Disketten-Serie: Floppyshop Art

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GIF 2 RAW
Converts GIF pictures (any size) to QRT RAW format so you can load them into PhotoChrome (on ART.3303C) or any other program that uses RAW.
GIF to H-P DeskJet 550C
Prints GIF pictures to the HP Deskjet 550C. The GIF is printed out in up to 256 colours and is very high quality, especially if printed on HP's glossy paper. A couple of example GIFs are provided.
Profi Painter ST
A 1987 package which is rather like an updated GemPaint, but with options to load or create 320x 400 (two screen high) pictures. All the usual tools are there to experiment with. It saves PI? and DOODLE formats and works in all 3 resolutions.
Extend PI1-3
At long last an answer to why DPaint ST has trouble with some Degas PI1s. It seems they should 32066 bytes and not 32034! This program puts it right.
Spectrum 512 Picture Printer
At long last, a program which prints Spectrum 512 pictures. It outputs to 9 pin or 24 pin printers. The picture must be in SPU format (use SPC2SPU on ART.3139).
Calamus->Cyber
An ACC which converts Calamus fonts so they can be used in CyberSculpt and CAD 3D.
Color Dump
This program is designed to replace the built in graphics dump routine (accessed by ALT/HELP) of the ATARI ST computers. It produces a configurable 9 or 24 pin color screen dump from within any program run on the machine. The only exceptions to this are applications that entirely steal keyboard input.
Outliner
Outlines Degas pictures with some curious effects.
Speed of Light 2.5
Speed Of Light is a comprehensive image processor/viewer with many advanced and highly configurable features. It can display more colors and shades on a standard ST than usual and is the FASTEST GIF decompressor on the ST. Loads .GIF, .JPG, .PI?, .PC?, .PNT, .IMG and saves .GIF, Degas, .PNT, GEM (X)Image.

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Paintpot
Originally a commercial release, now re-released as Shareware. It runs in all 3 resolutions and loads and saves in Degas format. Features include object create, pie/bar chart create, text import plus all the usual drawing and painting tools. It also has a very unusual RGB colour edit operation. Online help is available to guide you through the program's features. IMG files can be loaded if running in high res. It will also attempt to load any picture file it's not sure of (very hit and miss).

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Fractal Playtime
View a fractal, select an area and recalculate it to make it prettier! Plenty of examples are supplied on disk. Docs in LaTex and DVI format.
ST_PIC 1.0
A simple picture converter which only converts to mono files. It runs in mono or colour and loads Degas, Doodle, Stad, Mac, Neo, Art Director, TIF, IMG and GEM metafiles. It converts them to mono TIF, IMG or PI3 only. ST PIC has dithering controls and can scroll around larger than normal pictures.
PicSwitch 1.01
Very good graphics converter program that can read images in many formats. Printing on dot matrix printers and HP Laserjet. With dithering etc.
JCVIEW v2.1
An art viewer and clip manipulator. It has quite an extensive file support and lots of special effects.
The Palette Extender (24 Bits)
A small program that displays QRT (or MTV) Raytrace RAW format pictures. It's rather similar to Photochrome, except it only runs at 60Hz.

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JPEG Software 6b
A method of picture compression used on the PC. It is highly compacted but does result in a certain amount of loss of image quality. Includes programs CJPEG, DJPEG, JPEGTRAN.
Graustufenemulator (Grayscaler)
April fools: Program pretends to emulate a grayscale display.
Zonk
"Zonk makes psychedelic patterns to stare at when you're too zonked for anything else". It can grab screens, play bitmaps over them, freak about with the colours and cycle them, amongst other things.

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Polyfilm
A CAD 3D type program that generates animations like small films. It is both well written and well documented. One of its more impressive features is that the preview rotates happen in real time! There are so many features to this program that it is impossible to go into here. It is quite impressive and worth a look at. Comes complete with examples and its own film file viewer. If you're into 3D then this is for you! Falcon compatible.

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Mike's Fill Editor

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View ST/TT 1.32
Allows you to view TGA, RAW, IMG, XIMG, IFF (including HAM), GIF 87a, SPC, SPU, PI?, PC?, NEO, ART or DOO pictures quickly and easily on an ST or TT. The colours are reduced to fit those of the available resolution if appropriate. The images can also be saved out in their converted state in Degas or QRT format.
MDL 1.0
Allows you to run type 1 and 2, DL animations files on mono displays. I'm not sure which programs produce DL files, but full C source for ST and Unix systems is included.
Pic-Mon 1.1
If you are in a package which will not allow you to load in a particular format of picture, this program may be what you need. It supports NEO and Degas (PI? and PC?) formats and allows pictures to be loaded into a different resolution or into a package which does not support the relevant format (e.g. compressed Degas files). You can also double-click any Degas or Neo file of any resolution and show or print it from the Desktop.
Fractgen 1.0
Generates fractal graphics using a number of selected algorithms applied to any of the six available fractal types. You can zoom in to an almost infinite degree. It recalculates the zoomed area by representing it in a blockish fashion like an art package does, then smoothing it off using your chosen algorithm. The results are very detailed and once again the only criticism is the inability to save in a sensible format. A maths coprocessor can be used to speed things up even further.
Chaos Calc 2.35
A rather fast Mandelbrot generator. This one lets you zoom almost into infinity. Although CC2 is powerful as it stands, registered users get a number of extras. The program is GEM based and the instructions are very straightforward. A dozen pre-defined Mandelbrot sets are included on disk.
WATCH-IT 1.0A
WATCH-IT is a picture viewer for Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon030 computers. It was planned as a viewer for the new Falcon computer only, supporting the 256-colour-resolution and the truecolour-resolution, but as it is a plain GEM-program, you can also start it on the "old" Ataris as well. WATCH-IT runs on all memory-configurations, but 512 KByte may be too small for big pictures.
A Fractal Journey into Outer Space
This fractal generator supports both Mandelbrot and Julia sets. It creates a full screen fractal in just a few seconds and is capable of generating animations. 24-bit true colour RAW files can be created. These take ages to create and are written to disk since your ST can't display them. They are intended for use with PhotoChrome on ART.3303.

