ASCII(American Standard Code for Information Interchage) DRAW  V. 1.0
CopyRight 1995
        By, Neal Goldstein

For MAXIMUM Efficiency run out of WINDOWS...
For Fastest Load, Bypass your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT Files...

In This UNREGISTERED Copy Your Are Limited To ONLY 75 Characters...
To Register SEE ORDER.FRM

To Make BBS Screens Look For A Later Version That Will Support ANSI Save
To Make BBS Screens As Of Now, You Will Need A Program To Convert It To ANSI

To Load The Program Type "ASCIIDRW"
Type The File Name In 
If The File Doesn't Exist It Will Create It
Else It Will Load The Drawing And Allow Further Work To Be Done To It

To Move The Current Ascii Character Use The Arrow Keys

To Change The CHR$ Character, Use The "+" Key For Up
                              And The "-" Key For Down

To Change The Color, Use The "." Key For Up
                     And The "," Key For Down
To Change The Backround Color, Use The ">" Key For Up
                               And The "<" Key For Down

To Draw The Current CHR$ Character Hit Space

To End The Drawing Hit "~" 

To Abort The Drawing Hit ESC

To Use The Drawing In Your Program Use These Routines:
 
CLOSE #1                                         'Close Any Open File
OPEN "Name_Of_File_Saved" FOR BINARY AS #1       'Open The File
LOADDRW:                                         'Begin Loop
GET #1, ,CHR                                     'Get The CHR$ Character
IF CHR = 999 THEN GOTO NEXTSTEP:                 'End Of File
GET #1, ,X                                       'Get The X Position
GET #1, ,Y                                       'Get The Y Position
GET #1, ,C1                                      'Get The Color
GET #1, ,C2                                      'Get The Backround Color
COLOR C1, C2                                     'Set The Color
LOCATE X, Y: PRINT CHR$(CHR)                     'Print The Character
GOTO LOADDRW                                     'Get The Next Character

NEXTSTEP:                                        'Your Program Starts Here



NOT AVAILABLE IN UNREGISTERED VERSION:

If You Wish To Save The Drawing In Regular Text(No Color) Then
Push "`" To End The Drawing.
It Will Be Saved In Regular Text Readable By Other Programs...
****You CANNOT Reload The Text Saved File Into ASCII DRAW



