NEOchrome Master

                     NEOchrome Master



     by Chaos, Inc. of the Delta Force (member of the Union)







Preview:



NEOchrome Master offers you the following features:

        - up to 10 different workscreens

        - totally keyboard controlled

        - faster drawing of the board.

        - calculate colours, also STE

        - using of the Fileselectbox by loading AND saving

        - loading- and saving-routines for different picture types:

                - NEOchrome

                - Degas packed and unpacked

                - IFF

                - Doodle

        - Checking the commandline and changing to the right picture type and 
loading the picture.

        - formatting of disks 100% MS-DOS

        - deleting files

        - rotate objects at any angle (not only 90 degrees)

        - cutter utility to cut objects into a library

        - saving of the copybox in image format

        - totally new animation tool

        - saving of the colour palette (assembler and C syntax)

        - and changing the colour palette in every scanline

        - STE/Blitter support

        - rasters!

        - magnify in the lower border of the fullscreen

        - remap function

        - Saving all options

        - works also on TTs
        - antialiasing

        - module concept
        - ....





0. Keyboard codes:



'A'       Animate tool

'B'       Brush

'C'       Copybox

'D'       Disk

'E'       Eraser

'F'       Fill

'G'       Grabber

'I'       Grid

'J'       Jack Knife

'L'       Line

'N'       Nozzle

'P'       Pencil

'R'       Rasters

'S'       Shapes

'T'       Text

'X'       Cutter



Escape    turn board on and off



Shift-ESC select colour #0 as painting colour

'1'       select colour #1 as painting colour

'2'       ...

.         ...

'9'       ...

'0'       select colour #10 as painting colour

'ž'       select colour #11 as painting colour (on German keyboard)

'''       select colour #12 as painting colour (-'-)

'#'       ...

Backspace ...

Help      select colour #15 as painting colour



(On american and other keyboards the colours can be changed by the buttons on 
the upper row of the keyboard including all special chars.)



It depends on the available memory how many workscreens NEOchrome offers to 
you.



'0'       select workscreen #0 (on numerical keyboard)

'1'       select workscreen #1 (on numerical keyboard).

.

'9'       select workscreen #9 (on numerical keyboard)



Space     selects the actual colour palette









In General:



NEOchrome Master is done by Chaos, Inc. of The Delta Force (member of the 
still ruling UNION). It's based on a reassembled version of NEOchrome v1.0.

The original reassembled sourcecode is about 280 Kbyte length. The 
sourcecode of version 2.23 has 720 Kbyte.




What now follows is a description of all new functions:



UNDO of the board is now splitted into two parts: UNDO in general and colour 
undo. Clicking at UNDO uses the normal UNDO-function (Pressing the 'Undo'-key 
does the same). If you change anything at the colour palette, and you like to 
turn this changes back, click with the left mouse button at colour (undo). 
Clicking with the right mouse button at colour (undo) changes only the actual 
painting colour back.





p1. Jack Knife



On new function of the jack knife is to print the contents of the copybuffer 
(jack knife and copybox buffer are equal). This can be done by clicking at 
'print' or by pressing 'F10'.



Another new function is called 'remap'. Imagine the following situation: You 
painted a font and you want to use this font in a picture. But the colour 
palette of the picture is different from the one of the font. So you've to 
change the colours of the font to fit to the colour palette of the picture. This 
can be done by using 'remap'. Mark the block you like to remap and cut or copy 
it. This is important, because by cutting/copying (F1/F2) the object, 
NEOchrome Master knows the colour palette of the original object. Then switch 
to your new picture and paste (F3) the object. Drag it to the place where it 
should be (rasters are recognized) and remap (F5). NEOchrome now tries to fit 
the original object as good as possible to the new colour palette.

But there's another feature. Clicking with the right button at 'remap' or 
pressing 'Shift+F5' forces NEOchrome Master to use only the colours between the 
left and right colour mark. This is useful to convert pictures to one/two/three 
planes, or to change a lot of colors at once.

