H U N T E R S O F T

				 Presents

			Graphics Utilities Disk One

Contents

1. MegaColour V1.0  -   A program which transforms a B/W screen into a
			full colour screen (320*256,64 Colour).
2. Halver	    -	A program designed to create half sized images of
			graphics, similar to the halve option of paint
			packages, with a few more options.
3. Slideshow	    -	This is simply a slideshow creator to allow you
			to link up pictures into a slideshow.
4. Slideview	    -	A program with which to view a slideshow created
			with the slideshow creator.

  All above programs were designed and created by Nick Stacey with the aid of
AMOS, AMOS Compiler, DPaintIV & DScanPro and are the property of HUNTERSOFT.
The Demo versions may be freely distributed so long as the disk contains this
documentation file in unaltered form and the programs remain unaltered.
The full versions of these programs are NOT Public Domain and may not be
distributed in any shape or form (please). 

Note.
	All programs are demo versions and are obtainable, as a compilation,
for the measley sum of £5 (including postage and packing) from the following
address
	Mr N.J. STACEY,
	Gorsehill Abbey Farm,
	Collin Lane,
	Broadway.
	WORCS.		WR12 7PB

Please send a cheque made payable to  MR N J STACEY  for the sum of £5
and your software will be dispensed as soon as possible. 
Enclose Your Name And Address in BLOCK CAPITALS please.

If you purchase the full version you will be entitled to updates which I
will inform you of as and when they become available. The updates will
hopefully be approx £2 depending on circumstances.
Please write to me with any ideas for improvements, bugs or ideas for further
programs - Utilities or games.

 Now Down to the actual programs themselves.

1. MegaColour
	This was designed for the purpose of recolouring a picture that had
been scanned in using a black and white scanner but can also be used to
colour any photo type image which is monochromatic (ie pixels are distributed
about the screen to give the impression of shades).
The program itself is very simple to use and is operated entirely by mouse
via pull down menus and mouse clicks.
	The first pull down menu allows you to Load, Save or Clear a screen
and also to quit. Always Select CLS before loading a new screen so as to
clear out any rubbish left behind on the screen.
	The next pull down menu gives you the option of either Square or User
fill and determines the shape of the part of the screen that you wish to
shade. (Square fill gives you an arrow pointer and User fill a crosshair).
  To select an area on the screen to shade with square fill simply click and
hold down the left mouse button at the top left of the image area that you
wish to shade and drag the box over to the bottom right of the image then
release the mouse button. You will then be taken to the palette requester
documented later.
  To select an area on the screen to shade with user fill simply click the
left mouse button on the picture where you wish to start and proceed to draw
a line around the picture and back to the starting point.(NB do not hold down
the mouse button, simply point and click. Also your outline may consist of
only 100 lines). Next the screen will be cleared and the outline you drew
will be flashing. Click anywhere in the centre of this to fill the area that
you wish to save. You will then be taken to the Palette requester.
	The third pull down menu allows you to select the maximum shades that
you require, the less there are the faster the shading. NB the picture will
always be in 64 colours, you are just selecting the number of desired shades.
	The last pull down menu allows you access to the other programs.
Note any work done is lost on transferr to another program.
  The palette requester is fairly simple to use and has 11 definable palettes
to select from. To change a colour simply select the colour from the lefthand
block and alter the RGB content.
Note the righthand block are the halfbright colours and may not be altered.
The bottom most bar of colours is the spread of colours from 0-49.
To select the colour spread to be used to shade the picture simply click on
a colour from the palette and then click on a position in the spread bar to
place it. The bar is spread from light, on the left, to dark, on the right,
and the colours used in less than a spread of 50 are either the first 10/26.
The Inc and Dec buttons allow you to change palette from one of 10. The Lpal
and Spal buttons allow you to load and save palettes from and to disk. The OK
button continues to the shading pf the picture. Note - although there are 
several palettes the picture is in 64 colours so if you change palette the 
colours on the screen will change to that of the selected palette.

The Process
	1. CLS if picture been loaded previously.

	2. LOAD IFF file.

	3. Select SQUARE FILL or USER FILL from menu.

	4. Select maximium no of colours from menu - 10/26/50

	5. Select area of screen to shade.

	6. Select colours and colour spread.

	7. Click OK to shade picture.

	8. During shading press ESC to stop shading and return to part 3.

	9. program returns to part 3. Either save or shade other area.


2. Halver.
	This program is far simpler to use. Simply load up the picure by
selecting the desired mode from the menu.
The modes are -
		320*256 4 Images
		320*256 4 Optimized Images
		640*512 Optimized Image (4 Priorities)

When the image is halved it is halved in both directions therefore what was
represented by 4 pixels originaly is now only represented by 1 - ie 3/4 of
the image has been lost.
 The first mode produces 4 images on the screen, 1 from each of the 4 pixels
so you may load this up into your art package and use the best one
 The second mode produces four images but the colour chosen for the pixel is
the colour which was dominant in the 4 pixels. The four images created differ
only slightly and only when there is no dominant colour, in which case the
colour selected is the top left colour for the top left image etc.
 The third mode produces only one image in the same way as the second mode
but you must first choose which priority you wish - by trial and error.

 When the picture is finished a file requester comes up allowing you to save
the halved image. During the process ESC will cease the halving process.


IN BOTH OF THE ABOVE PROGRAMS THE SAVE FEATURES ARE DISABLED.

3. Slideshow.
	Upon loading there will be a ? in the path box. Type in the name of
the desired path and directory. To change directory simply click on the
path box and enter in the new path and directory. In the directory box a *
infront of a name indicates a directory. To create the show simply click on
the name of the desired file in the directory box then click on the position
in the slideshow box. To load or save a slideshow select option from menu.
 NB All slideshows are saved under the name "Slideshowdata".

4. Slideview.
	Upon loading this program will load up the slideshowdata file which
must be located in the current directory. If the file isnt found the program
will automatically boot up MegaColour. During the show click mousebutton to
continue.

The last two programs may be freely distributed as they are full versions,
although fairly limited due to being early versions.

Thanks To -
	Francois Lionet for AMOS, Dan Silva & Electronic arts for DPaint IV.
	Alice Cooper, Clanned, Hawkwind, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Osrics,
	Pink Floyd, RDF, Wasp and many more for musical inspiration.
	Jeff Minter for his excellent games, for Trip-a-Tron and most of
	all for his superb light synthesized & spaced-out video Merak.

 If you like the demo or find it usefull please please purchase the full
version, after all £5 isnt much including P&P.
 Also keep a look out for other HunterSoft Demo Disks of games/utilities or
drop us a line to find out more about them. Write to address given above.


HunterSoft.