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- *** RAINBOW 1.2, a Falcon 030┐ specific true colour art package ***
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- (This demo version has its save function disabled.)
-
- This document for RAINBOW 1.2 DEMO is copyright
- ╜ 1993, 1994 ADDICTION SOFTWARE HB
- and the contents may not be changed, but you are allowed to copy and
- distribute it with no restrictions.
-
- The computer software RAINBOW 1.2 DEMO is copyright
- ╜ 1993, 1994 ADDICTION SOFTWARE HB,
- but may be copied and distributed by anyone (only this demo version,
- not the commercial release of RAINBOW 1.2), as long as none of the
- files in this archive is removed or altered.
-
- ADDICTION SOFTWARE HB is not to be held responsible for any damage
- to hardware or software or loss of data that may occur by using
- RAINBOW.
-
- We strongly recommend you to read this entire text file as well as
- "FACTS.TXT" and "HOTKEYS.TXT" and any other text file found in this
- directory, before running RAINBOW.
-
-
- *** Brief information about RAINBOW 1.2 ***
-
- ___________________________________________________________________________
-
- RAINBOW version 1.2 was programmed in 100% assembler by
- Rasmus Söderberg and Mandus Söderberg.
-
- The example pictures (*.TIF , compressed 24bit tiff) were drawn entirely
- using RAINBOW by
- Rasmus Söderberg.
-
- The manual for RAINBOW version 1.0 was written by
- Mandus Söderberg.
-
- The layout of the manual was done by
- Berndt Jönsson.
-
- ___________________________________________________________________________
-
- RAINBOW is an art package especially written for the powerful true colour
- mode on the Atari Falcon 030┐. The program is aimed at all graphic artists
- who need a quick and effective art package to produce true colour (65536
- colours) pictures for games, demos, utilities or private use.
-
- The program runs from either floppy or harddisk, and you don't have to
- change colour mode or resolution from the desktop, since RAINBOW
- automatically changes that (needless to say it also returns to the old
- desktop settings when you quit).
-
- RAINBOW only works with Falcon 030┐.
- ___________________________________________________________________________
-
- Since this is a demo version, you won't get a manual. Therefore you will
- have to guess how RAINBOW works (of course you'll get a manual when you buy
- the commercial version, where you also can save your pictures...), but at
- least we're able to reveal the following "hints":
-
- You click on different functions with the left mouse button in order to
- activate them.
- But if you want to adjust the function's settings, you'll have to press
- the right button. Then a menu box appears where you can make some choices
- for that function. A "+" on any of the choice line means that there is a
- sub menu box that can be reached by pressing the right button on it.
-
- Choice of colour is made using the "colour bars", the "hotkey palette" or
- preferably the "quick choice palette", which can be altered by changing the
- colour in any of its "corner boxes".
- Note that RAINBOW uses 16 bit true colour (many other programs that work in
- true colour use in fact only 15 bits, resulting in half as many shades of
- green wich gives you only 32768 colours instead of 65536).
-
- Press the right button on "rgb" or "vga" in order to change the frequency
- and overscan (default is no overscan).
- WARNING! (in the "vga" menu) Do not set the vertical frequency to 76Hz or
- 54Hz without knowing for sure that your monitor can handle it (consult your
- monitor manual).
- If you happen to set a mode that your monitor can't handle, you may restore
- the default monitor settings by pressing the key 'help'.
-
- RAINBOW 1.2 can manage to load *.TIF, *.TGA, *.TPI, *.NEO, *.PI? and *.PC?.
- Default is *.*, but if you want to load a specific format (i.e. if you want
- to load a TGA file called "PICTURE.GFX") you may press the right button
- (instead of the left) on "load" to enter the load menu.
-
- If you want to enter the built-in photo studio just click on the yellow
- "go to another studio" box and change to "photo studio".
- ___________________________________________________________________________
-
- We hope that this demo version can give you a chance to test RAINBOW before
- you decide if you're going to buy it.
- ___________________________________________________________________________
- 1994-09-28
-
- ADDICTION SOFTWARE
-