But remember: NEOchrome Master always uses the colour palette, which was active 
when you copied/cutted the object. If you don't cut the object, then the old 
colour palette will be used.

There's also a function called 'a-alias' which removes hard contrasts in your 
pictures. It can only work if there are suitable colours for it. For example: 
you can't antialias white pictures without having any greytones. But this 
function doesn't replace a good painters work. If there's no block selected, 
the screen will be antialiased.



p2. Copybox



You can now rotate the contents of the copybox at any angle. To select any 
angle different to 90 degrees klick on the angle value by the left or (right) 
button. This will increase (decrease) the angle. You can also select the 
direction of the rotation by clicking on the small arrow right of the angle.



Rotating for 90 degrees uses the old NEOchrome routine.





p3. Grabber



NEOchrome Master is able to calculate the needed colours between two colours. 
Put the left and the right colour mark (move them by dragging with the right 
mouse button) to the desired left and right value of the colours. Select 
'calculate colours'. NEOchrome Master will now calculate all colours between the 
left and right colour mark so that there is a continues colour flow from the 
left color marked colour to the right one.

You can now save the selected colour palette (see Rasters for more details on 
selecting palettes) in an ASCII-file to include it into your sourcecode. 
NEOchrome Master can save for use by assembler or by C.



It's now also possible to save the contents of the copybox as image file. This 
means, that NEOchrome Master saves the data of the copybox, not an ASCII file. 
All 'CopyBxxx.xxx' are now saved in the actual load directory.



Clicking with the right button at 'SAVE COPYB.xx' allows you to enter the 
filename and path under which the file is saved.





p4. Fill



Left button will fill as usual. The right button will fill with the 
backround colour to delete a polygon.

The whole miscellany options are now available by the fill function. This was 
necessary to get a new place in order to put the Raster function there.



Here are a few more options. First of all, you can select whether you want to 
work with the 4096 STE-Colours. This works on ANY ST(E). When you select STE on 
an normal ST, than you can adjust up to 4096 colours, but you can only see up 
to 512 (By, the way, I'm working on a version, which is able to display all 
4096 colours on normal STs).



Next you can turn the blitter on and off. When you are working with rasters, 
the blitter disturbs the system. It's switched off automatically when you set 
a raster. With this button you can turn the blitter on again (Then you've 
flickering rasters)...



You can turn the 'Magnifying glasses' of the fullscreen on and off. You can 
also adjust the heigth of this magnify. This maximum height depends on your ST 
and monitor. Use left and right button to increase or decrease the value.


There's also an bigger enlarger. You can change the type of enlarger 
you're using by using the left and right mousebutton at 'TYP', or by 
pressing '+' and '-' at the numerical keypad.


What now follows is the so called 'adjustable border'. Depending on your ST 
the number of NOPs may differ a little from other STs. If you've difficulties 
with your ST (e.g. flickering border, shifting of the whole picture,..) then 
try to adjust this value. There are different values for 50 and 60 Hz. Again, 
left button to increase, right button to decrease. Sometimes, the whole 
picture is shiftet, even when you're not using fullscreen. Then toggle the 
synchronisation from 60->50 or 50->60, then your ST should be working 
normally.



On the right side is the button 'COLOR #'. With the help of this button you
can show the number of all colours inside the colour palette. Another button is
called 'PORTA 7'. Using this button toggles the 7th Bit of the port A of the
soundchip (Useful to switch a cache on/off). The button MUSIC allows  you to
turn a music on and off. The music can be loaded by a right mouseclick at
"MUSIC #" (It's only possible to load Jochen Hippel's  PC-relative muzaks).
But be careful using this function... If you  selected a file, that is
anything except a Hippel-Music, NEOchrome  may crash....The best way to paint
with music is to load the music  first, and then to save the options (which
also saves the path and  filename of the music) and then to paint. The little
number behind the "#" shows the number of music you are listening to. Nearly
all Hippelmusics are containing several tunes. You can change your  selection
by clicking at the number with the right and left  mousebutton. "S-Saver" 
turns the Screensaver on and off. If it's turned on, it blanks out the 
screen after about 3 minutes.




