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DISNEY CHAR
SCHEMATIC
PORTRAIT
CHESS
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
The HELLO program guides us through the
pictures. It's completely self-explanatory (as every confusing technical book
says), but here's some step-by-step guidance.
WHAT IS THE FILENAME OF THE PICTURE
?
The program is asking for the NAME of the picture we want to print. Let's try:
PORTRAIT
The computer reports:
LOADING PICTURE
then
IS THIS THE CORRECT PICTURE (Y/N);
?
flashes before our very eyes. We type:
Y
<RETURN>
It wants to know more:
WHAT SIZE? (R=REGULAR L=LARGE)?
Oh, regular size is fine:
R
<RETURN>
Still more options, so the next query is:
NORMAL(N) OR REVERSE(R)?
This can be a bit confusing. NORMAL prints every white dot on the screen as a
black dot on the white paper. This IS what we "normally" think of as "normal"
printing. If we want the picture to appear with a black background, exactly as it
appears on the screen, we request REVERSE. Got that?
Using the HIRES Screen Dump Program
actual
process of printing the
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