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Kandinsky 1.73 (English)
Kandinsky is a vector-oriented drawing program with all the usual features like box, round box, circle, elipse, line, polygon, arc and bezier curves are there. The control offered over bezier curves is second to none. Text input is supported from 8 point to 20 point using the system font. SpeedoGDOS is supported if installed. The package includes vector fonts in BGI format and these can be scaled to any size. Greyscales and shadowing can be applied to objects and these can be moved, re- sized, grouped, ungrouped, mirrored and rotated as required. Kandinsky is fully MultiTOS compatible and the number of windows available is limited only by available memory. It loads and saves GEM metafiles as well as allowing data to be exchanged between programs using the GEM clipboard.

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Kandinsky 2.51 (English)
Kandinsky is a vector-oriented drawing program with all the usual features like box, round box, circle, elipse, line, polygon, arc and bezier curves are there. The control offered over bezier curves is second to none. Text input is supported from 8 point to 20 point using the system font. SpeedoGDOS is supported if installed. The package includes vector fonts in BGI format and these can be scaled to any size. Greyscales and shadowing can be applied to objects and these can be moved, re- sized, grouped, ungrouped, mirrored and rotated as required. Kandinsky is fully MultiTOS compatible and the number of windows available is limited only by available memory. It loads and saves GEM metafiles as well as allowing data to be exchanged between programs using the GEM clipboard.

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GIP - Greyscale Image Processor 1.0
A comprehensive Shareware image processing program which is ideal for manipulating black and white or colour digitised or scanned images. There is an extensive range of special effects and filters. Each loaded picture is converted into a 256 level image, colour reduced if appropriate, and displayed in the appropiate current resolution. GIP supports the loading of TIFF, GIF, PCX, Degas, IMG (mono and colour) and AIM. It saves in TIFF or IMG formats. On-line help is available within the program. Printing is supported for HP Laserjet/Deskjet and Postscript printers only. GIP runs in all resolutions on the ST/E, TT and Falcon.

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MiniDraft 1.10
Despite the name, this is a fairly comprehensive drafting program with all the basic requirements. There's some excellent example files on disk to get you started too.
GTC74
'GIF, TARGA and Co' - An image manipulation program. You can resize, rescale, convert 24 bit to 8 bit and vice versa, there's even a 'special' Photochrome-like display for viewing big pictures in sections. SPC, SPU are also supported and its fairly economical on memory usage.
Sprite Works 1.0
A simple but very useful sprite designer for creating frame by frame sprites. It is specifically designed with programmers in mind and help is given for including your saved work in your own GFA or assembler programs. It handles both 16 and 32 pixel wide sprites and claims to offer the ease GFA users the ease of use of GFA, with the sprite control of STOS.
Fix-A-GIF
As its name suggests, this program can examine and rectify any 'non standard' GIF file. It even checks for text info and multi- GIF picture files.

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Happy Paint 1.2e
A Shareware mono paint program with all the usual tools and a few extras thrown in. One of its unique features is the ability to load ASCII text for titling your own pictures. Happy Paint uses its own font format but a conversion program is supplied which adapts Signum fonts for use with the program. A number of fonts are supplied on disk, ready for use. File support is PIC (32k raw screen data), PAK (it's own format NOT to be confused with PAC format) and Degas PI3. It also loads its own BLK and OBJ formats which are essentially blocks of screen data and not to be confused with object oriented graphics. Numerous pictures are also supplied. 9-pin Epson and 24-pin NEC printers are supported.

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PaintShop+ v2.03
It loads files in Degas, NEO, Art Director, IMG, STAD, Doodle and Atari Clipboard formats as well as its own and saves in PIC format. The usual tools and effects (like solarize) are present as well as 'bend' and 'cylinder'. Pictures bigger than screen are loadable, although they will be cropped. An archiving facility allows up to 30 pictures to be stored in a special archive file. These may be loaded directly into Paintshop + or viewed from within the archive. If GDOS is loaded, the fonts specified in the ASSIGN.SYS file will be available within Paintshop +. Signum fonts and its own font format (three supplied on disk) are also supported. The most important feature with regard to fonts is support for Borland's BGI vector fonts which can be used at any size or any angle. A 'GPL' editor is included which allows small programs to be run from within Paintshop, generating graphic images. Up to three GPL's can be in memory at any time.

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ESCAD
A professional CAD/CAM package. There are a number of the more advanced features disabled in this Shareware version. These are fully operational in the registered version. A converter program is included so that you can convert DFX files used by AutoCAD/AutoSketch (on the PC) into ESCAD format and vice versa.
The Ancient Art of ASCII 1.0
The Ancient Art of ASCII is a program that will convert Degas *.PI3 pictures to ASCII text screens (ASCII ART). When these screens are printed, they really do look like the original picture.
McView 1.2
Similar to McPic. You can view Neochrome, Degas, Spectrum 512 and Overscan pictures, and print them to a 9-pin or 24-pin Epson compatible printer.
DeagaMono 1.0
Similar to Deagaview/Deagaprint, but combined in one program. This version is high res only and only prints or displays PI3 pictures.
McPic 1.3
Shareware program which lets you view, print and convert between Neochrome and Degas files. You can also view Spectrum 512-colour and fullscreen overscan graphics.
Degaview/Degaprint 1.3
Two shareware programs to view and print Degas files. Runs in any resolution, but the Degas files must be uncompressed.