The next buttons allows you to switch from 50 to 60 Hz or vice visa.



The last button 'Save all options' saves all options, that you can select by 
NEOchrome Master. This are e.g. the line width, the text style, the picture 
format, the heigth of the border, the number of NOPs...







p5. Eraser



Clicking once on the eraser icon selects eraser function. If you click with 
the right button again on this icon NEOchrome Master quits. Pressing the left 
button again deletes the whole picture without any UNDO.





p6. Disk



NEOchrome Master is now able to load files from different picture types. 
Clicking once at the disk icon you're able to select the desired picture type 
for loading and saving seperatly.

NEOchrome Master is able to check for the right picture type and select this 
type automatically. This is only possible when the selected picture is saved 
in IFF-format, by NEOchrome Master in NEOchrome format, or as packed Degas 
picture. Otherwise NEOchrome Master will try to load the picture by the 
selected format.

Saving pictures is always done in the selected format.



You can format disk 100% MS-DOS compatible on any TOS version by clicking at 
'format' (single- and double sided).



To delete files simply click 'delete'.





p7. Cutter



This is one of the most complex new routines in NEOchrome Master. I'll try to 
explain it as good as possible, but you've to try it on your own for full 
understanding.



With the help of the Cutter you can cut objects to animate them or to save 
them into a special file called 'object-file'. This file contains all 
information about the cutted objects, so you can use this object file to be 
loaded by your own program as a graphix library.



There are two ways of selecting objects: Firstly, you can open a box similiar 
to the way of the copybox. Secondly, you can force NEOchrome to search for a 
frame which surrounds the object. Here it is necessary to set the painting 
colour to the colour of the frame (e.g. using the grabber). Afterwards click 
into the frame with the right mouse button.



After selecting any objects it is possible to change the size of the selecting 
box by clicking the left mouse button at any side or edge of the selecting 
box. This will resize the selecting box in the way you'd clicked at the 
object.



In order to move a selecting box you click into the selected area with the 
right mouse button while pressing the button.



Realize, so far you just selected an object. To put it into your graphix 
library click on 'ADD' placed in the options menu (F1 does the same). The 
selected object is inserted before the right box.



How to replace/show/delete a object that is already stored in your graphix 
library?



(i)  Select the actual object using the right and left arrow.

(ii) click on 'Change' (='F2') /'Show' (='F3') /'Delete'.



(Note:    You can only insert or add an object when you'd selected an area 
before.)



NEOchrome Master knows the position of all cutted objects. By clicking on 
'Show', NEOchrome Master sets the selecting box to its stored position. 
NEOchrome Master also knows the name of the picture from which the objects are 
cutted. 'Show' also switches to the corresponding screen from which the object 
was cutted. But 'Show' shows only the coordinates of the object not the data 
of the object. When you click with the right button at 'Show' then the data of 
the object is copied to the screen and all rasters of the object are set. This 
is important to check whether the right objects are stored. It's also useful 
when you lost your picture fro which the objects are cutted. So you can 
'restore' these pictures.



How to save/load/clear all objects of your library?

(i)  Click on save/load/new.



If you save your library, NEOchrome Master asks you whether it should save all 
headers too. 'No' means that the pure data is being saved without any further 
information (Note: This fromat can't be loaded again!). 'Yes' will save all 
information, like position and size too (Note: Only this fromat can be 
loaded). If you load a library, NEOchrome Master asks you whether it should 
load all pictures too. As you may remember, NEOchrome Master also knows the 
name of the pictures from which the objects were cutted. All these pictures 
are loaded by selecting 'Yes'.



In case you've changed some graphix simply select 're-cut' (=F10) and 
NEOchrome Master cuts all objects again.



