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- ORCHID ART 3 & 4
- by Jane M. Voskap-Jones
-
-
- THE ORCHIDS
-
- Hopefully you enjoyed Orchid Art 1
- & 2 on LOADSTAR issue #224. I gave
- you the history of this project on
- issue #224, so I won't distract you
- with that all again. Here are some
- more orchids for your growing
- collection, go and have a look.
-
- Since Dave and Sheri have told us
- in the Disovery column that issue #256
- will be the stopping point, I will try
- and get you as many of these beautiful
- pieces as I can, along with completing
- a couple of other series. Prepare for
- a rain of Jane, mainly in the plain
- (smiling now).
-
- The orchids came from a source
- called "The Plant Kingdom Compendium,"
- edited by Jim Harter, published by
- Bonanza Books in 1998 (ISBN
- 0-517-65833-x). It is a definitive
- volume of more than 2400 copyright-
- free engravings, if you want to go and
- look it up.
-
-
- ABOUT THESE FILES
-
- The HandyScanner64 and the Pagefox
- cartridge, (Scanntronik Devices) were
- connected to my C-64, to scan these
- orchids into Handy format. Then using
- GEOS128 v2.0 on my C128d, and the
- program HandyImport v1.1 (a Joseph P.
- Buckley program) the scans were
- converted to GEOpaint. Some slight
- editing was required, after which
- Scrapcan v1.3+ (a Nate Fiedler
- program) was used to compile the
- pictures together on a single GEOpaint
- page as you see the presented here.
- The text was compiled using the Write
- Stuff v2 for c128 (an Eric Lee
- program), using the BB Speller feature
- in a 1750 reu for spell correction.
-
- As usual, I had lots of fun
- compiling this orchid art for you. My
- whole Commodore and GEOS system keeps
- working at its best for me. Just the
- way I like it.
-
- Yours Truly,
- Jane
-
-
- JMV Grafix
- PO Box 635
- Enfield Plaza 5085
- South Australia
-
-
- [DAVE'S NOTE:] It you are a
- GEOS/WHEELS fan and like clip art,
- Jane has a ton (or is that tonne?) of
- it for very reasonable prices. I can't
- find her flyer right now. Just drop
- her a line. She will be glad to hear
- from you.
-
- I have always felt that these GEOS
- images are just too good to keep in
- the point-and-click world, so we have
- made SHP bitmap graphics for the rest
- of us. This time, Jane sent PCX
- versions (for the PC). These easily
- become GIFs, which GoDot brings back
- into the C-64 world.
-
- So, if you are a GEOS type person, use
- Wraptor to open up these files.
- Otherwise, enjoy our little slide show
- of Orchids.
-
- DMM
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