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Brainstorm FLI/FLC Movie Player
An application/accessory able to play any FLI/FLC files. Its main features are:
- GEM program, TOS/MultiTOS compatible.
- Runs in any Atari standard resolution.
- AES colors friendly (uses standard AES palette).
- Movies can be resized on the fly.

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POV (Persistence of Vision) 2.2 (ST & TT version)
A reliable stable followup to POV 2.2 has finally arrived on the Atari thanks to Doug Little's porting of the PC sources. This latest version is downwardly compatible with POV 2.2 but with dozens of new features and bug fixes. Amongst the new features is the ability to render a screen preview when running on a Falcon. Another major improvement is the incorporation of the faster routines from FTPOV. Like v2.2, this version features hundreds of scenes for you to render yourself, all grouped according to your level of experience. The on-disk manual's huge, running to over 800K and is very well written, starting out with an easy to understand introduction to ray tracing, then moving progressively to the more advanced stuff. It also includes several detailed tutorials, all aimed at different ability levels.

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POV (Persistence of Vision) 2.2 (ST & TT version)
A reliable stable followup to POV 2.2 has finally arrived on the Atari thanks to Doug Little's porting of the PC sources. This latest version is downwardly compatible with POV 2.2 but with dozens of new features and bug fixes. Amongst the new features is the ability to render a screen preview when running on a Falcon. Another major improvement is the incorporation of the faster routines from FTPOV. Like v2.2, this version features hundreds of scenes for you to render yourself, all grouped according to your level of experience. The on-disk manual's huge, running to over 800K and is very well written, starting out with an easy to understand introduction to ray tracing, then moving progressively to the more advanced stuff. It also includes several detailed tutorials, all aimed at different ability levels.

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POV (Persistence of Vision) 2.2 (ST & TT version)
A reliable stable followup to POV 2.2 has finally arrived on the Atari thanks to Doug Little's porting of the PC sources. This latest version is downwardly compatible with POV 2.2 but with dozens of new features and bug fixes. Amongst the new features is the ability to render a screen preview when running on a Falcon. Another major improvement is the incorporation of the faster routines from FTPOV. Like v2.2, this version features hundreds of scenes for you to render yourself, all grouped according to your level of experience. The on-disk manual's huge, running to over 800K and is very well written, starting out with an easy to understand introduction to ray tracing, then moving progressively to the more advanced stuff. It also includes several detailed tutorials, all aimed at different ability levels.

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Calamus->CAD3D
An accessory to convert Calamus fonts into a form suitable for use with CAD3D.
Pixpro II
Improves the contrast on colour pictures created using video digitisers so they can be used as clip art. Includes source in GFA Basic.
Calamus->Cyber
An ACC which converts Calamus fonts so they can be used in CyberSculpt and CAD 3D.
XPM Converter
Converts XPM (X PixMap) files from Windows on the PC, into NEO files and vice versa.
Morph
Yes morphing on the ST is possible! This is an interesting program which is capable of mapping points on one image onto another. Load up the two supplied pictures (or use your own) and select how many in between frames are to be generated. The in between frames showing the first picture gradually transforming into the second, are saved to disk. These may then be combined into an animation using Cyber Paint or Animtool on ART.72.
Rayshade 3.0
A raytracing program which is similar in concept to POV Raytrace, QRT Raytrace and DKB Raytrace. It reads a multiline ASCII file describing the scene to be rendered and produces a 'UTAH RASTER' image. The primitives are box, cone, cylinder etc. The program handles 24 bit colour but like other similar offerings, a scene takes hours to render.
RSFLIP 1.1
This is a real oddity! It is a computer version of the flip books you used to get as a child. A flip book animation is produced on a 40 x 40 grid with facilities for inverting, rotating moving and copying. A sample demo is supplied on disk.

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Psycho-Script
A combination of sound, script and psychedelic patterns in a slideshow. The manual on disk gives full instructions for running the demo. Needless to say, users can make their own slideshows. The Midi music output is only operational on the registered version.
Keftal 24
Calculates the degradation of 16 million colours as RGB composition of graphics defined as percentages and angles of degradation. If that sounds confusing, put simply, this program allows you to create keftale graphics (plasma-like effects) like those on the Amiga. Although the graphics are in colour, Keftal itself requires a minimum resolution of 640x400 (on an ST this means high res or a graphics card). The end result is saved out as a Targa
Dr. Bob's MultiViewer Graphics
Allows you to view IMG, WAC, MAC, PI3, PC3 and NEO pictures on a mono monitor or PI1 and PC1 in medium res. Images may be rotated, copied, pasted and increased or decreased in size. It has good printer support, allowing you to alter the dpi setting to suit. It is also possible to edit your graphics and save them to disk.

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Surf 3D 3.1
A 3D graph viewer. Displays mathematical functions as an isometric wireframe graph in a GEM window. Simple, but pretty and effective.
Labo 7.5
Allows you to convert images between Degas, NEO, Crack Art, TNY and PAL formats or view them on screen. Low res only.
FracTGA 1.01
Fractal generator using the Julia set. Saves graphics in Targa format and at resolutions of up to 2048x2048 pixels. Works under MiNT and MultiTOS.
Eclipse
A powerful image processing package. It loads images in RAW, TGA, IFF, SPU, Degas, GIF, TIFF and BMP formats, saving them in RAW, TGA, IFF, BMP and TIFF formats. The features include 24 different processing filters (including sharpen, blur, emboss, smooth and laplace), RGB colour adjustment, gamma correction, convert to greyscale, rotate image, bend, squeeze, zigzag and mirror. In addition, images may be mapped onto spheres, pyramids or diamonds and cutting and pasting of blocks between buffers is also supported. Eclipse runs in any resolution on the ST/E, TT and Falcon. The special effects menu and the user guide are reserved for registered users.