The structure of the object-file (for use with own programs):For 
none-C-programmers: char=byte, int=word.



---------------------------------------------



For Version $0100:



char header[6];               always 'NEOOBJ'

int version;                  version e.g. $0100

char filenames[4][13];        names of the four used pictures

long filelength;              number of bytes following after this entry

int number;                   number of objects in this file



---------------------------------------------



For Version $0101:



char header[6];               always 'NEOOBJ'

int version;                  version e.g. $0101

int internal_bytes;           number of internal bytes following; Skip them..



This is repeated as often as internal_bytes/14: (But this may be changed 
sometimes)

--->

|   char screen_number;       number of the following workscreen

|   char filename[13];        Filename for this workscreen

---



long filelength;              number of bytes following after this entry

int number;                   number of objects in this file



------------------------------------------------



The following structure is called 'object_header':



( 0) long offset;             Offset to object data (relativ object_header[0])

( 4) int width;

( 6) int height;

( 8) unsigned char mask;      Is there a mask? (unused)

( 9) unsigned char planes;    # of planes (always 4)

(10) int width_bytes;

(12) int x_neo;               Position inside NEOchrome picture

(14) int y_neo;               -'-

(16) long multi;              Multi-Use (Important for rasters!)

                    

Saving without any headers starts at this point:



After all object_headers follows the data of the objects....





There's another feature: Clicking with the right button at 'add'/'Replace' or 
holding the shiftkey during 'F1'-'F4' forces NEOchrome Master to add also the 
used rasters/colourpalette to the objekt. E.g. you've an object with some 
rasters in it. Cut it with Shift-'F1'. Then all the rasters which are used by 
the object are saved too. Under the number of the actual object appears a 
small 'R' if this objekt is saved with rasters.



These rasters are saved after the datas of each objekt. There fileformat is 
the same than '*.RST'. Only the used rasters are saved. There Offsets (which 
were relative to the screenstart) are now relative to the top of the object.





What about the multi flag in the object_header?



Bits  0.. 7: The number of the screen from which the objekt is cutted.

Bits  8..15: The number of rasters which are used by the object (Important!)

Bits 15..31: Yet reserved for future use.









p8. Animate



The animation tool can show all objects cutted or loaded by the Cutter. The 
number of the actual object is written between the two arrows. This object is 
shown on the screen. The position, where this object is drawn, can be changed 
by clicking in the icons at the lower right edge of the screen. There are five 
position where objects can be drawn:

(i)       left top edge of the screen. That means, that all left 
          upper edges ob the objects are placed in the upper left 
          edge of the screen.

(ii)      Right top edge of the screen.....

(iii)     Right bottom of the screen...

(iv)      Left bottom of the screen.

(v)       Center of the screen. All objects are centered in the 
          middle of the screen (e.g. useful for objects that are 
          getting greater). 



When you click at any place of the screen, the objects will be animated at 
this place. Since version 2.17 you can now animate on a background. Simply 
select the screen you want as background (by pressing 0..9) and click where 
you want your aninmation.



Animate can also automatically show all objects. You can tell NEOchrome Master 
where to start and where to end. To do so, click on arrow up or down of the 
desired border. NEOchrome Master will start by the number shown in the left 
arrow. It will end by the number shown in the right arrow (e.g. to show 
objects 5..9 select '9' in the right border by clicking on the up/down arrows. 
Then select '5' for the left arrow. ).

Clicking with the left mouse button into one of the arrows shows the 
next/previous object. At the end NEOchrome will start over again. Clicking 
with the right mouse button into one of the buttons shows all objects 
automatically. This means, that NEOchrome Master in/decreases the number of 
the actual object by itself. To increase the speed of the animation you must 
again click with the right/left mouse button into the arrow. Whether to use 
the right or left mouse button depends on the direction of the animation (it's 
the same thing than the changing of speed for the colour animation).

