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KOZMIC_4 Read_me file.
10 August 1993
Notes:
1. Medium or High Resolution needed to read this file on screen.
2. This is an ascii file without page-breaks or perforation skips.
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WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
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Only the Unregistered Version of KOZMIC_4 is Public Domain.
Copyright remains at all times with David C Henniker.
Only the Unregistered Version of KOZMIC_4 may be freely distributed
by Public Domain libraries. No charge is to be made by Public
Domain Libraries except the normal fee (to cover blank disks,
copying, catalogues, postage and packing).
Magazines may NOT supply KOZMIC_4 on a coverdisk without
permission in writing from the author, David C Henniker.
Registered Copies of KOZMIC_4 are encoded with the user's name and
may be copied only for his / her own use.
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End of legal stuff!
To register:
Send £10 (ten pounds) in UK Sterling (British money) to:
Dave Henniker
199 Bruntsfield Place
Edinburgh EH10 4DQ
Scotland UK
If you don't live in the United Kingdom (Britain) then please send:
A Girobank cheque
(Available at Post Offices in European countries)
or
A Eurocheque
(You can buy a book in European banks)
or
An INTERNATIONAL money order / postal order
(Available at Post Offices - MUST be payable in UK currency)
or
If you really have to, foreign money eg Guilders, Dollars, Marks.
(A little extra to cover the charges made by the Bureau De
Change would be appreciated.)
DO NOT SEND cheques or money orders in foreign (non UK) currency.
The banks here make extortionate charges for cashing these and
it's just not worth it.
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FOR YOUR £10
You'll receive two disks. The first will contain a full
working version of KOZMIC_4, registered in your name. The
second disk will contain example pictures of what can be
achieved with a little experimentation.
The program will continue to be developed; you will probably
get extra features in versions dated after August 1993.
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If you write to enquire about updates, please let me know
the 'date-stamp' of KOZMIC_4.PRG as shown in the desktop window.
Also please enclose a stamped self-addressed
envelope or IRC's (International Reply Coupons).
KOZMIC_4 ©Dave Henniker 1993
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The following files should be in the KOZMIC_4 folder:
1. READ_ME.TXT (You are reading it now.)
2. KOZMIC_4.PRG (The main program)
3. KOZMIC_4.MBS (Memory Banks - screens, samples, sprites etc)
4. _K_12K_2.AVR (Compressed Stereo samples for 2 or 4 Meg STE's)
5. K4_TITLE.MBK (Compressed Title screen)
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What you need to run the program:
(a) Atari ST/STF/STFM/STE with 1 Megabyte of memory or more
and a double-sided disk drive.
(STE computers with more than 1 Megabyte will load and
use the Stereo samples as well as the mono ones.)
(b) A colour monitor (poor results with an ordinary TV)
It should work OK on any version of TOS up to 1.62 (shown
incorrectly as 1.98 by some utilities). It should also work on
Mega ST's and Mega STE's but I cannot test this. It might even
work on the TT but, for the moment, it's incompatible with the
Falcon.
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WHAT'S IT FOR?
The purpose of the program is to create psychedelic patterns
which can be saved to disk. No drawing skills are needed but
experimentation is required to increase the range of effects.
The Help options provide enough information to get started, and
further on-line help is available from most of the menus. Some
possible uses for the program:
Be artistic without having to be an artist.
Load pictures into a paint program and edit them.
Use the screens as intro screens in your own programs (just
add text).
Run psychedelic slideshows at raves, parties etc.
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The techno-rock group TRANCEPORT have graphics produced by KOZMIC
on the cover of their excellent CD TRANCEGLOBAL.
(REAL 093 - write to: Surreal To Real, PO Box 33, Evesham, WR11 6UX)
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KOZMIC graphics have been used in a video shown on MTV (Belgian
rock band).
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LIMITATIONS OF THE UNREGISTERED VERSION
There's only one. You may save only one screen per session. If you
want to save more than one then you have two choices: Exit KOZMIC
and restart it and try again (tedious business) or send me ten
pounds for the all-singing, all-dancing, complete, updated version
complete with example screens etc.
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Thanks to the following people:
Jane, my wife for putting up with the long hours programming.
Steve Delaney of Floppyshop for encouraging me in the beginning.
Evelyn Mills of Shareware Shopper for giving 5 stars to Kozmic 2.
All you folks who sent me fivers for Kozmic 2. (This paid for my
hard disk!)
Chris Lloyd and all at ST Format for putting a ½Meg version on
their coverdisk.
John Weller of STEN (the best diskzine around) for encouragement,
inspiration and testing for bugs.
Bill Smith of Toronto for pointing out a bug in Kozmic 2.
José Montalvo of Connecticut for pointing out a bug in a pre-release
version of Kozmic 2½.
Billy Allan and Colin Watt for the MISTY and MISSING LINK extensions
for STOS.
The Estonian Cultural Attache (aka Robbie The Pict) for making it
possible for me to meet my hero, Robert Crumb.
Tranceport for their unsolicited CD, Tranceglobal.
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Technical Info:
I started writing the program on my STFM (TOS 1.2) upgraded to
1 Meg RAM.
This version was done using my STE (TOS 1.62) with 4 Meg RAM and
Hard Disks.
It was written entirely in STOS Basic, compiled, fixed for Mega
ST(E)'s with STOSFX11 then packed with Pack Ice.
STOS does not allow Drive Letters beyond H - HD users beware.
The INF files are used for saving slide show information along
with screens. I used this method because STOS doesn't save
colour-cycling or duration information with NEO or PI1 files.
Also palette-cycling or other info can be saved in the INF file.
I prefer to save in NEO format because De Luxe Paint doesn't like
STOS's PI1 format. By the way, Dpaint hangs after saving to HD,
so save to floppy instead if you use it.
All disks are copied with verify on. Should any disk be faulty
please return it for a replacement. If you have 1 Megabyte of RAM
then there may not be room for desk accessories of any size. Boot
the disk (press reset) if necessary to clear any .ACCs or TSRs.
This isn't a GEM program so you can't access DA's anyway...
Quick ST is incompatible with Kozmic and will corrupt the main
menu screen so it must be disabled before running the program.
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Some info about yours truly.
I was born on 21 July 1944.
I work as a bench engineer repairing monitors, power supplies and
IBM-contemptible PC's.
I started computing on a home made Compukit UK101, and later on
the BBC Micro.
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