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VM Dither
Uses dithering to convert a 16 grey level .VID or .FLM sequence created by Video Master on the STE or Falcon so that it looks almost as good on an ST(FM). An example VID file converted with this program is included on disk.
SpriteFX
A programmer's utility which allows you to import Degas or NEO pictures, cut out the relevant sprites from them and store them in a sprite bank. The sprite bank can hold up to 100 sprites and these can be built up into sequences, each containing up to 100 frames. Up to 100 sequences can be combined together to create lengthy animations. The sprites can range in size from 16x1 to 64x64 pixels in size and the program allows you to define the paths which you want your animations to follow. The end result can then be saved out in binary, assembler or Basic data statements for incorporation into your own programs. The program has a lengthy doc file and includes an on-line help facility. Please note that this is not a sprite designer. You will need an art package to create the initial graphics.
GENART V1.0
A random pattern generator. It generates four random patterns and you choose which one you like. It is used as the basis for the next four or drawn full screen size. Patterns can be merged or mutated and there's a couple of user settings which may be altered too.
ST2NIM
This program converts Degas low res screens into Nimbus PCX files. A number of example Nimbus PCX files are included on disk.
NIM2ST V1.2
Converts PCX files created on the Nimbus version of PC Paintbrush into Degas format. Nimbus PCX files are non- standard and although recognised as ordinary PCX's by most conversion utilities, this is the only program known to convert them correctly.

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MultiCAD 1.30
MultiCAD is suitable for a variety of uses including architecture, chemistry, engineering and PCB design. Libraries of architectural, electrical and mechanical shapes are included with the package as well as primitives of common shapes. It makes use of a a massive 32,768 x 32,768 pixel screen and allows you to zoom in and out easily. What's more, the entire drawing can be printed out in sections ready to paste together. The program is capable of creating multi-layer drawings and will import and export CADja files. This version restricts the size of your drawings to 5K and brings up nagging messages frequently. Apart from that, it's a complete implementation.

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Speed of Light 3.8
Speed Of Light is a comprehensive image processor/viewer with many advanced and highly configurable features. It can display more colors and shades on a standard ST than usual and is the FASTEST GIF decompressor on the ST. Loads .GIF, .JPG, .PI?, .PC?, .PNT, .IMG and saves .GIF, Degas, .PNT, GEM (X)Image.
STOS Degas and Neochrome Slide Show
A slideshow for displaying Degas and NEO pictures written with STOS Basic. As well as showing the pictures, a number of different effects are used when displaying them. In addition, the pictures can be made memory resident so that you can run a slideshow in a shop window without having to worry about the disk getting stolen! Some example pictures and full source code are included.

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Arrow 1.1
Raytracer. A hot topic on the ATARI. With ARROW, the way into three-dimensional space is open. Objects can be easily designed in the comfortable 3D editor, scenes can be put together, light sources can be defined and then transformed into an image in 24-bit quality with the raytracer. The screen display is converted into the respective existing color resolution, whether 256, 16 colors or monochrome. 3D editor: 1-sided, 4-sided and vanishing point display, predefined figures (spheres, ellipses, polygon and rotation bodies); surfaces: diffuse, specular, luminous. The raytracer generates images in IMG, TIFF, IFF, BMP format, can independently swap to disk/hard drive in case of memory shortage, works in the background with MultiTOS and also supports an existing FPU.

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Movie Master
Originally commercial and now released as Shareware, this package allows you to make your own 'movies from backdrops of your choice, using sprites cut from your own pictures. No knowlege of programming is required in order to use Sprite Master, as everything is done using simple mouse clicks. More advanced animations can be created using sprite sequences imported from Soft Bits' Sprite Master Gold, which is available to registered users. Unlike most animation programs, Movie Master even lets you add sound to your 'films'. Several example movies and sample graphics are included on disk.

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IPF Creator and Viewer
IPF format is essentially a 16 colour conversion of extended Spectrum 512 (SPX) format. The benefits are that you use up less disk space and memory and the pictures are still very impressive. A number of example pictures along with full STOS source code is provided on disk.
Easy POV 1.6
A nice easy to use GEM based front end for POV 1 & POV 2. Everything is set using the mouse and pop-up menus.
STIS 2.0
Allows you to create 3D images from True Paint/Prism Paint pictures. These can then be viewed on your screen without special glasses. The images take longer for some people to see than others and it can be quite difficult to focus on your first picture correctly. However, if you can successfully see one, the rest will come naturally. Several example images are included on disk and print out is supported to Epson compatibles. STIS is no longer restricted to working with 16 colour pictures and runs on any ST, STE, TT or Falcon.

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Kozmic 4
Kozmic is a psychedelic pattern generator with full user control over the patterns generated. As well as creating the patterns, you can zoom, mirror, distort, merge two screens, merge bitplanes and much more. Many of these are accompanied by equally unusual sampled sound effects. There's extensive palette control and a built in slideshow feature too. This latest version has on-line help and if you have an STE and more than 1 Meg of memory, you'll get stereo sound samples as well as the mono ones. Kozmic's two main claims to fame are that graphics created by it were used by the techno-rock group Tranceport on the cover of their CD Tranceglobal and Kozmic graphics were used in a video by a Belgian rock band which was shown on MTV!

