*********************************** *********************************** ***** ***** ***** SuperSHAM Version 3.2 ***** ***** ***** ***** © Copyright 1989 ***** ***** Robert Salesas ***** ***** All Rights Reserved ***** ***** ***** *********************************** *********************************** This is released as a copyrighted product. You can use it but you can not sell it. You can also NOT include it in disk magazines, alongside commercial products or in PD collections charging more than $7.00US per diskette. Otherwise distribution is not restircted!!! Please abide by these rules!!! COMING IN 4.0 ------------- I am working on a direct 12--bitplane printing routine that will speedup up output a tenfold as well as saving some of you precious ribbon. Sadly I won't get around to this for some time, current projects come first! CHANGES IN 3.2 -------------- 3.2 fixes a bug that appears when you try to display NON-SHAM pics. I corrected it by eliminating the possibility to show them. This might dissappoint some people but just consider: there are A LOT of good IFF viewers out there, I don't intend to compete with them. SuperSHAM is just a SHAM previewer and printer. It's MAIN purpose is to allow people to print these beautiful pictures without distortion. CHANGES IN 3.1 -------------- I added the possibility to advance through the pictures by pressing any key. If you press the LEFT mouse button you will FREEZE the picture and the keyboard will have no effect. You can still use the menu button to display your choices. This allows you to scroll through many pictures just by using the keyboard. When you find the one you want to print, you click the menu button and select print. At this point clicking the mouse still stops the printing. DOCS FOR 3.0 ------------ SuperSHAM is utility program that allows you to view and/or print any Amiga SHAM mode picture. It does this by modifying the color registers that are used at every scan line. In effect the computer never notices that the palette is being modified, but you do. To see this, load a SHAM image in a normal viewer and notice how the palette is all distorted. Printing such a picture would also produce bad results. That is why SuperSHAM uses a special internal algorithm to change the colors the printer device sees at each line. It is for this reason that printing a SHAM picture takes so long. The printer has to do it one line at a time. SuperSHAM allows you to pass it Workbench projects or CLI argumetns. It will then load the picture and wait for you to press the menu button. At this point it will present you with a requester to let you choose whether you want to PRINT the image or go on either to the next image or simply to quit. If you choose to print the image and then decide to stop it, just hit the any mouse button. This will cause SuperSHAM to return to input mode where it will once again wait for you to select the menu button. When printing make sure your preferences are properly set. Best results can be obtained BY: - Using high quality bond paper gives crisper colors. - Using friction feed instead of tractor feed. It minimizes the horizontal banding. - Using the lowest or second lowest density setting allows for pictures that are less muddy or dark. Only use higher densities If your sure you don't like the lower ones. Happy printing! Please report all bugs and/or comments to me at: CIS 76625,1320 PLINK ROBINETTE