It runs in lots of VGA resolutions, but amazingly, it also runs in CGA on a plain 8088 PC with DOS 2.1!
The P11 project started in 1984, and has customers in 40 countries. It is the culmination of 10's of thousands of hours of programming effort, and comprises nearly 100,000 lines of ASSEMBLER LANGUAGE code. It's power is unmatched!
2-color, 4-, 16-color screen modes up to 640 by 480 dots resolution, and 256-color screen mode with 320 by 200 dot resolution!
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Animate over 8,000 images, at over 1,000 frames-per-second (WOW!!) Animate from DISK or from RAM, or from EXPANDED MEMORY, CD-ROM, even DISKETTES! (YECCH!)
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Use a built-in multiframe picture editor to create the images. Use the text editor to write interactive animated programs!
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Free Run-Time version for marketing and distributing your creations!
You can do very complex animation sequences using paths, windows, start- and stop-points, and many other possibilities! You can also do animation quickly and easily, using just ONE command!
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Utility programs are included for adding animation to other software, for HP Laserjet (tm) printing, for displaying ".PCX" images, and a "TSR" program for screen capture!
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Complete documentation is provided, including reference guides, technical data, online help, and LOTS of fine examples!
That's quite a few, isn't it? Don't worry, the manual explains them all!
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P11 was (and continues to be) written by Russell D. Hoffman and is Copyright 1984 to 1992. This new shareware version is complete--you do not need to register to get a better version (new releases notwithstanding.)
THIS is the biggest and best animation/multimedia program around!
The file, SMALLPST.PIC, was \READ, the desired number of cycles (\ROUNDS) and the SPEED were set, and then frames 1 through 24 were shown at location 290 on the X axis and 245 on the Y axis of the screen!