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- W A L T ' S G E O P A I N T S K E T C H B O O K
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- by Walt Harned
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- We have been asked why we don't have any GEOS programs on LOADSTAR
- 128. The answer is that we have never been sent any. But we have been
- sent clip art and fonts so I figured it was time we had a GEOS file on our
- disk. What made my decision easier is Walt Harned's excellent GeoPaint
- document.
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- WALT, THE MAN
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- I don't know if there are many LS 128 subscribers who have never seen
- LOADSTAR 64 but if so, you need to be introduced to the #1 computer artist
- in the 8-bit world, Walt Harned. He's been supplying LS 64 with title
- screens, slideshows, multimedia events, and good vibes for years now. He
- spent his pre-LOADSTAR life gallivanting around the universe, amassing all
- sorts of useless and decadent skills, then retired from the teaching field
- to devote his life to art. He lives in a castle in Louisville KY where he
- has the most sophisticated art laboratory known to 8-bit man. Sure, he
- could be a rich man creating VGA art for the evil IBM empire, but Walt is
- not interested in mere lucre; Walt has too much class for that. Walt
- Harned is the personification of the LOADSTAR Spirit.
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- THE SKETCHBOOK
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- There are several beautiful outdoor scenes in the document, just
- waiting for you to clip and print. Some are in color if you are viewing
- them in 40 columns. There's even a picture of a WWII fighter plane whose
- name escapes me at the moment. When my brother was in the Ground Observer
- Corps back in the early 50s, we knew the names of all of the US and Russian
- planes, as well as their shapes, but I guess since New Mexico was never
- attacked by MIGs, that valuable information somehow slipped out of my
- mind.
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- GEOVIEWER
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- I've included GEOVIEWER by Siamak Ansari on this disk so you can see
- Walt's art without GEOS. It's a C-64 program so you must be in the C-64
- mode to run it. It allows you to view and even print the picture if you
- have an Epson-emulating or 1525-emulating printer.
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- When you boot GEOVIEWER you can load "sketchbook" by pressing F1, or
- change the setup by pressing F3. The setup screen allows you to:
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- F1 - use a fast load routine (don't use it if you have one already),
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- F2 - change the device number for loading,
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- F3 - change the device number for saving what's on the screen,
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- F4 - change the printer device number (4 is default)
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- After you get the setup right for your system, press F1 and part of
- the document will be loaded and displayed. From the display screen you can
- use the CRSR keys to move the view. RIGHT and LEFT scroll pretty fast but
- UP and DOWN cause a disk load. You may also press:
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- T - move to the top
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- B - move to the bottom
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- L - move to the left (no load)
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- R - move to the right (no load)
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- C - move to the center
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- P - print the screen
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- S - save the screen as a DOODLE file
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- RETURN - lets you load another file, or by pressing F1, go back to the
- Main Menu.
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- GEOVIEWER is not a LOADSTAR program but it's one of the handiest
- programs ever written. Our thanks to Siamak Ansari for letting us publish
- it. It cannot be modified by us.
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- FT
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