DRAW & TEXT¢-----------¢¢Written by Les Taylor and Richard Prescott¢¢Version 1-3¢¢¢First of all we must say thank you to the author of R-DRAW, Randy McSorley, whose program this is based on. R-DRAW was written for the 130 XE computer only, Text & Draw will run on a 64k computer. Also this program was written with the ATARI 1029 printer in mind, as it has a printer dump built in for this printer.¢*¢When you boot Text and Draw, and the title screen has cleared, you will see the main Menu.¢¢ 1 > Control menu¢¢ 2 > Help menu¢¢ 3 > Draw mode¢¢ 4 > Load screen (picture)¢¢ 5 > Save screen (picture)¢¢ 6 > 1029 dump¢¢¢Let's go through the above one by one:¢*¢CONTROL MENU¢¢When here you can control some of the features of Text and Draw, as well as format a disk. The options of the Control menu are selected by pressing the highlighted letter of the function you want to perform. Here is a description of the options.¢¢I/O NOISE - Press "I" to turn the I/O noise on and off. I/O noise is the "chatter" that the computer makes when saving and loading the screen.¢¢KEY CLICK - Press "K" to turn the key click sound on and off. Some people find the speaker-generated click distracting.¢¢CIRCLE FINENESS - Pressing "C" rotates you through a series of numbers representing the number of lines drawn to make a circle in the DRAW MODE (by pressing "O"). The most exacting circle is drawn by selecting 360, or one line for every degree. The smallest number that can be chosen is 3. If you select 3 as the CIRCLE FINENESS, you will find that instead of creating a "circle", you've drawn a triangle. Similarly, if you choose 4 as the CIRCLE FINENESS, a diamond (square) will be drawn when you try to draw a circle in the DRAW MODE.¢¢JOYSTICK SPEED - Select a number between 1 and 19 as the JOYSTICK SPEED, which controls the speed at which the cursor flashes, and thus, the speed the cursor can be moved. The higher the number, the faster the JOYSTICK SPEED. Although the actual speed of the joystick changes only a small amount, the rate at which the cursor flashes changes quite a bit, allowing you to see the cursor better at the slower speeds.¢¢DIRECTORY - By pressing "D" you will obtain a disk directory. Press any key to return to the Control Menu screen.¢¢ERASE FILE - Press "E" to erase a file from the disk.¢¢FORMAT DISK - Pressing "F" runs you through a series of prompts to format a data disk. Use care with the FORMAT command so that you do not destroy any important data.¢¢RETURN TO MENU SCREEN - Self-explanatory.¢*¢HELP MENU¢¢This is a summary screen of all the commands, you need in the Drawing mode.¢*¢THE DRAW MODE¢¢When you press number 3, GO TO DRAW MODE, your screen will go blank and you are ready to draw. A tiny flashing cursor appears in the upper left corner of the screen. To move the cursor, use a joystick inserted in port 1. To draw while moving the cursor, simply press the trigger button while you move the stick. Here is a list of all the functions of DRAW and TEXT, along with explanations. The commands are in the same order as they appear on the MENU SCREEN.¢¢START - returns you to the menu screen. From there you can SAVE your picture, LOAD another picture, go to the CONTROL MENU, or GO TO DRAW MODE. Your picture is saved in memory, and will not be lost unless you LOAD another file to the screen.¢¢1 or 2 - By pressing the numbers "1" or "2" while in the DRAW MODE, you control the horizontal spacing. "1" gives you a continuous line, "2" makes the cursor skip every other space. Using "2", you can create artifacted colours on your TV, or shade in areas on your monitor. When you press "1" or "2", the COLOR you are using is set to COLOR 1.¢¢0 - Erase mode. When you press "0", the color that is issued when you draw is COLOR 0. This allows you to erase bits of your picture. By first pressing "1" or "2", then "0", you can erase every dot, or every other dot.¢¢UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT - The arrow keys. Pressing any of the arrow keys moves the cursor one space in the direction of the arrow. You need not press the CONTROL key as you press the arrow key.¢¢L, R, B - When you press "R", a line will be drawn from the point the cursor is to the right until it touches a line or dot. "L" draws left, "B" draws both ways. These commands can be used, in succession, as a simple "FILL". By pressing CONTROL-L, CONTROL-R, or CONTROL-B, the lines drawn will ignore any other line it may encounter, and will draw all the way to the edge of the screen.¢¢CLEAR (< Key)- Erase entire screen. (DO NOT PRESS WITH SHIFT). When you press CLEAR the border will turn red. This is to warn you that if you press the CLEAR again, your picture will be lost. Pressing any key other than CLEAR whilst the screen is red will return you to normal, and your picture will not be erased.¢¢P - SPRAY PAINT. By pressing "P", you enter SPRAY PAINT MODE. By moving your joystick and pressing the trigger, a random pattern will appear near the cursor, simulating "spray painting". Pressing any key will return you to the DRAW MODE.