There's one great problem: If the speed of the animation is at maximum level 
there is no more mouse cursor. To decrease the speed to a normal level press 
cursor down. Consequently you can press cursor up for more speed. Cursor left 
and right selects the previous/next object to show.



Sometimes it is necessary to show the objects in a way called "ping pong". 
Here NEOchrome Master doesn't start over again at the right border. In spite 
it changes the direction and animates back. You can select this way by 
clicking at '<->'. 



But there is more to say....



Maybe you have more than one animation in your graphix library (e.g. 1..5 and 
6..9). These are two 'sequenz'. You can change the actual sequenz by clicking 
at the right or left arrow beside 'sequenz'. Every sequenz has it's own 
parameters. If you change from one sequenz to another one NEOchrome Master 
changes all parameters to their last values.



Saving just saves the values of all sequenzes not the data of the objects!



With the help of load you can load new values into the animate tool. The 
objects remain unchanged.





p9. Rasters



To get more colourful pictures you can now change the colour palette at a 
special scanline. This can be done by 'rasters'.



There are up to 200 colour palettes per picture. The actual colour palette can 
be selected by clicking on the right and left arrow.

You can also press at cursor right or left to select a palette.

Colour palette #0 is the so called 'vbl-palette'. This palette is shown from 
the beginning of the screen till the 1st raster. 



To set a colour palette at a specific scanline click with left mouse button 
into your picture. At this position will the raster appear.



A big problem is the Blitter. The structure of the Atari ST makes it 
impossible, at least for me, to get stable rasters without turning the Blitter 
off. This means that the rasters flicker when moving big objects with the 
copybox. Turn the Blitter off (using the miscellany menu) and they stay quiet. 
(Again, solutions to this problem to me, Chaos, Inc.).



The position of the actual raster is written in the options board. It can also 
be showed by clicking at 'Show'. You can erase a raster from your picture by 
either clicking at y=0 or clicking at 'Delete'.

To transfer a single colour palette click on the arrow-up. This stores the 
actual colour palette in a buffer. You can read this buffer by clicking at 
arrow-down. This causes NEOchrome Master to replace the actual colour palette 
by the stored one.

You can also save/load rasters by clicking at save/load. All rasters are 
erased from the screen by clicking at 'clear'.

All rasters with position and colours can be stored by clicking at 'Put'. 
Afterwards it's possible to get all these rasters again by clicking at 'Get'. 
This is useful to transfer all rasters from one picture/screen to another.

Put and get are also able to sort the rasters. Clicking with the right 
mousebutton at 'Put' stores the rasters and sorts them afterwards inside the 
Get/Put-Buffer. 'Get' with right mousebutton gets the rasters from the buffer 
and sorts them afterwards inside the picture.



Here is the format of the file containing all rasters (*.RST):



----->

|       WORD y_position;        /* shows the position of this raster */

|       WORD palette[16];       /* The colours of the raster */

|

------  This is repeated 200 times.



The first entry of the file is always the vbl-palette. Its y-position is set 
to zero. All following rasters with a y_position of zero are not active.

It's also possible that the y_positions of the rasters are not sorted. It's 
exactly the same setting as made in NEOchrome Master.



To save only the used rasters, click with the right mousebutton at 'SAVE'.



There's another button, called 'LD PAL'. This means 'Load Palette'.

Imagine the following situation. You painted a logo. Now you want this logo to 
get more colourful. e.g. with all rainbow colours in it.

The colour in which the logo is painted may be #1. Set rasters into your logo 
at every scanline. The palette of the rasters could be copied by using 
arrow-up and arrow-down (s.a.). Now you must change colour #0 at every palette. 
Now it's time to use 'LD PAL'. Select colour #1. This colour would be changed by 
'LD PAL'. Select the first raster of the logo as the actual raster. Click on 
'LD PAL'. NEOchrome now asks for a *.PAL file. This file contains only colours. 
The first colour of the file overwrites the selected colour of the actual 
palette. The next colour of the file overwrites the selected colour of the next 
raster following the actual raster on the screen. This means, that you can 
change only one colour, but in all following rasters.



