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Maker.bas
This program makes the font and image banks for the image and
font commands . All the images are preshifted which means they take up
a large amount of memory , beware ! If you are running it on a 1/2 meg
machine then be sure to delete all unnecessay accessories and programs
first.
Upon loading you will be presented with the main screen.
Make sprites into image bank
This will ask you to choose a sprite mbk to load and will then
convert it into an image bank.
grab images from .pi1
This will ask you to choose a .pi1 file to load , from which
you can select your images.
Make an alphanumeric fontbank
This will ask you to choose a .pi1 file to load , from which
you can select the letters and numbers for your font bank.
Make a letters only fontbank
This will ask you to choose a .pi1 file to load , from which
you can select the letters for your font bank.
The Width and Height of the images can be altered by clicking
on the arrows opposite them .
The number of image copies refers to how accurately you can
place your object on the screen with respect to their x coordinates .
An image copy number of 16 means you can place your images every pixel
, an image copy number of 8 means you can place your images every 2
pixels ,4 is 4 pixels and so on . The greater the accuracy the more
memory will be required as more shifted versions of the images will
need to be stored
If you have choosen anything other than 'Make sprites into
image bank 'sprite bank' then you will be presented with the loaded
pi1 and a small box which represents the place from which the image
will be grabbed.Note that once you have grabbed one image then all the
other ones must be the same size.
Move around the screen and click on the images with the left
mouse button.Note that you can only grab images which are on word
boundaries . Normally you can only move vertically in steps of the
images height selected from the main screen , this is called Y-Lock
and can be changed from either the main screen or by a keyboard
shortcut.
Once you have finished selecting your images they will be
preshifted and you will have the oppurtunity to save the new bank,
dont' worry if the palette looks a little strange as the colours are
changed so that the text is always readable . When the bank is saved
the palette will be saved correctly.
Keyboard Shortcuts
1 Scroll screen 1 pixel left
2 Scroll screen 1 pixel right
F Load new degas .pi1 file
X Increase width of image to grab by 16
Y Increase height of image to grab by 16
L Turn Y lock on / off
N> Grab image and move to left
Q Abort and return to main screen
Backspace go back 1 image
Space finish operation if in 'Grab images from .pi1'
There are some example .pi1's in the fonts directory for you to
practise with , enjoy!