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Zonk 1.02
"Zonk makes psychedelic patterns to stare at when you're too zonked for anything else". It can grab screens, play bitmaps over them, freak about with the colours and cycle them, amongst other things.

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Kozmic 4 (Mega ST)
Kozmic is a psychedelic pattern generator with full user control over the patterns generated. As well as creating the patterns, you can zoom, mirror, distort, merge two screens, merge bitplanes and much more. Many of these are accompanied by equally unusual sampled sound effects. There's extensive palette control and a built in slideshow feature too. This latest version has on-line help and if you have an STE and more than 1 Meg of memory, you'll get stereo sound samples as well as the mono ones. Kozmic's two main claims to fame are that graphics created by it were used by the techno-rock group Tranceport on the cover of their CD Tranceglobal and Kozmic graphics were used in a video by a Belgian rock band which was shown on MTV!
Kozmic 4 (Source code)
Kozmic is a psychedelic pattern generator with full user control over the patterns generated. As well as creating the patterns, you can zoom, mirror, distort, merge two screens, merge bitplanes and much more. Many of these are accompanied by equally unusual sampled sound effects. There's extensive palette control and a built in slideshow feature too. This latest version has on-line help and if you have an STE and more than 1 Meg of memory, you'll get stereo sound samples as well as the mono ones. Kozmic's two main claims to fame are that graphics created by it were used by the techno-rock group Tranceport on the cover of their CD Tranceglobal and Kozmic graphics were used in a video by a Belgian rock band which was shown on MTV!

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The Sprites Portfolio 2.0
This disk contains over 600 individual sprites for use in your own games. The artwork is truly outstanding and on a par with that used in the top ST arcade games. Screens are in Degas PI1 format so they can be used easily.

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Splash
An art package for young children (age 3 to 10). Being icon driven, it is extremely easy to use. All the usual functions such as draw, line, fill, palette, disk, cycle, etc. are available. Ideal as an introduction to computer art.
Sprite Master
A professional Sprite editing program which will output source code which can be incorporated into most programming languages. Sprite sizes can be user defined and stacked together to create multi sized output files. The disk contains the editor program, a short demo game, example sprites and a NEO to Sprite Master conversion kit.

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Laser Design Pro 1.0
Pixel drawing program that leaves nothing to be desired. With 3D part - extensive drawing functions - numerous image and block formats etc. GDOS and Signum! fonts. Only works in ST-high! Supports almost all common printers: 9-/24-needles, ink and laser printers.
Looker
Described as an image processing program, it is primarily concerned with the conversion of colour images to monochrome or greys by use of dithering and half-toning, both of which allow extensive user control over their parameters. You can lighten or darken a picture, negate it or access the colour values to alter the converted image. Looker loads PI1, PI3 and DTH formats and saves as PI3 and DTH. Looker is well documented but entirely command driven, therefore not really user friendly.
Polystar (Mono)
Originally designed to create multi-pointed stars for DTP work, Polystar has evolved into a drawing program in its own right. It offers such unusual tools as star, petals and spiral as well as implementing many of the usual ones. Polystar is a fun program to use, offering several new features over those expected from this type of package. It loads and saves Degas format pictures.
Rotation 1.0
This program was inspired by EZ Draw and other 'object-oriented' programs that don't let you rotate objects in any increment other than 90 degrees. With Rotation, you can draw squares and polygons and rotate them in any increment up to 180 degrees, in any direction and about any center.
DRAW 0.2
A monochrome drawing program which supports the loading and saving of IMG, PI3, PC3, DOO and BLK files and uses GDOS fonts if GDOS is loaded. It has all the usual tools like box, line, circle, polygon, fill, text, spray and zoom as well as a few new ones. Mosaic can produce interesting effects! The bezier curve tool is particularly well implemented.

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Rotation 1.0
This program was inspired by EZ Draw and other 'object-oriented' programs that don't let you rotate objects in any increment other than 90 degrees. With Rotation, you can draw squares and polygons and rotate them in any increment up to 180 degrees, in any direction and about any center.
Showtime (Greenwood)
A slideshow with a difference. It displays all pictures in overscan mode (i.e. no borders). The program will display all PI1 and NEO files in the root directory of any specified drive and you can select the wait time between the loading of each picture.
Pulser
A drawing package with a difference. It allows you to create the illusion of movement by clever use of colour cycling. Although this in itself is not a new concept, what makes Pulser unique is that you can have colour cycling switched on whilst drawing and this applies not only to freehand drawing but to shapes as well. In addition, you can specify the direction and speed of the cycling. A number of standard tools such as freehand, circle, box, lines and rays are also included. Pulser allows you to load and save Degas images as well as its own format (which stores all the colour cycling info). Several example pictures are supplied on disk.

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Polystar (Color)
Originally designed to create multi-pointed stars for DTP work, Polystar has evolved into a drawing program in its own right. It offers such unusual tools as star, petals and spiral as well as implementing many of the usual ones. Polystar is a fun program to use, offering several new features over those expected from this type of package. It loads and saves Degas format pictures.
Specshow
A small program which can be called up by STOS Basic in order to let you display Spectrum 512 pictures (in full colour) within your own STOS Basic programs. Instructions are given and a sample .BAS file and SPC picture is also included.
Neodesk Patterns
A collection of patterns suitable for use to create a Desktop backdrop for NEODesk 4, Deskpic and similar programs. Some are in 256 colours and others in High Colour format.
Spectra
An image processing program. It allows you to load up a RAW, TGA or POV RAW 24-bit True Colour picture and display it using 64 greyscales on an STE or 32 on an STFM. You can then lighten, darken, dither, enlarge, reduce or negate your picture. In addition, you can also carry out individual pixel editing in zoom mode. All processes may be applied to the entire picture or to user defined areas. What's more, although the picture has been colour reduced for display purposes, the 'real' picture in memory has not.

