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- GridPic, a program for viewing and changing GridWars pictures.
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- Grid Wars is a fun arcade game, but it is so good that you don't have
- time to appreciate the beauty of the artwork while you are playing it.
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- GridPic is a utility program for dealing with the unique data file format
- that Grid Wars uses to store its screen images.
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- With Grid Pic you can:
- view GridWars pictures,
- convert them to MacPaint format, and
- personalize your copy of GridWars with your own artwork.
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- Although GridPic is Copyright (c) 1986 by David Phillip Oster,
- it may be freely redistributed provided that this documentation file must
- always be distributed with it. (I hate downloading software only to find
- it has no documentation!)
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- If you are writing your own arcade games, you might wish to adopt Grid
- War's file format. Grid Wars uses a very compact representation of
- a whole Mac screen: it has no header, just 342 512-bit scan lines.
- Each scan line has been run through the Mac system call PackBits to make
- it shorter. If you do adopt this format, you'll find GridPic useful for
- converting MacPaint images into this format.
-
- (Warning: GridWars is copy protected. I have not actually tried
- modifying the artwork on my GridWars disk.)
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- If you don't own GridWars, you should run right out and buy it.
- For once, I have no affiliation with the creators of Grid Wars other than
- as a satisfied owner.
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- Matthew Grayson used this to modify GridWars so that you are playing
- against the famous Macintosh Geisha-with-comb.
-