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- The Evacuator™ v1.0
- by Kiron D. Bondale
- Release Date: December 24, 1987
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- Registration Info
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- This program is not a Public Domain/Free Program... A lot of time and effort has gone into its
- creation and its creator believes this is worth something.
- Registration requires a one time fee of $5 to be paid to
- Kiron D. Bondale
- 4195 Beaconsfield Avenue
- Montreal, Quebec
- H4A 2H4
- Canada.
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- Benefits of Registration
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- 1) All future updates of this program will be sent to you FREE.
- 2) You will receive a source code listing of the program.
- 3) If you are able to get someone else to register, with proof of registration, you will receive
- registration benefits to yet another of my programs.
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- The Evacuator Background
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- Back in the time of MacPaint and other painting programs, people looked for clip-art everywhere...
- however it had to be in MacPaint format and many program producers went out of their ways to make
- it difficult for the graphic minded user to use their art as clip art. Examples of this are
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- Ann Arbor Softworks™ GridWars™.
- Broderbund™'s Ancient Art of War™, etc.
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- Also problems with compatibility with StartupScreen's, packed files etc. arose.
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- The way they do it
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- The reason you are unable to load these pictures with MacPaint is :
- Since a MacPaint picture is 576*720 pixels, storing this on disk would take 51K per file!
- To save the space, Bill Atkinson decided to pack a bunck of pixels into 1 so as to decrease space.
- He used 72 pixels to represent one. In otherwords, to load the file, MacPaint will unpack the
- file and then display it. Fine and dandy.
- However other companies decided to pack theirs other ways... hence numbers such as 64,40
- etc. began to appear.
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- How The Evacuator works
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- To solve the problem I created The Evacuator. It basically will read in ANY file and will
- ask you for 3 things... 1) A Header
- 2) A Code and
- 3) The number of lines...
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- These are as follows...
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- 1) The header is the space before the actual picture starts in which people store things like :
- Version numbers
- Patterns
- Strings... etc.
- For a MacPaint picture this is 512... for a lot of others it is 0.
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- 2) The code is the number the programmer used to pack his file.
- For MacPaint it is 72.
- For a lot of other progams it is 64.
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- 3) The number of lines is the length of the picture...
- A MacPaint picture is 720 lines, however most others are 342(the length of a screen).
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- The Program itself
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- There is one menu : Evacuate...
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- You can
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- 1) Read a file.... this will read in any file. You have to give it values for Header, Code, and
- number of scanlines. If what you are loading is a MacPaint file, you can just press
- Return or click in the OK box since it will recognize a MacPaint file.
- If you are loading a lot of files of the same type, then you need only input the
- values once, since the previous files values are saved as defaults. Once again
- just press Return or click in the OK box. If however you are using new values,
- you will have to enter them.
- After you have finished with a file, there is no Close option so the program will
- merely write over the screen when you select the option again.
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- 2) Write as MacPaint file... this will take the present screen image and save it as a MacPaint picture.
- You may wonder why I did not allow the user to specify how it is to be saved.
- The reason is that the user can then modify pictures on copyright programs and then
- write the changes to the programs themselves. This is copyright infringement.
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- 3) Print present image... this will give the familiar Page Setup and Print Style dialogs, and will
- then print the current picture to a printer.
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- 4) Quit... Will leave Evacuate.
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- The origin of the name/icon etc.
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- The icon that represents the program, represents an eye... seeing all... very symbolic of this program!
- The name itself... well that is a secret... register and you will learn!
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- Enjoy the program and register soon...
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- Thank you,
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- Kiron D. Bondale
- December 25, 1987
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