OFFICIAL LEXICOR SOFTWARE PRESS RELEASE 

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LEXICOR SOFTWARE is proud to announce the release of the long 
awaited PRISM PAINT II (ARTIS ANIMATOR). 
 
Check out the *.GIF files which are screen shot's of some of 
Prism Paint II new features. 

 
Date of availability: 03/09/93 
 
Premiere Release by Lexicor Software Corporation in the U.S.A.  
 
In conjunction with Artis Software Austria we combine the powerful 
functionality of Artis into an animation package which is available 
at an upgrade path from people with Prism Paint 1.1 or 1.5B. 
 
Price: Recommended Retail is 189 U$D. Now 30 Day special offer for 
149 U$D. Upgrade path is possible. Please call (510) 848-7621 for 
more details on that. 
 
So how much does Prism Paint II vary from Prism Paint I (and a half). 
Everything! Prism Paint is a complete re-write! It has nothing to do 
with the original Prism Paint (except the name, the PNT file compat. 
and that was about it!). 
 
Special New Features. 
 
Over 113 Functions 
User Programmable Functions 
RUN time file builder (ideal for Phoenix user's to build their animations) 
Modular Design (external programmable port) 
Supports every VDI friendly Graphics Board (e.g. NOVA, CRDOTS, MATRIX) 
in any color's from 2, 16, 256, 32k, 64k upto 24bit. 
Also run's and support's the Falcon in every resolution and color. 
Built in Virtual Screen Manager 
Special 24bit (NOVA STELLUM SPECIAL) air brushes 
Geometrical features 
Pixel Oriented Painting Options 
Very thorough, intuitive and user-friendly interface 
Can read GIF, TGA, IMG, XIMG, DOO, DEGAS, NEOCHROME, PIC, PNT and can  
do much more because of the modular port which allows easy external 
adaptations of new file format's. 
Can write GIF, TGA, IMG and PNT same Modular features. 
Color Printout Capabilities within Prism Paint II. Has a modular port 
to expand it's print out driver capabilities. Very useful is the  
HP Deskjet 550C driver, ideal for low-end color printout. 
Memory Management, you can allocate Prism Paint II a certain amount of 
your System Memory (eg. 80% of RAM). 
Automatic Support of TTRAM. 
Intuitive Magnifying Glass. 
HSV, YMC, and RGB Palette Options 
Extended Fill Patterns  
Extensive Cut and Paste Options  
Complete built in Help File 
Support's Font GDOS, Speedo as well as SIGNUM Font's.
Complete Modular Port
Special NOVA TC brush effects


Plus much, much more and everything you expect from a normal Painting  
Program with extended Animation features. 
  

The new Film File Format is called AFF. It is a resolution independent 
film file format which will run perfectly in 2, 16, 256, 32K, 64k or  
even 24bit and make full use of it. As of now, th AFF film file format 
has the option of Palette-Per-Frame, but it is not supported in Prism 
Paint II because of the speed. 
 
You have the option to select a number of frames and delete them eg. 
I can select frames 5-29 from 100 frames and delete only those selected.  
 
Prism Paint II is a single frame editor, with the ability to not only 
build animations but also to play them. However on the way are AFF Specific 
Players that support the Hardware directly and are therefore much faster. 
 
E.g. in 24bit a true color animation on the NOVA VME can only get a speed 
of 4-8 frames per second in 640x480. Hardly a decent speed. However with the 
specific player this can be boosted up to at least twice the speed, if not 
more. Writing to the Hardware was always a lot faster. 
 
The Modular External Port allow the user or any interested person to write 
his own drivers for a color or b/w printer or to be able to read or write 
new file format's. It is very easy and clearly documented so that this is no
problem at all, for anyone with any knowledge in C. 
 
The programmable drawing tools are set up in such a way that you can use the 
program tools to make your own new one. Eg. you can echo, or make the image 
move circular etc. with the programmable drawing tools.  
 
Prism Paint II is the next step in our animation. It is the final and
last addition. Once you have relativity and phoenix, and now prism paint II 
to load and build animations you are basically complete. Prism Paint II 
is the final building block. However, as you can see, Prism Paint II is 
far, far more than just the regular paint or animation program. In it's 
wealth of functions and ease of use, you will see that this is most 
likely one of the most powerful painting and animation tools around for 
this price. 
 

For more information contact Lexicor Software Corporation
1726 Franzisko Street, CA 94703, Berkeley 
(510) 848-7621  
(510) 848-7613