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- THIS PROGRAM IS SHAREWARE
- (SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS)
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- *********** SPECCODE PROGRAM ***********
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- Copyright 1992 Blackwing Publishing (UK)
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- SPECCODE is a machine code program
- which enables the users of the STOS
- Games Creator to show SPECTRUM (SPU)
- picture files from within the STOS
- environment. (512 colours for normal
- ST's and 4096 colours for STE's)
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- (SPU uncompressed picture files are
- generated from such packages as
- SPECTRUM 512 (ANTIC PUBLISHING) and
- ROMBO's VIDICHROME-ST digitizer etc.)
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- IT WILL ONLY RUN FROM WITHIN STOS
- AND REQUIRES A COLOUR MONITOR/TV!
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- First boot up your STOS system as
- normal then load and list
- "EXAMPLE.BAS" for instructions.
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- ******** SHAREWARE MESSAGE *********
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- SPECCODE.PRG is shareware and may be
- freely copied provided that the files
- README.DOC and EXAMPLE.BAS reside with
- it on the same disk (within the same
- folder).
-
- If you find SPECCODE useful you may
- wish to register as a user by sending
- £15.00 (inc VAT - add £2.00 if outside
- the UK) to
-
- Blackwing Publishing (UK)
- 1, Pepper Street
- London SE1 OEP
-
- Registered users will receive a copy
- of SPECPLUS.PRG which allows keyboard,
- text and window operations to be
- performed whilst a spectrum picture is
- being displayed.
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- Have fun!
-
- Thanks to STOS,ROMBO and ANTIC
-
- (Existing registered users of SPECCODE
- will receive SPECPLUS free of charge
- now that speccode has passed into the
- Shareware Domain).
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- Limitations
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- While the ST is showing this number
- of colours on screen it is operating
- close to the limit of its available
- processing power. This means that
- any other tasks called at the same
- time will run slow or just not work.
- (This applies only when an SPU picture
- is on screen - STOS returns to normal
- as soon as the picture disappears)
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- Sometimes glitches can occur due to
- the ST's processor and graphics chips
- being out of sync. They appear as a
- series of small "holes" in the picture
- and a cold reboot should remedy this.
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