Slide-show creator for the snes v3.0 May 10, 1995
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- What you need :  PCX files of EXACTLY 320x200 with 256 colours.
  You have to convert GIF or JPG files or whatever you use to PCX files.
  Use a utility such as Alchemy to crop or resize PCX files which are
  over or under the 320x200 limit. Alchemy has an option which will
  preserve aspect ratio when resizing, which makes it a good choice to
  use. Alchemy version 1.8 (by Handmade Software) is the latest and
  includes a very easy to use front end interface (GUI.EXE). If you
  have 16 color 320x200 PCX files, you must convert them to 256 colors
  (8 bit). This can also be very easily done with Image Alchemy 1.8 from
  the GUI program.

- Create a \PCX directory and copy all the 320x200 PCX files into that
  directory. (Example: Place program files in C:\ and PCX files in C:\PCX)

- To create slideshow, execute  "SLIDES.EXE druve:\PCX"
  Example:  C:> SLIDES C:\PCX

- You'll see all the PCX files on the screen while processing. Color
  and pallette conversion will be performed and you will first see a false
  color then a true color conversion while processing.

- During processing, many different temporary src, binary and opt files
  will be created. When the processing is complete, all of these will be
  deleted.

- A file called "SLIDE.SMC" will be created which contains your SMC
  executable slideshow. The first slide in each slideshow will be my
  LION logo.

- DO NOT attempt to use the normal SNASM with this program. This utility
  includes a modified version of SNASM which contains my PCX logo in it.
  DO NOT use this version of SNASM for any other of your cross assembling,
  only use it with SLIDES.EXE!

- Make sure that no other copies of SNASM.EXE are present in your path
  other than the one included with this archive when running the program.

- Ver 3: Fixed several bugs with pallette conversion and source code creation.

- Files included in 3.0 release:

 FILE_ID.DIZ  -  Description of 3.0 release
  SLIDES.DOC  -  Docs (Duh!)
  SLIDES.EXE  -  Main SLIDE.SMC creation utility, takes only one command line
                 parameter (e.g. SLIDES C:\PCX) which specifies where to find
                 the 320x200x256 PCX files.
   SNASM.EXE  -  Modified version of SNASM 65C816 Cross Assembler version 1
                 It should NEVER be used for any other purpose since it is
                 specifically modified for this program. Conversely, an
                 original non-modified version of SNASM will not work with
                 this utility.

 ANISNES.EXE  -  Modified utility to create .SAD and .SAF files used in the
                 creation of the slideshow.


Lion 10/5/95