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Imagelab (English) 2.1
A Freeware greyscale image processing package with a few nice touches. Features include scaling, contrast/brightness adjust, linear distribution, equal distribution, median filter, dilation, erosion, edge enhancement and the ability to display any of an image's 8 bitplanes. An invaluable feature is the ability to design your own filters and over 20 of these are supplied on disk. A number of greyscale adjustment filters are also supplied. Blocks may be cut and pasted between images and two images can be merged together to create some interesting effects. The ability to convert mono IMGs into true greyscale images is most helpful for those of you who do not have greyscale scanners. Imagelab is restricted to loading its own B_W format, AIM format or uncompressed IFFs but external conversion utilities allow GIF, TIFF, Degas and IMG format to be converted to B_W and vice versa. Although the program runs in mono, all work is actually performed in 256 greyscale mode.

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ImCon 1.1
Converts pictures between many graphic formats including DOO, PIC, P?1, P?2, P?3, NEO, PAC, TN?, ART, SPC, SPU, IM, IMG, IFF, PCX, GIF & TIF. You can enlarge or reduce the size of pictures, enlarge the screen area but retain the image size, convert between True Colour, Greyscale and palette based formats, invert the picture, switch on or off dithering and so on. Images can be resaved in IMG, TIFF, IFF or raw screendump formats. What makes IMCON score over more fully featured packages like GEM-View is its ability to load the picture into memory rather than display it on screen, thus avoiding the problems of colour reduction in lower resolutions. Having said that, you can display the image on screen if you want. IMCON runs on any Atari and is compatible with most graphic cards.
Pixikrome
An image processing package written in STOS! You can load pictures in Spectrum 512, RAW (QRT Raytrace), Degas, NEO, NeoChrome Master, Canvas, Art Director, IFF, IMG and TNY formats amongst others or digitise into the program directly using Vidi ST. Special effects include mosaic, inverse, shatter, sinewave, tanwave, flip and mirror. The colour intensities of RAW images can be adjusted for the different red, green and blue components. A number of filters such as min, max, mean, median and blur are also included. Although True Colour pictures are worked in in their their separate RGB parts, there is a preview mode which gives you an idea of what the adjusted picture will look like. Your completed masterpiece will have to be viewed using Photochrome or Raw2Spec. Needs 1 Meg, Colour ONLY.
MOV-POV 2.86
GEM based shell for use with POV Raytrace. What makes this shell different is that it can be set to render several scripts, one after the other, and it can also generate animations from POV scripts. You enter the parameters for the animation and the program generates the appropriate scripts for the in- between frames. Lots of options (some only available when you register) to make life easier for anyone who uses POV Raytrace.
Virtual Screen XIMG Viewer 1.3
Allows you to view any IMG or XIMG picture quickly and easily. It can even be installed as an application for viewing IMGs. Colour IMGs with more colours than the current screen resolution supports, will be displayed as monochrome.
(X)IMG-Snapshot
A program which lets you save any section of the Desktop to disk. Can be run as a PRG or ACC.
FLM Play (Kinetics)
Allows you to play FLM animations (commonly found on PC CD ROMs) on any ST, STE or TT.

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PABLo Paint 2.5
Another mono offering but this one has colour versions available to registered users. Pablo loads PIC, ART, NEO and Degas formats as well as its own PK3 and PA3. The True Colour version for Falcon owners loads around 40 file types and saves about 20! There are over 150 icons on screen representing tools and other useful functions. Most (but not all) are functional in this Shareware version. As well as all the usual tools, you can map any texture onto a selected shape, convert pictures from colour to mono, convert to greyscale and work on pictures as large as 1800x1800 pixels. Up to 53 screens are supported subject to memory and 12 screens may be viewed at once in miniature. Other unique features include a built-in perspective system, 23 different block transformations, built-in screen saver, masking, libraries of commonly used systems, special cartoon effects and much more. This is no ordinary art package! The demo version is complete but all save operations are disabled until you register with the author. Needs 1 Meg.
EC-Paint 1.01
EC Paint hails from Norway and has a host of features not normally associated with mono art packages, the ability to load colour pictures being just one. In this case, you are given extensive (but easy to use) control over the dithering process. It loads IMG, PCX, TIF, IFF, CRG, BMP, MSP, MAC, PAC, DOO, GEM, EPS, NEO, TN?, PI? & PC? formats and saves back using about a dozen of those formats. EC Paint easily accommodates images larger than the physical screen area. You can use Calamus, GEM or system fonts for text input, although Calamus fonts give best results. As well as the usual line, point, box, circle, polygon, airbrush, mirror and magnify tools, you can create circle segments, 3D wireframe boxes, 3D wireframe polygons, ellipses, arcs, elliptical arcs, parallelograms, bezier curves and b-spline curves. A number of different fills are supplied or you can design your own with the built-in fill designer. Block handling is extensive with the ability to cut, bend, skew, rotate, twist, lighten, darken and distort. User settings are available for the spray can, orientation of shapes, gradient fills (very powerful), shadow and much more. Printout is supported to 9-pin, 24-pin and HP Desk/Laserjet printers with the option to print thumbnails of your pictures.

