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- Fastgraph
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- Fastgraph is a versatile, high-performance programmer's graphics library for
- DOS-based PC systems. It is powerful enough to satisfy the most demanding
- graphics application, yet it is easy enough for even the novice graphics
- programmer. Fastgraph includes more than 170 hand-optimized routines, from
- pixel display to sophisticated animation tools. This collection of routines
- provides a programmer with proven, powerful tools to take command of the PC
- and PS/2 text and graphics video environment.
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- Fastgraph's major functional areas include:
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- * Video mode detection and initialization
- * Colors, virtual colors, and palettes
- * Graphics fundamentals, including points, solid and dashed lines,
- polygons, circles, ellipses, solid and dithered rectangles, region
- fill, and clipping
- * Redefinable world space coordinate system
- * A scalable stroked character font
- * Image display facilities, including mode-specific and mode-independent
- images, clipped and reversed images, image retrieval, pixel run maps,
- PCX file display and creation, and fast image transfer
- * Physical, virtual, and logical video page management
- * Resizeable video pages for smooth, flicker-free panning
- * Animation and special effects
- * Keyboard, mouse, and joystick support
- * Sound effects and music, both synchronous and asynchronous
- * Support for Borland C++, Turbo C and C++, Microsoft C and QuickC,
- Power C, Turbo Pascal, QuickBASIC, Microsoft FORTRAN, and MASM/TASM
- * Support for small, medium, and large memory models
- * Extensive tutorial-style user's guide and reference manual
- * No royalties
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- Fastgraph is an ideal development tool for entertainment and educational
- software, presentation graphics products, scientific and engineering
- applications, CAD/CAM, animation, and any application that requires robust
- graphics. Fastgraph supports 22 video modes, including VGA (standard and
- extended), EGA, MCGA, CGA, Hercules, Tandy, and monochrome and color text.
- With Fastgraph, it's possible to write programs that run in many different
- video modes by changing only a few lines of code, resulting in fast program
- development.
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- Originally developed for use in commercial video games, Fastgraph represents
- the cutting edge in graphics technology for the IBM PC. It has been used in
- commercial products such as Accolade's Test Drive III, Day of the Viper, Steel
- Thunder, and Gunboat; ComputerEasy's Video Poker a la Carte; Compu-Teach's
- Once Upon a Time series, Puppet Playhouse, and Destination Mars; and all our
- shareware products.
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- Fastgraph/Light
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- Fastgraph/Light is the shareware version of Fastgraph. It includes all the
- features of Fastgraph except the world space coordinate system and stroked
- character font. Unlike Fastgraph, Fastgraph/Light uses an external video
- driver (FGDRIVER) that you load before running a program developed with
- Fastgraph/Light, just as you load a mouse driver before you run a program that
- uses a mouse. Fastgraph does not use the external video driver but instead
- includes the necessary functions directly in your EXE or COM file.
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- Any programs developed using Fastgraph/Light are 100% source code compatible
- with Fastgraph. If you upgrade from Fastgraph/Light to Fastgraph, all you
- need to do is re-link your programs. As with Fastgraph, we don't charge
- royalties for using Fastgraph/Light. The Fastgraph/Light software license
- agreement allows you to distribute the external video driver without charge
- as part of your applications.
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- Terms of Fastgraph/Light Evaluation
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- This is an EVALUATION VERSION of Fastgraph/Light and is distributed as
- shareware. It is a full-functioned version with all features found in the
- registered version of Fastgraph/Light. However, programs created with the
- evaluation version will display an evaluation notice when run. In addition,
- programs created with the evaluation version may not be sold, given away, or
- distributed in any form.
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- You may evaluate Fastgraph/Light for 30 days, after which you must either
- register the product, purchase Fastgraph, or discontinue its use. Upon
- receipt of your Fastgraph/Light registration fee, we will send you disks
- containing the latest registered version of the product and a license
- agreement that entitles you to use the product without royalties in any
- programs. You'll also receive access to special conferences on our technical
- support bulletin board. For an additional fee you also can purchase typeset
- manuals. Please see "Ordering Information" at the end of this file for
- complete registration information.
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- Installing Fastgraph/Light
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- The Fastgraph/Light evaluation kit is distributed in two formats. One format,
- called the zipped format, is a group of three standard ZIP files. Your
- evaluation kit will most likely be in this format if you obtained it from a
- bulletin board (BBS), a shareware distributor, or other on-line service. The
- other format, called the unzipped format, consists of two 360KB 5.25-inch
- disks (or one 720KB 3.5-inch disk) containing the same files as the zipped
- format distribution. If you purchased your evaluation kit from Ted Gruber
- Software, it will be in this format.
