page%ulowell.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (10/18/85)
From: Bob Page <page%ulowell.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA> The _Hold_And_Modify_ (H.A.M.) demo has an invisible close gadget in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. That will get rid of it. Other demos are trickier; i.e. some versions of Boing! require you to pull the screen down; the close gadget is on another menu on the WB screen. > From: Henry Kautz <henry> > 1. The amiga software does not support fonts directly, or anything like > the mac/imagewriter ability to mix various fonts and graphics. You can > draw pretty color pictures, but forget about seeing them on paper (yet). > Forget (probably forever) about being able to install different fonts > in different system disks, etc. Wow, that sounds pretty bad...where did you find this info? Certainly not from simply playing with the machine at the dealer's. Notepad mixes fonts fine, my Tally-80 (Epson-compatible) prints them very well. The Diablo color printer prints excellent replicas of the screen right now; the Okimate 20 isn't too bad either. And the Kernel has custom font support: AddFont - add a font to the system list AskFont - get text attributes of the current font AskSoftStyle - get soft style (agorithmically generated) bits of current font BltBitMap - move a rectangle in a raster BltTemplate - "cookie cut" a shape in a rectangle to the RastPort CloseFont - release a pointer to a system font OpenFont - get a pointer to a system font RemFont - remove a font from the system list SetFont - set the text font and attributes in a RastPort SetSoftStyle - set the soft style of the current font These (and more) routines use the TextFont data structure that you manipulate. Open mouth, insert font. > 5. The current voice-synthesizer software doesn't sound any better > than Smoothtalker on the mac. Notice words 'current' and 'software'. Also notice you don't have to buy it. ~Bob (The Amigo) ---- page%ulowell.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa PO Box 283, Lowell MA 01853