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R/+COLLE1
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.
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Filename: | R/+COLLE1 |
Read OK: | ✔ |
File size: | 16CC bytes |
Load address: | 2B204556 |
Exec address: | 4C4C4F43 |
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COLLECTIONS OF CLIPART Supplier: www.8bs.com All Disks Available on 3.5"/5.25" (ADFS, CDFS, DFS) Reviewed by (the) Dave in EUG 56 UNLIKE with the PC, where it has now become so easy to manipulate photo- graphs, graphics and images that only a bare minimum of skill is needed, producing a good picture on the BBC or Electron takes lots of time and lots of patience. It also takes either considerable skill at programming or a software package allowing you to draw on screen. The choice, moreso for Elk users than BBC ones, is rather limited in even acquiring the latter tool. If you're very lucky, you'll pick up a boxed and complete copy of AMX ART and a nice analogue mouse. But more likely, you'll find a copied disk in an old box acquired elsewhere, have no instructions for the program that's on it and find the whole process too daunting to begin. Either that, or you'll be faced with a package which only accepts KEYBOARD input such as EUG's own DIAGRAM (EUG #15), Impact's THE ART STUDIO or - horror of horrors! - the SKETCH program on the Introductory Cassette! Even if you persevere, you'll then find the machines simply aren't powerful enough to provide the features we've come to expect. There cer- tainly won't be an Undo facility - make a mistake with the Fill command and you'll have to painstakingly reconstruct your original. And magnify- ing particular areas of screen? A few pixels at most IF you're lucky! Conversely, it's this exorbitant amount of hassle which can provoke a quite intriguing amount of delight if a very impressive picture appears on your monitor while it's connected to a Beeb. Look no further than ELECTRON USER and EUG reviews and letters that praise professional load- ing (or opening) screens for proof. It's the "How did he DO that?!" factor that the 8 Bit pictures provoke - and that the PC never will - that ensures they will be popular for quite a few years yet. There are more pictures out there (sometimes incorrectly labelled as "Clipart"!) than you might imagine, safely stowed in the 8 BIT SOFTWARE archives. Recently a batch arrived at EUG HQ and it would not be an exaggeration to call some of them unbelievably fantastic. Especially when you put them into the context described above. But they are as in- teresting from a historical point of view, in the same way that compar- ing today's computing magazines with those of ten years ago yields much reminiscing and merriment. This review gives the lowdown on just nine of the disks available for download at www.8bs.com. Running through it, unfortunately is a lack of reliable copyright information. Many pictures crop up on different disks (snatched from the official ones) and almost all are 'unsigned'; their origins as big a mystery as their artists. The biggest offenders 'snatch' from the ACORN USER GALLERY range of disks. The ACORN USER magazine thought a lot more of the "Clipart Scene" than its contemporaries; it published at least two full DFS disks of images in its lifetime, as well as showcasing a new picture each issue. Virtually all the pictures gracing them are assured to be colourful and exciting. The 8BS library (and EUG) can supply the GALLERY disks #1 and #2. There may have been more and it may be the case that images from subsequent GALLERY disks were 'snatched' onto the disks reviewed below. In the main, these other disks are a gamble. Some are dire, some mix crud with crowd-pleasers and gems like the JOSEPH LAVERY COLLECTION stand head and shoulders above even ACORN USER. But this is the Public Domain world in general, isn't it? Anyway, having established that we "Wow!" only if we appreciate the amount of time the artist must have worked to bring the picture to our Beeb screen, disks TYB-10, TYB-18, TYB-19 and TYB-21 demonstrate the opposite effect. Respectively, these disks are archived as piccies of POPSTARS, THE WORLD, SPACE and THE TOWER OF LONDON. They are digitised pictures grabbed from a video tape with hardware known as a Digitiser. This is an area where the PC triumphs over many rival computers. Even 16 bit computers such as the Amiga 500 could never 'grab' pictures from external sources with the requisite degree of quality. On 8 bit, the re- sults really are appalling, akin to watching a still picture on your TV without an aereal connected. Why the BBC Digitiser was once a revolution is understandable but just one digitised picture incorporated in a slideshow inevitably shows not only the dated nature of the machine but also that the 'artist' took no time in presenting something original. (Even ACORN USER GALLERY disks suffer from this drawback!) To this end, a slideshow of them is out of the question. Coming off only fractionally better is TYB-41-1, a slideshow of pic- tures digitised from the Archimedes. These have been ported down to Mode 0 on the BBC so they are of a reasonably high quality, albeit in black and white, but again fail to "Wow!" After all, quite apart from the lack of time it took their author to produce them (apart from connecting up the two machines), you glean the perception that they would be spectac- ular ON an Archimedes. So why look at them on a Beeb? TYB-11 mixes digitised pictures with both freehand and MANDELBROT AND JULIA designs. MAJ was once a professional software package (It's now PD!) for designing crazy kaliedoscope-style designs. Output from it, when you can't manipulate the image, rather defeats the purpose so wait- ing for five images in turn to load (slowly!) after five digitised pics (as slowly!) have annoyed you is frustrating. Fortunately, there are six fair freehand drawings to help quell the despair... This review is continued in R.+COLLE2. First published EUG #56.
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