The format of this *.PAL file is very simple:

It contains only words without any header. This means every colour is coded 
into one word (like in the colour palette register at $FF8240). The end of the 
file is marked by $ffff or by the physical file end.



Important Note for painting with rasters: NEOchrome Master always shows in its 
board the colour palette used at the mouseposition. Imagine the following 
situation. You are drawing a picture with two palettes. They are switched at 
position y=50. The actual colour palette is #1 (from 50..199). Painting at y=20 
shows you the colour palette which is used at this coordinate. Moving the 
mousecursor into the board always shows the actual colour palette (here it's 
the wrong one, because your're painting with palette #0). Maybe you get 
confused looking at the wrong colour palette. Now it's time to use 'space'. 
Move the mousecursor back at position y=20. Press space. This selects the 
palette #0 (used at y=20) as the actual one. Moving into the option board now 
shows the colour palette you are working with. Pressing 'space' works with all 
drawing function, not only rasters....



Sometimes it's useful to set more than one raster. For example: You want a 
rainbow starting at scanline 20 and ending at scanline 40. First of all you've 
to set a raster (e.g. raster #20) to scanline 20. Then select raster #40 as 
the actual raster. Click with the right mousebutton at scanline 40. NEOchrome 
Master knows now that it should put rasters from scanline 20 (the last used 
entry) to the mouseposition (scanline 40). There's room for 20 rasters and so 
NEOchrome Master puts a raster at every scanline from 20 to 40.

If you'd selected raster #30 as the actual raster and you'd also clicked at 
scanline 40 then there would be a raster every two scanlines.

After putting all the rasters, you can load you rainbow using 'LD PAL'.



One more thing about rasters.... Only saving a picture in IFF-format saves the 
raster too. Remember: pictures with rasters should always be saved in 
IFF-format (Otherwise you lose your rasters).

(NEOchrome adds a new chunk to the IFF-file. This chunk is called 'RAST' and 
its contents is the same than a *.RST file containing only the used rasters.)











That's it folks.....



I'm always glad to hear your opinion, critics and wishes about NEOchrome 
Master. Send them to me or give me a call.... Every bug that is send to me 
will be fixed (Please make a good description containing TOS version, computer 
type, RAM configuration, NEOchrome version and bug description).





If you like NEOchrome Master send some donation either to Dave Staugas or to 
me, Chaos, Inc. When some people decide to send me some money, then
there will be some updates with even more features. If you have any
good  routines (e.g. dithered fill) please send them to me (the
address will follow),  I'll try to put them in further versions.
 And
remember..... NEOchrome beat'em all!
 


 
 


What's new....

Version 2.07:



     - some bugs has been fixed.

     - Rasters now over the whole screen at any scanline.

     - 'LD PAL' to change only one colour, but in every palette.

     - STE support could be switched on and off

     - magnifying glasses at the lower border of the fullscreen.

     - calculating colors also for STE.

     - the automatical recognation for the file type is now better.

     - You can now save all options that you selected.



Version 2.10:



     - totally new keyboard control routine, that's able to repair damaged 
data packages send by IKBD. It's a little bit self repairing. I hope that you 
don't have as much trouble as with TurboAss' keyboard routine. (In fact all 
TurboAss versions above 1.50 are really very (!) good!).

     - the load_object_bug of version 2.07 is fixed.



Version 2.15:



     - The whole thing with the keyboard driver is rewritten. This means, taht 
you can now use up to 200 rasters even with 60 Hz. If you're now using more 
than 180 rasters at 60 Hz there is nearly no more flickering.

     - Rotating an object at 90 degrees uses now the old rotate-routine from 
NEOchrome V1.0. It's much faster now and more useful.

     - Automatically putting of rasters from scanline x to scanline y.

