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- Note: This document is not necessary for distribution. All or part
- of it can be removed. The info/install program in TOON10.ZIP
- (README.EXE) contains enough of it. It is included here as an aid
- for advertising purposes. It is similar to the description used
- in uploads to BBS, and may be over technical for young and
- sensitive viewers. It uses PKZIP version 1.
-
- And now for something Completely Different... Really.
-
- CARTOON 1.0 (c) 1993 Mike Henderson Shareware Release 1
- Cartoon is a Movie Player and Editor of a Compact new Animation Format.
-
- * A Movie pops up and Plays automatically when run. (User selectable.)
- * Forward, reverse, fast or slower controls.
- * 9 frames a second at normal speed. Or as Fast as your PC allows.
- * 19 Sample Movies included -- running 24+ minutes total.
- * Select, load and run a movie with one Mouse click.
- * Self adjusts to any Speed PC. (286-8Mh or better)
-
- * Makes Movies from your own drawings or the drawings of others.
- * Complete toolset of Fun drawing and painting functions.
- * 10 levels of Undo.
- * Scene by scene, frame by frame movie sequence editor.
- * 5 pages of 20 Pix (pictures) each can be sequenced by Mouse.
- * Create and then add whole scenes to your movie, over and over.
- * Each Movie up to 12 minutes long.
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- * Easy to Use Intuitive menu system with context sensitive HELP.
- * Quickly learn how it works as you Create.
- * Complete Manual in Help.
-
- * 84%+ Graphics Compression on the fly (transparent).
- * 100 Pix + movie in as little as 75K on Disk.
- * Alphabetically sorted DIR.
- * Graphic DIR - Views of all Picture files in Current Directory.
- * Up to 100 Pix (pictures) per Set in RAM.
- * Up to 20 Pix Sets per Directory.
- * Up to 26 Movie files per Pix Set. (One in RAM at a time)
- * Up to 26 Directories.
- * 20 Pix x 26 movies = 520 x 26 Dir = 13,520
- * All with one character names for One Touch Input!
- * All Files managed as a relational database.
- * Pix files and Movie files are automatically linked together.
- * No clutter, very Clean file management.
- * Only Movie files relating to the Pix in RAM are shown.
- * Erasing a Disk Pix Set erases all its movies too.
- * Extensive error checking to save us from ourselves.
-
- * Export and Import Movies to A:\.
- * Freely Distribute TOON10.ZIP with your own creations.
- * Annual Animation Contest. Be rich and famous!
- * Menu/Help System Source Code Available.
-
- After drawing a picture and making a series of altered copies of it,
- you can sequence them into an animated movie up to 12 minutes long.
- If you don't care to draw, you can use the 679 pictures that are included.
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- This is not just for Artists. It is fun just as a Movie Viewer, forward
- and backward -- fast or Slower. The drawing functions are fun in themselves.
- CARTOON is Easy enough for a 5th grader, but deep enough for anyone.
-
- TOON10.ZIP contains:
- README.EXE -- An Information and/or install to C:\ program.
- DATA.DAT -- Archive containing: (Installation deletes this file)
- \CAR.BAT
- \TOON\\CARTOON.HLP, CARTOON.CFG, CART.EXE - The program.
- \TOON\A\ -19 Assorted Movie Demos.
- \TOON\B...Z 25 other directories you may create.
-
- Run README from A, B or C drive. (in same directory as DATA.DAT)
- It shows a menu with three options:
-
- 1. Info - Three pages of things like this.
- 2. install to C:\
- 3. exit to Dos.
-
- If you choose 2. Install, all files will be put in their places.
- After exiting to Dos. Enter CAR to run CARTOON.
-
- First the program will examine your PC and determine a delay speed
- to give the standard 9 frames a second. This only happens the first
- time you run. Then a demo movie pops up and plays. CARTOON will
- always pop up and play the movie that was in memory at the last exit,
- unless you don't want it to.
-
- There are four big branches on the Main Menu tree:
- Show - to show any movie in the current directory with one Click.
- Draw - here there are many valuable leaves.
- Movie - the sequence editor, with more useful leaves.
- Help - the online Manual.
- also on the Menu - Options ( change/create directories, timing).
-
- From any menu, F1 gets context sensitive help.
- F2 shows the Menu Tree.
- F3 gives a Graphic DIR of Pix Sets.
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- The pictures are not full screen 256 color like a .FLI, but small like
- a panel in a comic strip. They are much easier to draw and color,
- and allow longer movies with plot and dialog -- a beginning, middle
- and snappy ending -- an animated Cartoon.
-
- Basically CARTOON is a Toy, but it is built like a battleship!
- And if we must have our toys, it's better to create than destroy.
-
- It is our duty to have fun.