*** RAINBOW 1.2, a Falcon 030¿ specific true colour art package ***
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(This demo version has its save function disabled.)

This document for RAINBOW 1.2 DEMO is copyright
½ 1993, 1994 ADDICTION SOFTWARE HB
and the contents may not be changed, but you are allowed to copy and
distribute it with no restrictions.

The computer software RAINBOW 1.2 DEMO is copyright
½ 1993, 1994 ADDICTION SOFTWARE HB,
but may be copied and distributed by anyone (only this demo version,
not the commercial release of RAINBOW 1.2), as long as none of the
files in this archive is removed or altered.

ADDICTION SOFTWARE HB is not to be held responsible for any damage
to hardware or software or loss of data that may occur by using
RAINBOW.

We strongly recommend you to read this entire text file as well as
"FACTS.TXT" and "HOTKEYS.TXT" and any other text file found in this
directory, before running RAINBOW.


*** Brief information about RAINBOW 1.2 ***

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RAINBOW version 1.2 was programmed in 100% assembler by
Rasmus S”derberg and Mandus S”derberg.

The example pictures (*.TIF , compressed 24bit tiff) were drawn entirely
using RAINBOW by
Rasmus S”derberg.

The manual for RAINBOW version 1.0 was written by
Mandus S”derberg.

The layout of the manual was done by
Berndt J”nsson.

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RAINBOW is an art package especially written for the powerful true colour
mode on the Atari Falcon 030¿. The program is aimed at all graphic artists
who need a quick and effective art package to produce true colour (65536
colours) pictures for games, demos, utilities or private use.

The program runs from either floppy or harddisk, and you don't have to
change colour mode or resolution from the desktop, since RAINBOW
automatically changes that (needless to say it also returns to the old
desktop settings when you quit).

RAINBOW only works with Falcon 030¿.
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Since this is a demo version, you won't get a manual. Therefore you will
have to guess how RAINBOW works (of course you'll get a manual when you buy
the commercial version, where you also can save your pictures...), but at
least we're able to reveal the following "hints":

You click on different functions with the left mouse button in order to
activate them.
But if you want to adjust the function's settings, you'll have to press
the right button. Then a menu box appears where you can make some choices
for that function. A "+" on any of the choice line means that there is a
sub menu box that can be reached by pressing the right button on it.

Choice of colour is made using the "colour bars", the "hotkey palette" or
preferably the "quick choice palette", which can be altered by changing the
colour in any of its "corner boxes".
Note that RAINBOW uses 16 bit true colour (many other programs that work in
true colour use in fact only 15 bits, resulting in half as many shades of
green wich gives you only 32768 colours instead of 65536).

Press the right button on "rgb" or "vga" in order to change the frequency
and overscan (default is no overscan).
WARNING! (in the "vga" menu) Do not set the vertical frequency to 76Hz or
54Hz without knowing for sure that your monitor can handle it (consult your
monitor manual).
If you happen to set a mode that your monitor can't handle, you may restore
the default monitor settings by pressing the key 'help'.

RAINBOW 1.2 can manage to load *.TIF, *.TGA, *.TPI, *.NEO, *.PI? and *.PC?.
Default is *.*, but if you want to load a specific format (i.e. if you want
to load a TGA file called "PICTURE.GFX") you may press the right button
(instead of the left) on "load" to enter the load menu.

If you want to enter the built-in photo studio just click on the yellow
"go to another studio" box and change to "photo studio".
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We hope that this demo version can give you a chance to test RAINBOW before
you decide if you're going to buy it.
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1994-09-28

ADDICTION SOFTWARE