-
- The procedure for installing Fastgraph/Light on a hard disk differs depending
- on the format of your Fastgraph/Light evaluation kit. The next two paragraphs
- explain the installation procedure for each format.
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- If you are installing the zipped format Fastgraph/Light evaluation kit, you
- should have three files named FGL110A.ZIP, FGL110B.ZIP, and FGL110C.ZIP.
- Create a new, empty subdirectory (preferably called \FGTEMP) and extract the
- contents of the three ZIP files into that directory. After doing this, run
- the INSTALL program to move the necessary files to their permanent locations.
- When you're through using INSTALL, you can delete the files from the temporary
- directory.
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- If you are installing the unzipped format Fastgraph/Light evaluation kit, you
- can install it directly from the distribution disks. Load the disk labeled
- "Installation and Utilities" in any available diskette drive, make that drive
- your current drive, and then type INSTALL at the DOS prompt. From this point,
- just follow the directions on the screen.
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- The INSTALL program will ask you for the compilers and memory models you wish
- to use. It also will ask for the name of the directories for the Fastgraph
- utilities, include files, and libraries. For the utilities, we suggest using
- the default name \FG. For the include files and libraries, we recommend
- specifying the directories where the compiler you've chosen normally searches
- for such files. INSTALL will automatically try to determine these directories
- and propose them as defaults.
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- On-line Manuals
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- The Fastgraph/Light evaluation kit includes complete versions of the tutorial-
- style "Fastgraph User's Guide" and the "Fastgraph Reference Manual". These
- two extensive manuals explain Fastgraph and Fastgraph/Light in detail and are
- the definitive references for using the products. While they specifically
- describe Fastgraph, everything in the manuals also applies to Fastgraph/Light
- unless stated otherwise.
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- The User's Guide is a detailed tutorial about Fastgraph. The companion
- Reference Manual gives descriptions of each Fastgraph routine in alphabetical
- order. We recommend reading Chapter 1 of the User's Guide and the first
- section of the Reference Manual before you try Fastgraph or Fastgraph/Light.
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- The User's Guide is split into two files, USER1.TXT and USER2.TXT. The file
- REF.TXT contains the Reference Manual. The INSTALL program places these files
- in the \FG directory. All three of these files are ASCII text files, suitable
- for any 80-column (or wider) printer.
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- Example Programs
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- The Fastgraph/Light evaluation kit contains files for all the example programs
- in the Fastgraph User's Guide. The INSTALL program places these files in the
- \FG\EXAMPLES directory. The example programs supplied with the zipped format
- evaluation kit are written in C (as are the examples in the User's Guide).
- You can obtain QuickBASIC, Turbo Pascal, or FORTRAN versions of the examples
- from our technical support BBS by calling (702) 796-7134. The unzipped format
- evaluation kit includes examples for all supported languages.
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- Distribution Files
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- The zipped format Fastgraph/Light evaluation kit contains the following files:
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- In FGL110A.ZIP:
- README.1ST This file
- ORDER.FRM Product order form
- INSTALL.EXE Fastgraph/Light installation program
- FGDRIVER.EXE Fastgraph/Light video driver
- CLIP.EXE Clipping utility for pixel run files
- CONVERT.EXE Conversion utility for pixel run files
- SNAPSHOT.EXE Screen capture utility to create pixel run files
- FGLS.LIB Fastgraph/Light small model library
- FGLM.LIB Fastgraph/Light small model library
- FGLL.LIB Fastgraph/Light small model library
- FGLS.MIX Fastgraph/Light small model library for Power C
- FGLM.MIX Fastgraph/Light small model library for Power C
- FGLL.MIX Fastgraph/Light small model library for Power C
- FGLQB.LIB Fastgraph/Light library for Microsoft QuickBASIC
- FGLQB.QLB Fastgraph/Light quick library for Microsoft QuickBASIC
- FGTP.TPU Fastgraph/Light unit for Turbo Pascal
- FASTGRAF.BI Fastgraph/Light function declarations for QuickBASIC
- FASTGRAF.H Fastgraph/Light function prototypes for C
- INTRFACE.FOR Fastgraph/Light function interfaces for FORTRAN
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- In FGL110B.ZIP:
- USER1.TXT Fastgraph User's Guide (through Chapter 8)
- USER2.TXT Fastgraph User's Guide (Chapter 9 and beyond)
- REF.TXT Fastgraph Reference Manual
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- In FGL110C.ZIP:
- *.C Example programs written in C
- *.ASM Example assembly language programs
- CORAL.* Data files for the example programs
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- If your Fastgraph/Light evaluation kit does not include all these files, you
- may download a complete kit from our BBS by calling (702) 796-7134. There is
- no charge (other than the phone call) for using the BBS.