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AQT 0.96
A simple Apple QuickTime player for Atari (mono, 16 or 256 colors). For all, which have found any animations and couldn't show them. The viewer supports CVID24, RLE8, RLE16, RLE24, RAW, SMC8 and without sound.
DL Viewer 0.01b
This utility will play back DL animations. Simply known as DL animations this file format originates from the PC platform. Many PC CD-ROMS and Bulletin Boards. Memory requirements are based on the DL files you attempt to load. Runs in any resolution greater than 320x200x16. contain DL files and now you can view them on your Atari.
AVI2Wave
Converts the sound data in AVI animations into WAV format which can then be loaded into WAVE PLAYER
McFli 0.7
Plays FLI or FLC animations in a GEM window on an ST/E or TT with a graphic card running in 256 colours.
Squirl
A light synthesiser/pattern generator program similar in many ways to Jeff Minter's Trip-A-Tron (ART.3487). Patterns are generated by mouse movement but the emphasis is less reliant on the actual movement and more so on the way the mouse is moved. Dim the lights and play around with this one. You'll be amazed with some of the results you get. You can even try running it with a screen magnifier or mouse speeder program installed and watch how the display changes.
Timmy's Tree Designer
A fun program to play around with when you need to relax. Simply set the twig, branch and trunk sizes for the tree along with a few other user definable parameters, then grow your own tree! A number of example script files are supplied which will enable you to create 16 different 'types' of tree with ease. Your masterpieces may be saved out as script files or in PI3 format.
AVI Play
A simple AVI player for Atari computers (mono, 16 or 256 colors). For all who have found animations and couldn't show them. At the moment the viewer supports only CRAM8,CRAM16 and uncompressed, RLE8,RLE4 (untested) and CVID and all without sound.
RIFF Show
Displays information on RIFF animation files.

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Munch 1.1
An impressive monochrome graphics package. As well as all the usual drawing tools, there's the following tools:- star/multigon, parallelogram, smudge, multi-bezier, rubber ellipse, gradient, bend and lasso, to name just a few. Munch also allows you to work on pictures larger than the screen and has lots of special effects (registered users get a program to create their own). You can load images in Degas, NEO, IMG, MAC, PAC and TN3 formats and save as IMG, TIFF, PAC, PI3 and more. You can even save pictures in PRG format so that they can be double-clicked and displayed from the Desktop. There are lots of user definable parameters which affect the way the tools work. Munch is fully compatible with (Speedo)GDOS and can make use of GDOS fonts.
Scan It!
Formerly a commercial release, this package is now available as Shareware. The software as supplied loads, GIF, IMG, ESM and PAC file formats and saves as ESM or IMG. It features a number of block manipulation and filtering processes (some are disabled in this version) and allows you to convert True Colour pictures to Greyscales or Greyscales to monochrome. This is of course just a taster of Scan-It's real power, which lies in its ability to scan images. Registered users get the appropriate scanner driver for their make of scanner. Scan-It runs in any resolution and is fully compatible with graphic cards.

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The Fractal Engine 2.1
Supports all sets including 'Barnsley' and saves zoomed animations in small or full screen format with its own animation player. Also, you can save palettes and co-ordinates etc. Fractal popcorn, mountains and plasma clouds are new for v2 as are 3D fractal landscapes (created using spherical mapping or landscape rendering), and images may be overlayed on top of each other. Very well documented with plenty of example files.
PICFIB V1.1a
A slideshow program with a few differences. Picfib currently supports the viewing of IMG, Degas, PCX and GIF images. Lists of images can be created and individual pictures assigned 'tags'. These tags are then used as basis of searches so that only files in the list which match any chosen tag or tags, will be displayed. Picfib runs on any Atari but pictures with less colours than the current resolution will look pretty awful! If you've got lots of pictures (especially clip art) on your hard drive, this may well be just what you need to get them into some sort of logical order.

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POV Stuff Volume 1
A collection of 25 very high quality raytracing scripts for you to render yourself using POV Raytrace v2. These have been collected from a number of sources and cover a wide variety of subject matter. Scenes are BUG4, CAM1, COBRA, DISP2, DISPLAY, EN, ENTERPR2, ENTERPRS, FILM, FLAME, GAP1, H2O, HAVESEAT, LIONFISH, NIGHTSKY, OBJ1, OBJ3, ONGARD, PAWN, PICFRAME, SHNY_POV, SWORD, WINDOW, WORLD2, XWING. Most can be rendered on a 1 Mb machine but some will need more, one in particular requires 4 Mb

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POV Stuff Volume 1
A collection of 25 very high quality raytracing scripts for you to render yourself using POV Raytrace v2. These have been collected from a number of sources and cover a wide variety of subject matter. Scenes are BUG4, CAM1, COBRA, DISP2, DISPLAY, EN, ENTERPR2, ENTERPRS, FILM, FLAME, GAP1, H2O, HAVESEAT, LIONFISH, NIGHTSKY, OBJ1, OBJ3, ONGARD, PAWN, PICFRAME, SHNY_POV, SWORD, WINDOW, WORLD2, XWING. Most can be rendered on a 1 Mb machine but some will need more, one in particular requires 4 Mb

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MPEG Fever 1.0
A collection of utilities for analysing and creating MPEG animations, all held together in a nice friendly GEM based shell. MPEG is the animator's equivalent of JPEG. It is a lossy compression method but first generation MPEGs are usually of a high enough quality to deceive the human eye into thinking that they are the same as the original. The loss in quality is offset by the fact that files are typically compressed to around 10% or less of their original size. MPEG Fever allows you to create your own MPEGs from a set of sequentially numbered TGA files (other more obscure formats are also supported) or extract the individual frames from an existing MPEG animation. You can also extract specified sections of the animation to its own MPEG file or join two animations together. A large amount of analysis of MPEGs is also supported for the technically minded. All other functions are fully operational. Needs at least 1 Mb, more for processing large files. Needs to be run in ST high resolution or better. Although you can work on MPEG files in mono, you cannot view the animations on an ST unless you have a graphics card.