     - different left and right colour marks for different screens.



Version 2.16:


     - and again some bugs (e.g. transfer Jack Knife from one screen to 
another).

     - Showing the number of the colour inside the colour box.

     - Sorting rasters.

     - Save only used rasters->shorter IFF-pictures

     - Right button at UNDO is now color undo.

     - Right button at 'SAVE Copyb.xx' allows you to enter a path and filename

     - Right button at 'Save Raster' saves only used rasters.

     - Adding the used rasters to objects too.

     - adjustable border-open-routine (works on every ST).

     - animation with background. (Click where you want your object)



Version 2.17:


     - NEOchrome checks itself for linkviruses.

     - there's a small 'R' under the objectnumber, when this object is cutted 
with rasters.

     - a printer output of the copybox using grey tones.

     - selectable backround colour for right button (pencil and fill).

     - left and right button with pencil draw with colour #0.

     - Right button at Show (Object) shows the object (and rasters) 
physically.

     - Recut cuts rasters too.

     - there's a little colour palette in the border of the fullscreen.

     - IFF can now load and save STE-colours.

     - IFF-Save Bug is fixed (saved pictures hadn't worked on 
Atari-Transputer-Workstations (That's no joke!)).



Version 2.18:


     - no more bug-fixing...

     - a remap function

     - the copybox is put at the old place by using paste.

     - you can toggle the bit 7 of Port A of the PSG (e.g. to switch a cache 
on and off).


Version 2.19: (first official release)

     - a little effect when you start NEOchrome (just see)
     - the sync-errors are corrected



Version 2.20: (ST-News party release)


     - how much bugs are now left?

     - an antialias function is in there

     - copybox is now pasted at the last position

     - right double click in the colour definer takes the actual painting colour 
into the colour definer

     - some more options are saved (e.g. default palette (HI! Tanis))

     - there's a line-editor (but it's not ready yet)


Version 2.21: (Tanis special release)

     - A screensaver is included
     - NEOchrome can now play Hippelsounds while painting

Version 2.22:

     - again some bugs (I've left a few ones)
     - a few consmetical changes (new icons)
     - IFF-Palette saves now rasters too.

Version 2.23 (Thor of BMT special release):

     - some difficulties and problems
     - BIG moving enlarger (4x, 8x, 16x)
     - a bug with large *.PC1 and *.IFF is now fixed (packed data 
     longer than unpacked data->buffer overflow).
     

Version 2.25:
     - Ctrl-'L', Ctrl-'S', Ctrl-'X'
     - Ctrl 'Esc'-Ctrl'Help' sets background colour
     - the segmentation of the magnifier can now be switched off
     - Jack Knife <-> Copybox Transfer
     - painting inside the fixed enlarger (TAB to fix, Shift-Tab to 
     release).

Version 2.26:
     - again a few bugs (will not be mentioned anymore)
     - module concept (Use Miscellany 'USERx' to load an module)
     - 'M'=Magnify on/off
     - correct loading of Degas Pictures
     - showing width and height of copybox
     - Shift-F3 pastes copybox at cutted position, F3 at middle of 
     screen.
     - ',' is now color-pickup (Thanx GOGO and Eric for ALL support)
     - Cursorkeys move the fixed enlarger.



Version 2.27:

     - ClrHome deletes whole picture (does not exist in all painting function)





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Planned for the future:
     - userdefined line-patterns

     - a selectable grid width

     - only using 1,2,3, or 4 planes in cutter.

     - bigger pictures (e.g. 640x400)

     - monochrome painting (?)

     - selecting the number of workscreens to get more memory for cutter.

     - dithered fill




                        signed 



             Chaos, Inc. of The Delta Force.



P.S.: The contact address for any suggestions, donations or bugreports is:

                            Delta Force
                            PLK 136681E
                          7050  Waiblingen
                            West-Germany

          (But don't send any illegal software, we are NO pirates!)