A FEW INTERESTING (AND NOT SO...) FACTS ABOUT RAINBOW 1.2:
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RAINBOW was first published in December 1993 (v 0.5), which makes it the
first "Falcon only" paint program ever. Version 1.0 was released in Mars
1994, v 1.1 was released in June 1994 and v 1.2 was released in
September 1994.

RAINBOW is the only art package where you can change screen resolution,
monitor type, vertical frequency and overscan from within the program
without losing any work.

RAINBOW offers a unique quickchoice palette which gives you immediate
access to more colours than any other program is capable of. And it
only takes one mouse click to change all colours in the palette.

Another feature you won't find anywhere else is the possibility to
rearrange the user interface completely, at any time without damaging
your work.

RAINBOW comes with a built-in photo studio, and there will be a whole
bunch of additional built-in studios in the next version.
Needless to say, you may switch between the studios without data loss.

You can choose between eight tool types in the picture studio, but since
each one of them has an individual set of modes and effects the actual
number of tools reaches well over 100.

RAINBOW supports the Tabby graphics tablet (our built-in driver uses
less than 1/50 of the memory that the original driver uses), and you
don't need the original supplied driver at all.

There are as much as 48 different levels of magnification (1x-48x),
that work with all tools and operations still available.

RAINBOW is programmed entirely in assembly language, which makes it
fast and reliable.

And speaking of fast... we compared our picture loading with a Falcon
compatible, GEM based, paint program that works (at least for a few
minutes...) when run from a true colour desktop. We won't reveal its
name though... Anyway, here's the results:
Uncompressed Targa: RAINBOW 5 times as fast as the other program.
Compressed TIFF: RAINBOW twice as fast as the other program.
Uncompressed TIFF: RAINBOW 4 times as fast as the other program.


RAINBOW 1.2 is a very powerful art package that offers you quite a lot
in terms of user friendliness, speed, flexibility, value for money etc,
but our intention is to make this program even better.

Of course we will try to include some of YOUR suggestions (send them to
ADDICTION SOFTWARE, address below)...

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


1994-09-28

ADDICTION SOFTWARE