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P R E S E N T
AdItor 1.0b
By Shagratt of LSD
1 . 0 b U P D A T E
This version now works on ALL kickstarts, however I have not changed this
version whatsoever. After assembling 1.0a, I crunched it. This corrupted
the hunk structure and it only worked on KS1.3. I have been unable to repeat
the error, so i`m not blaming the cruncher used. If you want to test this
further try using Monam2 on version 1.0a, it bombed it out because of the
corrupted hunks.
I N T R O D U C T I O N
At last its here, the Grapevine advert editor! Now you can design and colour
your own adverts for Grapevine. AdItor is fully multitasking but does not
auto-detatch, so I recommend you "Run" it from the CLI.
IMPORTANT: Your libs: directory MUST contain reqtools.library and
powerpacker.library.
M E N U D E S C R I P T I O N S
LOAD ARTICLE: This loads a previously saved Grapevine format advert into the
editor.
LOAD ASCII: This loads a standard ASCII file into the editor, note it MUST be
no more than 22 lines long (any more lines than 22 are shown).
SAVE ARTICLE: This saves your edited GVadvert to disk, reqtools.library has
named your .txt file as a .xxx file, so there's no need to name it.
SHOW CR'S: This toggles a <RETURN> sign at the end of the lines, useful if you
get a too-long line.
PALETTE: Each GV advert can have a different palette of 8 colours. Use this
to remap them. The last colour is flashing between the background colour
(first colour) and this one.
SAVE PALETTE: Save the current palette to disk
LOAD PALETTE: Load the saved palette to your article.
CLEAR: Clears the advert, ready to do another one.
CENTRE: Centres a line
QUIT: Guess!
K E Y B O A R D C O M M A N D S
LEFT AMIGA and M or N: Toggles between the CLI and the editor, so you can
multi-task.
F1 - F7 Select colour
F8 - Nothing!
F9 Double height
F10 Double width, these can be used together to bring a bigger font, remember
to put one space between each letter when using double width.
SHIFT and F1 Selects a font, you are presented with a menu of 12 8x8 fonts
either press the corresponding letter to select or use the mouse. The new font
starts at your cursor position. The "Standard" font is font A, the italic is
font "B". Some fonts are only suitable for titles etc.
SHIFT and F2 Turns on the codes for AMIGA alt symbols, NOTE the £ sign is an
amiga alt symbol!
SHIFT and F3 Turns on the codes for PC alt symbols
SHIFT and F4 Selects an alt symbol to be placed at the cursor pos, when using
this the control code defaults to AMIGA alt symbols, so there's no need to
press Shift and F2, if you want to use them.
SHIFT and F5-F8 do nothing!
SHIFT and F9 selects the 4chars by 4 chars size font, to use this you need
THREE spaces between each letter.
SHIFT and F10 Selects the 8 chars by 7 chars font, you need SEVEN spaces
between letters! These last two are for titling!
ALT and DEL deletes a line.
DEL and BACKSPACE function as normal.
M U L T I T A S K I N G
AdItor is fully multitasking. Hard Drive users will find this feature very
useful as they can copy disks using "Super Duper" while editing, this saves
time and Pazza loves it! You can of course do anything that multi-tasks while it
runs like play modules, ray trace a piccy, download from your modem etc. Isn't
multi-tasking wonderful!
B U G S
There are no known bugs, Pazza has given this a good testing for a week! I have
tried it on KS2 and it is 100%, I haven't tried it on an A1200, but you should
have no problems, if you do try downgrading to standard chipset, cashe off, but
I am not hitting any hardware! Let Pazza know of any bugs.
E X A M P L E S
There are a few examples on this disk, look in the "Examples" directory. Play
with them, change them, see how effects work. There are many effects
available, just play around with it!
Y O U R F I N I S H E D A D V E R T
MAIL: Send your advert on disk to;
Pazza
2, South Parade
Gainsborough
Lincs
DN21 1UQ
England
Or mail it to any Grapevine editor.
MODEM: Call Pazza voice on +44 (0)427 677463, he will connect the modem for
you. Do not try to upload any adverts to any LSD BBS's, it is unlikely they
will get to GV in time. Pazza will have a BBS up soon, you will be able to
upload adverts there!
U P D A T E S
As you may have noticed, the menu has gaps between gadgets. That is because
the advert editor is a cut-down version of the GV article editor (for GV
editors only, not distributed freely!), perhaps I will sort this out someday!
Future versions will become available as more options etc. are added to GV!
All speling mistaces (c) Pazza 1993!
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