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- Rainbow Warrior ! - Amos Rainbow Kit
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- Written and Produced by Spadge The Unwilling
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- Exclusive for Newsflash Issue 15!
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- Version 1.1a.09373785748578 Wibbly Woo
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- This program is dedicated to Daisy - Francois Lionet`s dog.
- It was inspired by several Pink Floyd album covers and by
- the remarkable music of Bjorn Lynne - freak out to space
- Deleria.. far out.. way out.. I`m out..
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- NOTE TO EVERYONE!! Please ONLY distribute the VERY LATEST version of this
- program or I`ll go all miserable, I don`t want early poxy versions flying
- around! If unsure please call me - or write and I`ll send a new version,
- the latest version was edited and fixed on Nov 7th 1990. Version 1.1
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- Foreword.
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-
- Amos, as most of the people who own it will know, lays claim to providing
- the opportunity to use 4096 colour Copper-Bars and copper-routines in the
- form of the Rainbow command. So far so wonderful but quite a lot of users
- will have found out that actually forming the data for the rainbows can be
- long winded and confusing... not any more... Rainbow Warrior is here!
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- RW gives you the opportunity to "paint" with the copper/rainbows and save
- them out for direct inclusion in your own programs, indeed the program
- outputs ascii blocks so that they can be merged directly! Of course RW is
- itself written in AMOS so users can adapt, mix and merge their own stuff
- in there too..
-
- Apart from Amos though, the program outputs data for K-Seka, Devpac,
- Binary, Decimal, Hex and it's own formats.. so it can be used for whatever
- evil and sickly reason you may deem fit.
-
- It offers an easy way to create "copper bars" - those metallic looking
- bars seen in many a demo... there's magnify, cut&paste, extend and fill..
- what more could an Amos user ever dream of? :-)
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- What you need to run RW
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- Amos
- An Amiga (I guess you're ok there)
- Some fingers
- A monitor
- A disk or two
- A brain functioning on low-power
- A bottle of Newky Brown to celebrate the Rainbow revolution
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- First Things First
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- Turn your Amiga on
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- Running Rwarrior
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-
- Just load it up into AMOS and hit run... soon you'll be greeted with the
- obligatory credits bit and Newsflash promo.. just hit the mouse butt
- a couple of times and you're in. You'll see a menu at the top and a
- square in the centre of the screen, denoting current colour. Hang on, no
- you won`t because I`ve changed the program since and now the current
- colour sits on the menu thingy-wotsit. Anyway it looks better there.
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- The menu can be moved using the cursor-keys, so you can shift it out of
- the way when you're painting in different areas of the screen. The square
- is the currently selected colour which will be used when you paint, you
- paint with the left mouse button and remove with the right.
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- Rwarrior Commands and Features
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- Although the menu shows most of the commands, some are available by
- pressing shift instead and the key, giving a totally different result.
- Here's a full run down on what you can do, and how...
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- X - This one exits, Don't bother pressing it just now!
- ? - This one pops the credits and Newsflash info on again, in case you
- missed it the first time around. (Can't blame me for that)
- c - Pressing c alone will clear the current screen to all-black.
- C - Shift-C will clear the screen and fill it with the current colour
- shown by the box in the middle. It also sets the new background colour
- and delete will have the effect of painting in this colour.
- n - This key automatically moves the cursor down and selects the next
- darker shade. This way it is VERY easy to produce copper-fades to
- black. Just select your colour, either a random one, a popular one or
- make your own up and keep pressing N (or hold it down). You`ll soon
- have half a bar.. just use M to Mirror it and hey presto.. Bar Magic!
- N - This does the same as above but moves the cursor upwards.
- G - Grab the current colour and store it.
- R - Recall a colour grabbed with "G"
- D - Select the next shade in the range. (Also "-")
- B - Select the next brighter shade in the range. (Also "+")
- * - Random Colour Select. (use to grab a random colour)
- / - Go through popular colour list.
- M - Mirror a section of the screen. (Use with "n" to create "bars")
- k - Copies a section of the screen into the paste buffer.
- K - Shift-K will cut the section completely and put it in the paste buffer
- P - Pastes the current contents of the paste buffer onto the screen at the
- current cursor location.
- F - Fill a region of the screen in the current colour.
- U - Undo. Retreive a screen saved with "Z".
- Z - Copy the current screen into ram. Retrieve with "U". (Like Undo)
- H - Grab the colour under the cursor.
