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the ATARI Touch Tablet with AtariArtist
Insert the AtariArtist cartridge into the computer's
cartridge slot (the cartridge should be inserted into
the LEFT SLOT in an ATARI 800™ Home Computer), If
you're
using
a
disk drive to store
your
drawings, turn
on your
disk drive
before
you turn on
your
computer.
When the BUSY light on your disk drive goes
off,
in-
sert a
DOS-formatted diskette into
your
disk drive and
turn your computer
on (see your disk
drive owner's
guide
for
complete
instructions for loading and saving
programs),
After
the
AtariArtist
welcome screen appears, you
have
two
options:
1) You can
press
ElJD
or any of the
control
buttons
on
the Touch Tablet
or
stylus
to
move
to the AtariArtist
menu,
or 2) You
can press the
II1D
key (if your computer
has
one) or
type the [?J to
call
up the help
screen,
The help
screen provides
direc-
tions
that'll have
you
drawing
on your
Touch
Tablet
almost as soon as you
turn your
computer on,
Then you
can
call your
"electronic canvas"
to
your
TV
screen
by removing the
stylus
from the tablet
surface and pressing
one
of
the
control buttons or
the
space bar on your
computer, To move back
and
forth
between the "canvas"
and the
menu at any
time,
simply
repeat this step-lift the
stylus
from the tablet
surface,
then press a control button
or the space
bar.
To begin an
activity-make a
menu
selection or
draw a
line,
for
example-you must first touch
the
stylus or other writing
tool to the Touch
Tablet surface,
then
press one of
the three
control
buttons, Except
when
using the DRAW and POINT features, you must
then
press
one
of
the three
control
buttons, Except
when
using the DRAW
and
POINT
features,
you must
then
press a
control button
again when you're
finished
drawing to
"lay" your work
in
or it will
disappear
when you
lift the stylus
off
the tablet.
When
you select
the DRAW
feature,
you can lock
the button
on
the right
of
the Touch Tablet into
the
"ON" position-so you can draw freehand without con-
tinuously
holding down a button-by first touching the
stylus
to
the
Touch Tablet
surface, then pressing the
button on the right side of
the
tablet. This
lets
you
create a picture on your
TV
screen and
lift the
stylus
from
the
Touch Tablet
surface to check your work,
then touch the
,stylus
to the
surface again
to resume
drawing, Press the right-hand
button a second
time to
turn it
off.
The button
on
the
stylus or
the button
on
the
left
of
the Touch Tablet, however, must be pressed
continuously when you're
using
the
DRAW
feature,
If
you're drawing with a blunt instrument-such as
a
finger-the
cursor appears at
the
center of
the
covered
area, If
you
touch the Touch Tablet
simultaneously
at two points, the
cursor appears
mid-
way between
them,
Watch the television
screen
instead
of your
hand
while drawing on the
Touch Tablet. The
coordination
required
to do
this
will soon become second
nature,
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