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AtSIRDS
Single Image Random Dot Stereograms (SIRDS) are those 3D pictures that nobody can ever focus in on! This two disk set comprises of several GFA Basic programs which let you create your own from any standard uncompressed TGA image. The output files from POV Raytrace are ideal for the purpose and several example POV scripts are included along with a handful of pre-rendered images. Two versions of the program are included, one for making monochrome SIRDS, the other for creating True Colour ones.

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AtSIRDS
Single Image Random Dot Stereograms (SIRDS) are those 3D pictures that nobody can ever focus in on! This two disk set comprises of several GFA Basic programs which let you create your own from any standard uncompressed TGA image. The output files from POV Raytrace are ideal for the purpose and several example POV scripts are included along with a handful of pre-rendered images. Two versions of the program are included, one for making monochrome SIRDS, the other for creating True Colour ones.

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DEPICT
DEPICT: DEgas to MacPaint PICTure Converter by Rana Dutt. Very simple to use - just select the Degas file to convert using the item selector, the program will do the rest
IMG2PS 0.2
Converts monochrome IMG images to PostScript files.
FLM Animation Builder (GIF2FLM) 0.50
This utility will create an FLM delta animation file from a series of GIF images rendered with Phoenix and ANM-Link.
HPCDTOPPM 0.51
Converts Kodak PCD files (at their various resolutions) into Portable PixMap (PPM) format or PostScript/Encapsulated PostScript formats. Convert the PPM output to something more useful using GEM-View. Several user definable settings can be used in the conversion process.
FLIplayer 2.5
Plays AutoDesk Animator FLI animations in resolutions of 640x480 or higher (ST high res or TT/Falcon modes).
EZGEM
Converts GEM Metafiles produced by Uniterm (when using GDOS) into a format which can be used in EasyDraw. Probably works for *.GEM files produced by other packages too.
XIMG-Snapshot v1.43df
An ACC based screen grabber. Rather than snapshot the entire screen, you can either rubberband the required area for saving or select the top window so that only the top windows contents (excl. GEM slider bars) are saved to disk (useful for grabbing screenshots for reviews or product manuals).
JML-Snapshot 5.21
A snapshot program, for all resolutions and colour depths. Storage formats (X)IMG, IFF and TIFF; in German and English
3D2->POV Converter 1.2
ESC/P Emulator
This GEM-View module allows you to view a file intended for printing on Epson 9-pin printers. The file can also be output to a different printer via GEM-View's printer drivers.
APEXTGA
A full (yes FULL) 24-bit TARGA viewer for the Falcon and ST/STE.Uses scaling & supersampling to allow images larger than visible resolution to be viewed on VGA/RGB/TV monitors without pixel deterioration.
GIFSPC
Converts GIF format files into Spectrum 512 format.
Gif to FLI
Allows you to specify a list of GIF images to be joined together in a continuous animation in FLI or FLC format. There are lots of other options such as the speed of animation, colour mapping options if more than one palette is used (FLI only), double-buffering support and positioning of animation on screen.

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The Degas Art Presentation
A taster from Floppyshop's DegasArt graphics tutorial. This disk contains over 40 impressive hand drawn images by the above named graphic artists. Some are from the DegasArt package itself, others have never been seen before. Nicely presented in a slideshow with an accompanying text file giving some background on each image. Don't misunderstand, this is not a tutorial disk, you'll have to buy the full three disk set for that. Instead it's a collection of superb original artwork with a smattering of hints and tips for the budding computer artist.

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Bitmap View 4.2.0
A file viewer, converter and slideshow program which runs in almost any resolution. Conversions can be performed blind in order to preserve colour depth or you can have the image colour reduced (where necessary) to display in the current mode. Some new features include real-time zooming, slideshow option, fullscreen display option and mosaic mode which lets you display all loaded pictures on screen at once. New to v4 is support for Parx Software's external modules which allow scanners and digitisers to input directly into BV4.
GIF Trans 0.1b
Lets you create 'transparent' GIFs for use in your HTML documents. Select which of the 256 colours is to be treated as transparent and the file will be re-saved with the transparency set accordingly.
JPG68000.CPX
A CPX for use with XControl which allows you to convert GIF, TGA or PPM images into JPEG format or vice versa using various options.
GIFcolor & GIFscale
Two very compact GIF viewers. They take a standard GIF, colour reduce it to 16 colours (or greyscales), then let you pan around the image on a huge 'virtual' screen. Both programs can be installed as Applications from the GEM Desktop (lets you double-click GIFs to view them).
JPEG 68k RIM
M&E JPEG loader module for use on STs and TTs. Works with Bitmap View.
Diapo 1.02
Converts an entire directory of images into thumbnails (miniatures) on a single page at the current screen resolution, colour reducing as necessary. There are various dithering and palette options, an optional 3D look, adjustable image size, adjustable spacing between images and much more. Ideal for cataloguing your collection of graphics. This Shareware version does not allow different image sizes and Save is disabled.

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M&E Modules
An impressive collection of graphics based modules created by Parx, a French company responsible for a number of Atari based products. These must be installed prior to use and are common to all applications (eg; BV4, Piccolo, D2M, Diapo etc), using M&E modules, so you need only have one set of modules installed on your system. They handle graphic cards, memory management, intelligent colour reduction, generation of textures, support for GDOS/NVDI printing, the loading of over 40 and saving of over 30 different file types (all common Atari formats as well as Photo CD, TIFF, GIF etc) and digitising directly into any supporting program using Vidi ST and others. There's even a module which lets you output photographic quality images to the Fargo FotoFun. M&E modules (and programs which use them) are most usable if you have two floppy drives or a hard drive.