*** RAINBOW 1.0, a Falcon 030¿ specific true colour art package ***
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This document for RAINBOW 1.0 DEMO is copyright
½ 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 1.0 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 1.0), 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.

The price in UK incl V.A.T.: œ30 (and that includes one free upgrade!).
Any other country: as near œ30 as possible (depending on local taxes etc).

Persons who want to purchase RAINBOW, -contact C-TEK for accurate
local price and information about nearest dealer.

Companies that want to become RAINBOW retailers -contact C-TEK for info.

In both cases, C-TEK can be reached at:

C-TEK                    Telephone/Fax +46 451 24088
P.O. BOX 2056
S-280 22 VITTSJ™
SWEDEN

Send any questions, bug reports etc to:

ADDICTION SOFTWARE HB
P.O. BOX 5012
S-451 05 UDDEVALLA
SWEDEN


We strongly recommend you to read this entire text file as well as
"FACTS.TXT" and "HOTKEYS.TXT" before running RAINBOW.

*** Brief information about RAINBOW 1.0 ***

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RAINBOW version 1.0 was programmed in 100% assembler by
Rasmus S”derberg and Mandus S”derberg.

The example pictures (*.TGA , compressed 16bit targa) was 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.

RAINBOW 1.0 is distributed by C-TEK.
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We would like to thank Musik & Desktop and C-TEK for lending us some
useful hardware, and Rufus S”derberg for his support.

The programmers send their greetings to:
Sven Karlsson, Conny Pettersson, Peter Engstr”m
and to all current/becoming falconeers...
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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" 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 none overscan).
WARNING! 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 1.0 can manage to load *.TIF, *.TGA, *.TPI, *.NEO, *.PI? and *.PC?.
Default is *.*, but if you want to load a specific format you may press
the right button (instead of the left) on "load".

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 (when!) you're going to buy it.
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1994-03-18

ADDICTION SOFTWARE