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This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
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| Filename: | Regulars/StarInfo/Salt/!SpriteFS/!Help |
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| File size: | 1232 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
!SpriteFS 2.03
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By Darren Salt
RISC PC compatible
!SpriteFS is a pseudo-!Paint program which allows you to view the sprites
in the system and WIMP sprite areas as if they were in !Paint windows.
The system sprites can be viewed by clicking Select on the SpriteFS icon;
the WIMP sprites can be viewed by clicking Adjust.
You can load sprite files by dragging them to either the system sprites
window or the WIMP sprites window. The sprites are merged with the
appropriate sprite area; extra memory is claimed if required.
Individual sprites, or the whole of each sprite area, can be saved.
The windows can, of course, be resized, and do their best to act like
!Paint sprite file windows.
*** NEW to v2.03
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Automatic left-hand wastage removal! Wastage may be introduced using
Paint's flip and adjust size options - see TechForum (Acorn Computing, Nov
94) for more details.
The Main Menu
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Misc � submenu 'Misc'
Display � submenu 'Display'
Save � save box for all sprites in the system sprite area
Sprite '<name>' � submenu 'Sprite'
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Remove wastage removes left-hand wastage from sprites
Update redraws the sprite area window
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Clear [system area only] clears the sprite area (requires
confirmation if sprites exist)
Misc
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Info � information window, as is standard
Sprites � information on the sprite area: size, amount used, number of
sprites
Display
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Drawing and name as in !Paint
Full info as in !Paint
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Use desktop colours as in !Paint
Sprite '<name>' - this sprite was under the pointer when Menu was clicked
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Copy � [system area only] enter the name of the copy of sprite '<name>'
Rename � [system area only] enter the new name for sprite '<name>'
Delete deletes sprite '<name>'
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Save � save box for sprite '<name>'
Info � information on sprite '<name>': size, width, height, mode,
whether it has a mask or palette, resolution, bits per pixel
The Icon Menu
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Info � information window, as is standard
Quit quits !SpriteFS
Notes
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The 'Save' option will be greyed out if there are no sprites to save; the
'Sprite ...' option and its submenu will be greyed out if there was no sprite
under the pointer when Menu was clicked.
If at all possible, transferring data to or from another application makes
use of memory transfer, thus avoiding scrap files.
!SpriteFS will try to repair damage to the sprite area should it find any.
However, it cannot deal with bad sprites - it only checks the size of the
area, the pointers to the first sprite and free space, the number of sprites,
and the size of each sprite (used to find the next). You will be told of any
damage that can be dealt with.
If a sprite name is corrupted, that sprite cannot be deleted, saved or
renamed, and will show up as 'Bad sprite' in the sprite window. In this
situation, you should save all the sprites that can be saved (if they aren't
already), preferably to !Paint, making a single sprite file, then you should
clear the sprite area and reload the sprites, along with any others which are
needed.
RISC PC compatibility
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!SpriteFS will attempt to display 'deep' sprites with up to 256 colours on
all RISC OS computers. To indicate that they are 'deep' sprites, their names
are displayed in blue.
Unless running on a RISC PC, no attempt is made to display new format
sprites with masks (unless the sprite itself is 1bpp).
As yet, it has only been tried with 15- and 32-bit colour sprites; it will
display these correctly on a RISC PC, but will not even attempt to display
them on older machines.
Credits
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Morley Electronics for visiting the 1994 IT exhibition at Northumberland
College (in Ashington, for those who don't know), thus giving me the chance
to gather this information and use it!
Dominic Symes (of Zap fame) for prompting me to include the WIMP sprite
pool - something which had crossed my mind, but failed to stay there.
Also a small credit to Michael Rozdoba for the info on 'deep' sprites
(Acorn Answers, Archimedes World, June 1995)
You thought I was going to say "Archimedes" there, didn't you?
Contact
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Money, bug reports, money, ideas for improvement, and money to:
Darren Salt,
17, Allendale Crescent, Wansbeck Estate, Stakeford, Northumberland NE62 5YG
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