs.
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