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ATARI Light Pen Operator's Manual
8K VERSION OF PALLET:
A Light Pen Parting Program
Once the 8K version of PALLET has been loaded< the screen uill display
a menu block draun along its right-hand edge. There are five possible
menu selections provided in this program. The top selection indicates
background color mode. If the pen is currently in this mode* any
points plotted uith the pen uill be in the background color. This has
the effect of erasing any other color uihich may have been plotted
there previously.
The next three menu choices are the color selectors. When you press
the pen against the screen at any one of these spots# the color of the
points plotted by the pen uill be in the color you selected.
The bottom menu selector is the CLEAR block. When you press the pen
against this block and lift it#
the screen is cleared and
reinitialized.
To understand houf the program utorks#
place the pen against the screen
somewhere near the center. A colored dot will appear if the pen is not
in the background color mode. Continue to press the tip of the pen
against the television screen and move the pen across the screen. A
line will follow the pen as it moves. This line extends from the
original spot at which the pen was placed# to the spot now occupied by
the pen. It appears to be elastic (like a rubber band) because the
line is continuously being plotted and then erased as the pen is
moved. Lift the pen from the surface. The line you have drawn is now
frozen in the last position it occupied. Draw a few more lines this
way.
ATARI Light Pen Demonstration Program Cassette - 8
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