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- S L I D E S H O W 1 2 8
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- Program by Richard Derocher
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- Text by Fender Tucker
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- If you've ever collected a bunch of hi-res or multi-color graphics and
- put them on 1541 disks, probably the first thing you said to yourself was,
- "Gee, these disks sure don't hold many files." At 40 blocks a file for OCP
- or KOALA pictures, you can only get 16 pictures on one side of a 1541 disk.
- Even on a 1571 disk you can only get 32 pictures.
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- So most archivers use larger media, like the 1581 disks, or hard
- drives. But there's another way, and it's what LOADSTAR has been doing for
- pretty much all its life -- packing pictures.
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- There aren't any good packers for the 128 mode (that I know of) but
- thanks to Richard Derocher we now have a way of showing packed pictures in
- the 128 mode in an easy-to-use slide show. It supports only one kind of
- file, the LOADSTAR ".shp" format, which can be much smaller than 40 blocks,
- yet still produce the exact same picture as a full-sized OCP or KOALA
- file.
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- How do you pack pictures into the ".shp" format? By using a 64-mode
- program called "STB PRINT". It's on this issue. Once you have a bunch of
- ".shp" files, SLIDE SHOW 128 allows you to view them easily.
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- NOTE: Should you ever want to convert the ".shp" files back into their
- original format (for editing, perhaps), STB PRINT will do that, too.
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- THE SLIDE SHOW PROGRAM
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- The program runs in the 40-column mode only. At the Main Menu you can
- change drives, see the directory of the current drive, send a disk command,
- and make a slide show. You can also quit to LOADSTAR 128 if there's a LS
- 128 disk in the current drive.
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- Put a disk with a bunch of ".shp" files in the current drive and select
- Make a Slide Show. There are two ".shp" files by master artist Walt Harned
- on Side One and two more on Side Two of this issue. These are brand new and
- have never been published before.
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- The directory of the disk is read and if you are using JiffyDOS and a
- CMD drive only the ".shp" files are shown in a file requestor. On non-CMD
- drives all of the files on a disk are shown. Use the CRSR UP/DOWN keys to
- scroll through the files if there are more than will fill the window.
- Select as many as you want with RETURN and they'll be marked. You can
- select them all by pressing A, or you can have the disk read again by
- pressing D. Do this if you change disks.
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- When done selecting the pics to see, press F1. Then you have two
- options. If you want to have the slide show continue when you press a key,
- select that option. If you want each picture shown for a certain number of
- seconds, select that option. Use CRSR UP/DOWN to change the number of
- seconds.
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- You can also choose whether the slide show will run continuously, or
- only once. If it's run continuously, the only way out of the show is to
- press ESC while the show is running. If you choose only once, the show will
- go back to the Main Menu when all of the selected pics have shown once
- each.
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- LAST WORDS
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- Check out the beautiful pics by Walt on this issue, then notice how
- small the files are. Use STB PRINT to pack all of your collected OCP,
- KOALA, Doodle, and RunPaint pics into ".shp" files and you will be able to
- see a whole bunch of them (up to 298) at a time with SLIDE SHOW 128.
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