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- TheDraw Version 3.30
- Color and Monochrome Screen Image Generator/Editor
- Operation Manual
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- COPYRIGHT (C) 1986,1987,1988,1989 by
- TheSoft Programming Services and Ian E. Davis
- All Rights are Reserved
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- TheSoft Programming Services
- 1929 Whitecliff Court
- Walnut Creek, CA. 94596
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- Written using Turbo Pascal v5.0
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- The software programs TheDraw (TM) and TheDrawR (TM) are Copyright (C)
- 1986,1987,1988,1989 by TheSoft Programming Services. All rights are reserved.
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- TheDraw and TheDrawR are registered trademarks of TheSoft Programming Services.
- Other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
- respective holders.
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- TheDraw is a powerful screen image generator/editor for color and monochrome
- video users. We use TheDraw to compose advertisement screens here at
- MICRONEWS. TheDraw makes designing and figuring out a video screen display
- childs play.
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- TheDraw's basic premise is...be easy to use. The most novice computer user can
- make an ANSI text file screen with TheDraw in only minutes. Then, he can
- explore and use more of the power available in TheDraw.
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- The biggest problem facing most people is we really do not know what will look
- good until we see it. Manually editing a screen can literally take hours.
- TheDraw allows you to free form until you really know what is perfect. With
- the picture in mind, you can quickly develop whatever is necessary or instruct
- TheDraw to create a data file which can be used. Instead of hours, making a
- screen takes minutes.
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- TheDraw can transform your masterpiece into data files with the following
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- 1. ANSI color text (useful in batch files, BBS's, etc...)
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- 2. ASCII text (compatible with word processors and text editors)
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- 3. BINARY files (generic, useful in most everything)
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- 4. BSAVE (for Basic)
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- 5. COM files (actual separate programs executable directly by Dos. Great for
- batch files.)
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- 6. ASSEMBLER (for the die-hard coder)
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- 7. TURBO PASCAL (directly compilable source code)
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- 8. C (format is for Turbo C specifically)
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- 9. OBJECT (Intel format compatible - suitable for linking)
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- 10. THEDRAW (custom storage format for FAST loading and saving)
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- TheDraw was originally written as an improvement to a program named AnsiDraw by
- Amrich Enterprises. Both programs provided similar operation, with TheDraw
- giving a much enhanced user interface.
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- TheDraw has been vastly improved over the abilities of AnsiDraw, and most other
- screen editors. It is compatible with systems that have 150k of free memory
- available. Monochrome and Color monitor users are supported, and a special
- keyboard driver allows you to redefine keystrokes that do not operate properly
- or are used by other programs (registered version).
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- Another feature TheDraw fully supports is ANIMATION. With this facility you
- can develop quick and dirty presentations, or simply make a generic screen
- appear with pizzazz. You can either let TheDraw make an animation sequence
- from a static image, or one can be made from scratch; thus letting you fully
- control the appearance of your work. TheDraw gives you a maximum of 16000
- separate animation "entries" to handle the most complex job. The final result
- can be saved either as an ANSI file (Ansi Animation) or TheDraw format file.
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