¢¢D - DRAW LINE. When you press "D", you will hear a short "beep", telling you that you are in the DRAW LINE MODE. Move your cursor anywhere on the screen, then press the trigger. A line will be drawn from the point you were when you pressed "D" to the point your cursor now rests.¢¢" (quotation mark) - By pressing SHIFT-2, the quotation mark, you enter the TEXT MODE. After pressing this key, simply press any key and you are entering text in graphics mode eight. The letters will begin a little to the right of where the cursor is when you press the quotation mark. You will have to experiment a little to get used to the TEXT MODE. The DELETE key "backs you up" one space, although there is no cursor to show you where your next character will appear. The ESCAPE key returns you to the DRAW MODE.¢¢CONTROL-E, CONTROL-X, and CONTROL-W work the same way as the quotation mark, but are double, triple, and quadrupile height characters. Using these extra TEXT MODES, you are given the opportunity to enhance your screen greatly.¢¢O - CIRCLE MODE. When you press "O" (the letter O, not zero) you hear a short beep. Then move the cursor to the right and press the trigger. The place the cursor was in when you pressed "O" will be the centre of the circle, the place the cursor is when you press the trigger will be the radius.¢¢S - SQUARE MODE. Pressing "S" allows you to make rectangles. First position the cursor where you want the upper left corner of the rectangle to be. Press "S". Move the cursor down and to the right to where you want the lower right corner of the rectangle to be, and press the trigger.¢¢M - MIRROR MODE. After you press "M", anything you draw on the screen is mirrored four times. To exit MIRROR MODE, press ESCAPE.¢¢C - COPY MODE. Pressing "C" allows you to copy a small (20x20 pixel) area of the screen. Position the cursor on the upper left corner of an area you wish to copy. When you press "C" you will hear a short beep, a pause, then a higher beep. Now move the cursor somewhere with the joystick and press the trigger. The copied area is duplicated. You can repeat this as often as you wish. To exit the COPY MODE, press ESCAPE. Your cursor will then appear where it was when you originally pressed "C".¢¢TAB - Pressing the TAB key rotates you through all the colours available in GRAPHICS 8. Pressing CONTROL-TAB brings the colours back to the default (white on black). Pressing SHIFT-TAB reverses the colours to black on white.¢¢? - STAR PATTERN. When you press "?", a "star pattern" of random dots will appear on the screen. To stop the dots, press ESCAPE.¢¢CONTROL-Q - REVERSE SCREEN. When you press CONTROL-Q the screen border will turn gray and the picture will slowly reverse itself. The entire screen takes about ten minutes to reverse, so be patient. To stop the process in mid-action, press any key.¢¢SELECT - SAVE PICTURE TO MEMORY. When you press SELECT, the border flashes green and your picture is saved to memory as a temporary holding area for your work.¢NOTE: If you leave the drawing mode any picture you have saved in this temporary storage space will be lost.¢¢OPTION - GET PICTURE FROM MEMORY. When you press OPTION, the border flashes yellow, and the picture you previously saved to memory using the SELECT key returns to the screen. The SELECT/OPTION functions can be useful when creating a screen. Before trying something that may destroy the work you have already done, press SELECT and save it to the memory. If you do destroy the picture, simply press OPTION to get it back.¢*¢LOAD SCREEN¢¢Press 4 and you will be asked for the file name of the picture you wish to load. The "D:" is NOT required, but if you have saved the file with an extender i.e. PIC, or other, you must use it.¢*¢SAVE SCREEN¢¢Press 5 and, as above, you will be asked for a file name to save the screen to disk. The "D:" is not required, and it does NOT save with an extender, i.e. PIC.¢*¢1029 PICTURE DUMP¢¢Press 6 and you will see a new menu screen, 1029 PRINTER SETTINGS. In this menu you can set the picture to the LEFT, CENTRE or RIGHT, of the page, press 1,2, or 3. To leave this menu ENTER 4. Press RETURN after you have entered the page settings and you will then be asked if you want to print the screen in NORMAL or INVERSE. The picture is normally printed WHITE PAPER BLACK INK (NORMAL), which is the reverse from the drawing mode (black paper, white ink).¢*¢ERROR HANDLING¢¢The only errors you are likely to ever get in DRAW and TEXT are disk or printer errors. If you specify a nonexistant file to be loaded, or if your drive is turned off, or if you try to write to a full disk, the message "DISK ERROR - CHECK DRIVE OR FILES" will appear on the screen. Also if your printer is not turned on you will see PRINTER ERROR - TRY AGAIN. DRAW and TEXT will then restart. The pictures you have contained in memory will not be affected.¢
