More than 10 years have passed since
the legendary James Hutchby from O.C.P. you-
launched "ART-STUDIO".
For 1985 it was a real masterpiece,
which has become an integral part of SPECCY
and one of the most popular programs for
his whole history.
A lot has changed over these 10 years. Most
more high-quality system programs would
whether written in the CIS countries. But, no matter how
strange, no one dared to get serious
developments in the field of graphic editing
torov.
We - the AVALON group - decided to replenish
this gap and take a new step in this
direction.
The main task we have before ourselves
we put - this is taking into account the shortcomings of all su-
current editors and satisfied
stealing the largest number of requests
users.
The idea of writing such a program is possible.
I had this problem before, but it was decisive
there was a request from PANDs from the ETC group. The matter is
that all alterations of "ART-STUDIO", even
its 128k version is far from perfect.
I worked at "ART-STUDIO" for quite a long time,
in order for you to notice that there is a lot of
couples and the inconveniences that it contains.
It’s worth remembering at least the constant switch-on
White border in "MAGNI-" mode
FY".
We weren't going to go far from
"ART-STUDIO", but suddenly the mass
sa ideas and suggestions from various people
and now we can say that it will be
a much larger project.
At this stage we are collecting
informationand try to find out everyone's opinion
strongest artists on SPECCY (SHAMAN,
ELF, TERROR, KAMIKAZE, PANDA, KV-SOFT,
and others). In addition, I myself am a professional
nal artist, and, in this case, this
important.
We will try to take the best from
"ART-STUDIO" and "ARTIST II", from the editors
for AMMY and PC, but the greatest attention we
We pay attention to USER's requests, therefore, if
do you have interesting ideas on this matter,
be sure to let us know. I promise that
everyone who makes useful suggestions will
are mentioned in CREDITS.
Below I give a description of what the plan-
can be implemented in the editor:
1.
Much attention is paid to inter-
face. You can change almost all parameters
parameters - arrow speed, acceleration factor
niya, you can draw your own cursors.
There will be well-designed "hot"
Vichy:
CURSOR - movement across the screen in MAGNIFY,
EDIT - screen view,
SS + number keys - change INK,
ENTER + number keys - change PAPER,
Z, X - change sprites (animation), etc.
All changes can be recorded on
disk in SetUp.
2.
Work with the resident will be implemented,
with which it will be possible to hang
Add music, timer, etc. to the editor.
3.
Most of the time I work with graphics
technical editor, the artist conducts
MAGNIFY mode. Therefore, we try to
make it the most convenient. Implemented
press simultaneous display of real
windows, but, whenYou can turn it off if you wish.
View the entire screen without leaving the screen
press increase, you can press one
keys.
WINDOWS and SHAPES functions are implemented and
in MAGNIFY mode. It's much more convenient
so how you can easily hit the peak
village
The LINE and DOTTEN modes will allow you to
draw solid lines or through one point
ku.
4.
Windows in WINDOWS mode, it will be possible to
give both pixel-accurate and
with reference to familiar places. In addition to all fun
window processing options from "ART-STUDIO", used
thickening, stroke, scrolling are implemented
ling, it is possible to morph two windows.
If our mathematicians do not fail, then
3D rotation functions are implemented,
window gates around their axis, etc.
5.
Implemented full-fledged disk inter-
face that also allows quick viewing
screens on the disk.
6.
Functions INK, PAPER, BRIGHT, FLASH volume
together. In addition, there is an
the ability to quickly change current attributes
Comrade, using hot keys.
7.
A set of graphic primitives in the menu
SHAPES, includes, among other things,
what, drawing ellipses and arcs.
8.
When printing texts on the screen, their sizes
can be set pixel by pixel.
9.
Animation will be implemented
directly in editing mode (even in
MAGNIFY). Now there will be no need
use sprite editor.
10.
A very original idea was suggested by SOI
from the group CRYSTAL DREAM. He advisedmake the REALTIME MAGNIFY option, namely -
mode similar to the effect from demo "RPSG128"
and "7 REALITY" - image editing
under a magnifying glass. All is displayed on the screen
picture that you can move around
magnifying glass with a sight in the center
re.The biggest advantage is
ability to see practically all the time
whole screen!
11.
In the package with the editor (apparently direct
mo inside) there will be several
utility programs - FONT EDITOR, SPRITE -
GENERATOR, SCREEN COMPRESSOR and others.
11.1 FONT EDITOR
I will list just a few (by no means all)
features: UNDO function, fast
scrolling characters in all directions,
the opportunity to mark certain symbols
ly and carry out further operations
only above them, thickening, outline, etc.
11.2 SPRITE GENERATOR
Cutting sprites from screens, creating
knowledge of tables and everything necessary.
11.3 SCREEN COMPRESSOR
LAZY from the ETC group wrote a compressor,
significantly superior to "ASC SCREEN CRA
SHER". The guys from ETC promised to provide
it for use in editing
re (THANX!)
12.
The editor will be controlled
dance simultaneously from SINCLAIR, KEMPS-
TON,KEYBOARD (Q,A,O,P,SPACE). If I
will provide the necessary information, then
control from KEMPS will be implemented -
TON and AY MOUSE. Everyone who is interested in this
Sovan, write me a letter immediately -
mo (address at the end of the article). Sameconcerns-
Xia printer owners. None of them
members of our group do not have a printer, so
so we need all the information regarding
this.
13.
Being an artist, I could not help but devote
due attention to program design.
I hope you like the look of the editor -
who.
All this is not a complete list of new
processions that are planned to be implemented in
program. There are also some ideas
which we consider inappropriate and,
apparently, we will not deal with their implementation
lization, namely the ability to edit
introduction of screens larger than
256 X 192 pixels, built-in editors
MULTICOLOR and BORDER pictures.
It is interesting to see users' opinions about the need
adequacy of these functions.
When creating the program, we try
use the most advanced equipment
coding technologies. If possible there will be
increased speed of all editing procedures
ra.Some hardware features:
memory: 128k and more (full addressing),
support for all versions of TR-DOS.
As you can see, there is a very big
project. At this stage, in its implementation
leniya, anyone who can take part
wants. Write to us and tell me yours -
nie.With all distribution offers
contact me (VIATOR).
We want to say right away that this will not be
SHAREWARE product.
At this stage the interface has been written and
some functions, but the bulk of the work
bots are yet to come.
Now above the editor exceptwork for me
SADMAN, SEM and FALCON melt.
Useful advice was given to us by: PANDA, SOI
and IMP.
The speed of progress of work on the project is
om depends largely on the received
calls and from specific proposals for design
tributes. For some members of our
groups are the only chance to improve
your financial situation...
Address for letters: 250005 Ukraine,
Chernigov,
Kievskaya st.,
6, apt. 34.
Onishchenko Victor.
Phone: /04622/ 5-36-08 (Victor/VIATOR)
(The easiest way to catch me at home on the way out is
days, on holidays, etc.)
3.XII.96 With best wishes,VIATOR of AVA-
LON.
---Some time passed----
P.S. It’s May 14th and I (Panda) want something
what to add on your behalf.
The fact is that this article assumes
moose published in a magazine from ETC
GROUP, but events unfolded in such a way that
there will be no magazine as such (!due to
with a shortage of workers on the Spectrum),
therefore I am passing on this material so that it
didn’t lie like a dead weight in the box (yes, just
Vitek and others credit me for this.
From the latest news I can say that
editor planned for August 1997 (En-
light),+some cool demos from DMS,AVALON,
ETC.So, is time for me to leave... bye!
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