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- The unzipped format evaluation kit contains the following files:
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- README.1ST This file
- ORDER.FRM Product order form
- INSTALL.EXE Fastgraph/Light installation program
- FGLIGHT.ARJ All other files in FGL110A.ZIP (compressed)
- MANUALS.ARJ Fastgraph User's Guide and Reference Manual (compressed)
- EXCOMMON.ARJ Files common to all example programs (compressed)
- EXC.ARJ Example programs written in C (compressed)
- EXMSF.ARJ Example programs written in FORTRAN (compressed)
- EXQB.ARJ Example programs written in QuickBASIC (compressed)
- EXTP.ARJ Example programs written in Turbo Pascal (compressed)
- UNARJ.EXE Robert Jung's file decompression utility
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- We'd like to personally thank Robert Jung for his liberal licensing agreement
- covering the use of his UNARJ utility. UNARJ and its companion product, ARJ,
- are excellent products that we highly recommend.
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- Notice to BBS Sysops
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- You may post the zipped format Fastgraph/Light evaluation kit on your BBS for
- public downloading if you do not modify any of the files in any way. Please
- use the three ZIP file names listed above and insure they contain all the
- necessary files.
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- Notice to Shareware Distributors
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- Ted Gruber Software hereby grants shareware distributors or vendors the right
- to distribute the Fastgraph/Light evaluation kit, subject to the following
- conditions:
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- a) You must obtain WRITTEN PERMISSION from Ted Gruber Software
- to distribute the Fastgraph/Light evaluation kit.
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- b) You must obtain a set of master distribution disks from Ted
- Gruber Software and only distribute identical copies of the
- master disks.
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- c) You must not include any other files or products on the
- Fastgraph/Light evaluation kit disks.
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- d) You must not modify the evaluation kit files in any way.
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- We'll automatically send new versions of Fastgraph/Light as we release them.
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- Ordering Information
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- Please use the order form below to register Fastgraph/Light, order Fastgraph,
- or order Fastgraph manuals. For your convenience, this form appears by itself
- in the ORDER.FRM file.
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- We accept Visa, MasterCard, and COD (extra charge for COD orders). Purchase
- orders are welcome from most companies, schools, and government agencies.
-
- Site licenses are available for Fastgraph/Light and Fastgraph. Please call or
- write for specific details.
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- Order from: Voice: (702) 735-1980
- Ted Gruber Software FAX: (702) 735-4603
- PO Box 13408 BBS: (702) 796-7134
- Las Vegas, NV 89112 CIS: 72000,1642
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- Company: _____________________________________________________________________
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- Address: _____________________________________________________________________
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- Please send the following products:
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- | | | Price | Shipping | |
- | Qty | Product Description | Each | Each | Total |
- +=====+=========================================+=======+============+=======+
- | | Fastgraph professional graphics library | | U.S. $0 | |
- | | (includes Fastgraph User's Guide and | $149 | Canada $5 | |
- | | Fastgraph Reference Manual) | | Other $15 | |
- +-----+-----------------------------------------+-------+------------+-------+
- | | Registered version of Fastgraph/Light | | U.S. $0 | |
- | | (includes on-line manuals but no | $49 | Canada $0 | |
- | | printed manuals) | | Other $3 | |
- +-----+-----------------------------------------+-------+------------+-------+
- | | Fastgraph User's Guide and | | U.S. $5 | |
- | | Fastgraph Reference Manual | $25 | Canada $5 | |
- | | (for Fastgraph and Fastgraph/Light) | | Other $15 | |
- +=====+=========================================+=======+============+=======+
- Subtotal | |
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- * Orders outside the U.S. and * Nevada residents add sales tax | |
- * Canada are sent by surface * +=======+
- * mail. If you would like us * COD orders (U.S. only) add $4 | |
- * to ship your order by air, * +=======+
- * please double the listed * Total | |
- * shipping charges. * +=======+
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