Aug 18 1995 Version 2.030 MAND2000 © Copyright 1993, Cygnus Software Cygnus Software 33 University Square, #199 Madison, WI, 53715 USA CygnusSoft@cup.portal.com (608) 277-0413 (12-8PM central time) Dealer enquiries welcome Mand2000D is the demo version of Mand2000, a fractal exploration program created by Cygnus Software. Mand2000 is a tryware program. You can use the demo version all you want, give it to your friends, put it on club disks and post it to bulletin boards, as long as you distribute this notice, the help file and the example ARexx scripts with it. If you wish to put Mand2000D on a cover disk, or otherwise benefit from the distribution, you must ask our permission first. The TweenPlayer can also be distributed, subject to the same restrictions. This demo version has had save disabled, and will occasionally bring up a text requester to remind you that it is a demo version. The release version does save of course, and no annoying requesters will appear. Additional features that the release version has include ARexx documentation, much more help, 20 sample images, three sample animations, and some extra fractal programs, some with source code. The full version of Mand2000 can be purchased for US $44.95 direct from Cygnus Software, shipping included. Sorry, no credit cards. Cheques drawn on a US bank, money order, postal money order or US cash. The full release version allows unlimited saving of colour mapped, HAM and IFF24 images, full animation saving, and has _no_ annoying requesters. Plus it comes with a getting started manual, and additional online help. There is also a Mand2000 CD-ROM. It contains the full release version of Mand2000, plus a full CD-ROM worth of images and animations in a wide variety of resolutions, including NTSC, PAL, FrameStore and D1 video. Perfect for the video professional or fractal hobbyist. The CD-ROM version is available for 59.95 - not bad for over 30,000 frames of spectacular animations. To order, send a cheque or money order drawn on a US bank to Cygnus Software at the address at the top of this file. Mand2000 2.0 requires AmigaDOS 2.0 or higher. Mand2000 has no other special requirements and will run on any processor, with any amount of memory, and on most third party graphics boards. All prices include shipping and handling to anywhere in the world. For more information, or for technical support, please contact Cygnus Software. Full contact information is at the top of this file. New for version2.0 One of the most important improvements to version 2.0 of Mand2000 is the addition of HAM rendering of fractals. Fractals which looked boring in 32 colours or merely average in 256 colours can now look stunning in 4096 colour HAM or 262,144 colours in HAM8. This also means that when you have multiple fractal images displayed, each image can have a separate palette, and each palette can be thousands of colours. As a side effect, Mand2000 2.0 makes a pretty good multi-window IFF image viewer - it loads all standard IFF images, including IFF24. The other major improvement is improved animation support. When rendering morph movies (from the morph requester) or iteration or julia movies (from the ARexx added menus in the user menu) Mand2000 can create animation files directly. This is faster, uses less disk space, and is far more convenient than creating the frames and later assembling them into an animation. Read the help for `Rendering mode' and `Set colours' for more information. For more information on what makes Mand2000 unique and worthwhile, run Mand2000D and select the `Help and Info' menu, then select the `Overview' gadget. Mand2000 2.0 also comes with new and improved ARexx scripts and a short `getting started' manual. Installation: If you received the Mand2000 demo as a file with a .lha extension you will need a program called `lha'. Open up a CLI and type the following command: lha x Mand2000Demo.lha. This will create a directory called "Mand2000Demo" in your current directory with all of the Mand2000 files. If you received the Mand2000 demo as a set of files, simply copy these files into a directory on your harddrive. Then you should copy the arexx from the Mand2000Demo directory to your REXX: directory. This will cause several excellent new commands to appear in Mand2000's `user' menu. Trouble shooting: Mand2000 runs on all Amigas with AmigaDOS 2.0 or higher and makes full use of the AGA chipset when present. It has been tested for compatibility on Amiga 2000s, 3000s, 4000s, 500s and 1200s, with 68000, 68020, 68030 and 68040 processors, and should run on all other models as well. Mand2000 has also been tested and found to work well on many different third party graphics boards. If you have AmigaDOS 3.0 or higher, Mand2000 will run in 256 colour mode on these boards. If Mand2000 fails to run properly on your machine, the problem is usually due to conflicts with another program. Try removing all non-Commodore programs from your WBStartup and user-startup and see if this fixes the problem. Some dongles can cause problems with Mand2000's joystick scrolling - if this is a problem, turn off joystick scrolling in Mand2000's `setmisc' requester. If you still have problems, please contact us, preferably at our e-mail address (listed above) and we'll try to help you out. What is Mand2000? Mand2000 is meant to be nothing less than the finest Mandelbrot exploration program available on any computer. We have attempted to combine speed, power and simplicity with a few unique features, all designed to make it easy for you to discover uncharted regions of the Mandelbrot and Julia sets. The TweenPlayer is for playing TweenMovies, which are created from the `Make zoom movie' menu in Mand2000D. Read the online help for further information. How do you use Mand2000? To start using Mand2000, the simplest thing to do is to place the mouse over an interesting area, one of the areas with lots of detail, and then double click the left mouse button. The picture will zoom in, placing the area under the mouse in the centre of the screen. You can continue doing this as many times as you like, searching for interesting areas. To zoom out press `D'. To scroll the picture around, hold down the left mouse button and drag, or use the arrow keys, the numeric keypad, or a joystick. For full information on how to use Mand2000, read the help associated with the individual menu items. Just highlight a menu item and press the HELP key or press the HELP key any time a requester is active. For more information on what makes Mand2000 unique and worthwhile, run Mand2000D and select the `Help and Info' menu, then select the `Overview' gadget. Credits: Special thanks to Christer Sundin for writing the low level anim save routines for Mand2000. Without his generous contribution Mand2000 might not have acquired the ability to create animations directly. Thanks also to Olaf Barthel. Olaf also gave me some source code, for HAM rendering, and while I didn't end up using it, the ideas which it contained are very much a part of the HAM and HAM8 rendering. Thanks to both of you, and to all the people who have given us suggestions and bug reports. Mand2000 was created with CygnusEd and Aztec C. Also by Cygnus Software: Cygnus Software's other major product is CygnusEd. CygnusEd is a high performance text editor, featuring what is probably still the fastest scrolling and text rendering of any editor on the Amiga today. Add to that such invaluable features as unlimited undo, etc., etc. Version 3.5 of CygnusEd was extensively updated to take advantage of the features that AmigaDos 2.0 has to offer. 3-D gadgets, public screens, the standard file, font and screen requesters, and the full AGA screen resolutions. Meanwhile CygnusEd still maintains full compatibility with version 1.3 of the operating system, bringing the 3-D gadgetry to 1.3. CygnusEd 3.5's macro and configuration files and ARexx scripts are almost 100% compatible with earlier versions. CygnusEd is also published by Cygnus Software, and is available for $59.95, including shipping. CygnusEd is no longer distributed by Elastic Reality. Mand2000 was created with CygnusEd and Aztec C. Enjoy! Bruce and Helen Dawson, Cygnus Software.