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ScreenBuilder - Shareware version 1.20
(C)Copyright Gilmore Systems, 1987
P.O. Box 3831
Beverly Hills, CA 90212-0831
Phone: (213) 275-8006
If you find this program valuable, please send a donation of $25 for the
author's efforts and to support the shareware concept. Thank you.
This is a "shareware" version of the commercial ScreenBuilder program
package. All information is found in the "manual-on-a-disk" file
"SBSHARE.DOC". The shareware version of the ScreenBuilder program is
called SBSHARE.EXE and should be used whenever the manual refers to the
SB.EXE program.
Additional information not found in the "manual-on-a-disk" worth taking
note of:
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1) The following is a list of files found in this .ARC file:
README . - This file
SBSHARE .EXE - Shareware version of ScreenBuilder
HELPSCRN. - Main help screen used by SBSHARE.EXE
ATTRSCRN. - Attribute screen used by SBSHARE.EXE
CHARSCRN. - Character screen used by SBSHARE.EXE
HELPSCR2. - 2nd help screen used by SBSHARE.EXE
SBSHARE .DOC - Documentation for SBSHARE.EXE
BLOADC .BAT - Batch file to create BASIC bloadable color picture
BLOADM .BAT - Batch file to create BASIC bloadable b/w picture
BLOADC . - Data file used by BLOADC.BAT
BLOADM . - Data file used by BLOADM.BAT
MAKEANSI.EXE - Program that generates ANSI output from screens
created with ScreenBuilder.
SBDEMO .ARC - Archive of the animated demo of the commercial
ScreenBuilder program package
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2) The files created by using this program end with an extension of
".8D" (which stands for 80 column Display file). These are stored
as screen or binary images of the screen's display buffer and are
in the order of character-attr-character-attr etc for a length of
4000 bytes. The actual file stored is 4003 bytes. The last three
bytes represent the foreground, background, and border colors of
the picture when you saved the picture.
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3) For those of you using BASIC, decide whether you are using a color
or monochrome monitor. For color, the command:
BLOADC PICFILE.8D PIC.BLD
creates a "bloadable" picture file (pic.bld) out of the file
(picfile.8d) created with ScreenBuilder. For a monochrome picture,
use the BLOADM batch file instead of BLOADC. Then simply use the
following BASIC command:
BLOAD "PIC.BLD"
For those of you using (Turbo) C, the following code will load your
file from within an application program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <dos.h>
void loadscrn(scrnfile) /* name of file in passed string */
char *scrnfile;
{
unsigned offset, segment;
FILE *f;
if(!(f=fopen(scrnfile,"rb")))
{
printf("\nError- Can't open screen file %s\n",scrnfile);
exit(1);
}
screenseg=( ((char)peekb(0x40,0x49)) == 7) ? 0xb000 : 0xb800;
for(offset=0; offset<4000; offset++)
pokeb(screenseg, offset, (char) getc(f) );
fclose(f);
}
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4) You'll want to copy the file "SBSHARE.DOC" to your printer. It's
rather lengthy and may not fit into your text editor.
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5) The program MAKEANSI.EXE generates ANSI output of any screen that
was created with ScreenBuilder. It writes its output to the screen
but can be redirected to a file. For instructions on its use,
simply run the program without any parameters - instructions will
print on the screen.
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6) The file "SBDEMO.ARC" is an archive containing the animated demo
of the capabilities of the commercial version of ScreenBuilder.
The entire demo was created with the commercial version of
ScreenBuilder and is "played back" with the playback program.
Use an un-arcing program to get to this demo.
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End.