- E - Expand. Easy way to create large copper displays, eg Sea types with
- gaps of colour. Create a blue-black fade with "N" at the top of the
- screen and use extend to stretch it all down the screen. It's usual
- to use extend from the top of the screen, but not necessary.
- S - Save Options (See Later)
- l - Load a previously created RWarrior screen (*.RWS) Just load in some
- of those trendy demo screens and drop that jaw, well be a bit giddy!
- L - Load a previously created RWarrior Buffer (*.BUF)
- i - Load an IFF Image onto the screen. This let`s you load a 4-plane
- lo-res iff picture onto the screen, as the rainbow command is only
- able to change colours 0-15. You can, of course load 1,2 or 3 plane
- images and work on those if you so wish.
- This allows you to position text and graphics that might be affected
- by the rainbow command. Eg if you want to have a font "filled" by
- rainbows. For a demo of the command press "i" and load
- "templatedemo.tmp". Then press "l" and load the "tempdemo.rws" -
- this is a screen to designed for colour 1 usage, to see what I mean
- - now press the "A" key.. magic eh?
- I - Kill an IFF Template.
- A - Change affected rainbow-colour to 1-15 instead of background, use with
- iff images. To move through the available colours use "[" and "]".
- Press "A" again after you`ve finished viewing.
- 1 - Decrease Red Colour Value
- 2 - Decrease Green Colour Value
- 3 - Decrease Blue Colour Value
- 4 - Increase Red Colour Value
- 5 - Increase Green Colour Value
- 6 - Increase Blue Colour Value
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- SAVE OPTIONS
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- [1] Save AMOS data - Saves a complete mergeable routine!! Edit the SET
- RAINBOW and RAINBOW commands to your own purpose, ie Which colour is
- affected and where the rainbow is to be positioned.
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- [2] Save Seka Data - Saves data compatible with the Seka Assembler.
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- [3] Save Devpac Data - Saves data compatible with the Devpac Assembler.
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- [4] Save Binary Data - Saves a chunk of code with the values.
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- [5] Save Decimal Data - Saves lists of data seperated with commas for use
- in other applications.
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- [6] Save Decimal Data - Saves data in a 'list'.
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- [7] Save Hex Data - Saves lists of hex data seperated by commas.
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- [8] Save Hex Data - Saves data in a single list.
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- [9] Save current screen.
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- [0] Save current clip buffer.
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- Notes & Comments
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-
- As this is the 1st version, any hints, tips and other ideas would be
- welcome for inclusion in any possible upgrades.. send your comments etc to
- me (Spadge) at Po Box 13, Ossett, W.Yorks, WF5 OXA. Upgrades for V2
- include a colour spread feature with different colour points and fades..
- Your feedback will make or break V2.0!! Also call the Spadge Factory BBS
- 0924 265593 after 7pm daily... zany bbs`s rule ok.
-
- This routine, doc and the other bits are all Tupperware and as such are
- freely distributable... as long as... 1) This doc and the program come
- completely un-altered in anyway shape or form. 2) It does not appear on
- any single disk costing £3 or more.
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- If you do something that isn't legal with respect to the copper, you will
- be told so and the program will carry on.. don't panic! - Actually I have
- removed just about all cases where there could be an error so you shouldnt
- get many, if any!
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- Anyway, mess around and before too long you'll discover that it's quite
- easy to produce fabulous copper displays in a matter of minutes...
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- History:
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- Along time ago in a land, far, far away there lived a.. whoops...
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- Version 1.01 Finished and complete. (At least I thought it was) Oct 8/90
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- Version 1.01b [Bugs removed] October 9/90.
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- No physical differences except for cutting out of outlandish errors that
- were generated by trying to access the copper off the screen (!)
- Next shade bug removed after much head scratching and twitching.
- Expand optimized and error-free. Now works very well. (sort of)
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- Version 1.1 One major bug removed (whahhayy!) Colour Back added and also
- the groovy Template option and Affect button. All works fine - Wunderba!
-
- Well I thought it all worked fine until I spotted a wee nasty in the save
- clip routine but I bashed it`s brains in before it had chance to squeal
- loudly. (November 7th 1990 - by the way I thought I`d better get a move
- on `cos Mandarin had advertised this program!! An old version at that!!
- Ne`er mind...
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- Seeya.
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- Spadge. Nov 7/90. - do read NEWSFLASH - you don`t know what you`re
- missing! You`ld have had this a LOT earlier too!!!
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