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SCNTODS - A CONVERSION UTILITY BY M.L.C
This programme has one purpose. It converts a special type of
graphic screen to a format useable by Electric Paintbrush.
The source format MUST be TRUE GRSAVED HIRES2; ie, only
screens saved FROM BASIC and having the pcg configuration of a
HIRES2 screen. Screens converted from digiscan or Bee artistic
are NOT compatible without conversion (of course, my programme
"CONV.MWB" does these conversions).
The output of the programme is a file named "EPTEMP.$$$" in
drive "M", ie the ram disk. To use this file, simply run EP. You
will be prompted: "Attempt a recovery (ESC=no, any other key=yes"
and you should press any key except esc. Then you can enter EP
and select "Save As.." and save your picture so it can be used
from EP another day.
When you run the programme use the format:
A>SCNTODS GRUNGLE.SCN
where GRUNGLE.SCN is the screen you with to convert to EP
format. The converted picture is centered sideways and slightly
to the top of the EP "page". There is heaps of free space as
basic screens are 512*256 whilst EP screens are 576*720 (bet you
didn't know that!!". The scratch file created in "M" is about 50k
in size and consists of the raw, unpacked PCG data for the
picture, left to right, top to bottom. The picture is 72 bytes by
720 bytes (total 51840 bytes, about 50k).
Anyway, enough technical rambling! If you are interested in
any of my other programmes (I write things whenever I need them,
most of them are fiddly little things like this but the work)
leave me a message! Feel free to distribute this software (but
for free, not for money!!!!). Catch you later...
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