cs122cg@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (09/28/90)
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Hello,
Last night a friend of mine showed me an old program called the Complete
Graphics System. I have used Apple's for a long time and I never had
the chance to see this program. I was in need of a graphics program
that uses the mouse or keyboard and does a good zoom mode.
Well, this program has a nice one, but it doesn't run under Prodos
and it doesn't have the capability to toggle bits in the zoom mode.
Still, it was written in Applesoft and I could modify it. It is the
only program I know that could do the zoom mode correctly and easily.
(8/16 Paint and Blazing Paddles are too difficult to use. You can't
easily predict what color will result). It also has some nice pain
features that I wouldn't have expected. I seem to remember that a
program called the Artist that might do the proper zoom mode
stuff, does anybody know?
Anyhow, does Penguin Software still exist and/or did they make a
ProDOS version of this wonderful program? Where can I purchase it?
Thanks for any help,
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%% Dru Nelson %% Miami, FL %% Internet: dnelson@mthvax.cs.miami.edu %%
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Penquin Software changed their name to Polarware due to a copyright problem with Penquin Books. The old phone number was (312)-232-1984, but it was changed to (708)-232-1984 when the new area code was created. They were locatedin Geneva, Il, and it was run by Mark Pelczarski, who wrote the Graphics Magician. I don't know if Polarware still exists or not. I doubt that they do, because most, if not all, of their support came from the Apple II. I used to have this program and it was in Dos 3.3, but it s hould run under Pro-Dos 8. Just make sure you have the Basic.System loaded, and be sure to obey the filename rules. You also mentioned another program, The Artist. This was sold by On-line (now Sierra). It was written by Warren Shroeder(sp?) and was a Dos 3.3 program. I doubt that it would work in Pro-Dos 8. It was a very crude drawing system, but its main selling point was that it offered dithered colors and a fast fill routine. It did have a zoom mode, but I don't think it is what you want. The zoom mode gave you control over each graphics bit along with the color bit. But, you couldn't control the zoom factor It was always a 28x20 (or something like that) block of dots. And each dot was big enough to be seen individually and easily changed.