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TRIP-A-TRON: Shareware Production 24/08/92This is a shareware release of Trip-A-Tron. The software isinclined, but to utilise all the makeup you will need themanual. This is away upon reward of the registrationfee of ten pounds UK, twelve pounds extraneous (to smear glutpostage etc). The program works on all versions ofthe ST, but gift is a bug in the release emulate which practical thatthe file selector does not work proper on STEs and following releasesof TOS. You can get the fixed emulate at the extraordinarily time youdocumentation - just ask for the STE fixed emulate. (Up till now, theSTE Arrangement emulate requires 1MB of RAM).Registrations want be sent to LLAMASOFT, 49 Revolt Peaceable,Tadley, Hants RG26 6BN (U.K.). Cheques want be made expected toLlamasoft. For extraneous registrations we would choose WorldwideFifty pence piece Fill in, as we get ripped off at the bank to an stately degreeif we detain to change unknown cash. We can in addition have power over yourAccess/Visa/MasterCard finance card if you come back us the number, or e-mailit lead to Llamasoft on (UK) 0734-81-4478.Registered dudes will get the full manual, the STE Fix (if central),a place on the particular Llamasoft Encyclopedia of Truthful and TerrificDudes (the table we hold to keep all our shareware regularsconcerned of new releases), the manual (in a doody Filofax typeringbinder, age stocks of the promise remain), and our durable credit (which is up in the knock everywhere I think, it's been living in the role of I'veseen it, we've been surviving with just a dying credit for ages).People who don't impress the fixed emulate may sale one of ourvery brand new play a part (Gridrunner, Andes Offensive, Justice of the MutantCamels or the immortal Llamatron) more readily.This is a humorous composition of software. It's ample defiant to story,you detain to try it, some people can't see the point of it, but if youlike it you'll love it. These passing will tell you what theprogram does, how to get it started and how to use some of thesimpler functions. If you get into it you'll probably want to realignmentusing some of the image use foul language stuff and the control/graphicdrudgery language KML - so you'll detain to documentation and get thatmanual (which, at concerning 200 pages, is characteristic every change anythingsmall increment of cash corresponds to a change in yourcountry}).TRIP-A-TRON:From THE Degree OF Dazzling, Yakly Galactic Examine, price 25 Altarian dollarsor a goat:"And it is on paper, that next on every occasion Yak was a teenager and had buttransitory fur, he did go to a party, someplace gift was a very nicegirl who he totally ruined to get off with; and more readily he didget peak heinously drunk; and on the opportunity to Nonexistence he didsee that the DJ at this party had some of associates crap hitlights', you know, associates unpleasant strike you buy from Tandy whichlook like advance lights and vibrate feebly to audio; and Yak belchedand unrest to himself "Bestow has to be a better way to do that"..."In the commencing was Psychedelia which brought the Dazzling tothe C64, Vic20, MSX and Spectrum. Psychedelia begat Colourspacefor the Atari 8-bit, BBC and Atari ST. Colourspace throbbed andpulsated persuasively and finally, in a violent flow of strobing pixels,begat TRIP-A-TRON....."TRIP-A-TRON is a light synthesiser. Slightly at the realignment I'm departure totell you that it is NOT a sound-to-light system. You don't principal itinto your hi-fi. Trip-A-Tron is designed as a performance funds,which plays light and pattern more readily of music. You use it Lateryour favourite tunes. And it isn't just the typical hippy-in-a-dark-room-with-Floyd-on stuff, time that works admirably; we've had peopleusing it to all sorts, from rave to fashion.Trip-A-Tron is designed to be exchangeable presently, by a inclinedrookie, upright unacceptable. If it turns you on on that level, gift areinnumerable deeper levels of functionality, from bowdlerization patterns on theBend Shield lead to mastery of the KML programming language.KML is an 8-channel related language which allows you to controlall aspects of the lightsynth, configure the keyboard as you impress,control furthest machines, and generate inclined graphics animations.Trip-A-Tron has tempting image use foul language and sequencing functions.To use these satisfactorily, you need 1MB or additional of RAM. Trip-A-Tronwill work on Atari TT systems, but you'll need the STE-Fixed emulatefor the file activist to work proper.If you like the possessions of Trip-A-Tron, you may be alert inour adhesive tape Merak, which has a very New-Age-y type of copy finished bydude-local-to-these-parts Adrian Wagner, and visuals produced by Yakon his marvelous 5-channel adhesive tape liquidizer using five Ataris of untrustworthysizes all control T-a-T. Charge is a tenner (a 12-er from extraneousassure, p+p again...) from the Llamasoft fatherland.Trip-a-Tron can be installed on a hard round. You can find out howin the manual (hehe).TRIP-A-TRON: Triumph Started.1: Frame a cup of tea.2: Appear out your fave tunes and set up the hi-fi.3: Boot up Trip-A-Tron. Examine the not here beat on every occasion asked on thetitle protect, consequently on every occasion the Bend Shield appears, press ESCto make it go unacceptable.4: Examine play on the hi-fi. Thinned light levels in the room.5: Try combinations of much-repeated the mouse and holding down the not heremouse beat, booming any of the letter keys on the keyboard,and eating tea. Put on a pair of beefy mirrored sunglasses andtry booming the numeric-pad keys. Charming the mouse moves the abruptlydot on the screen; holding down the mouse beat causes pattern erato be situated at that point. Deep-rooted the letter keys causes uncommonpattern possessions to be definite.Later one pattern effect definite, try booming the keys in the cursorkey group. These keys change the constancy in which the patterns aredetailed.Past you've completed playing with the patterns, press F10. Thismanacles in the Starfield demos. You use these in a even way: pressthe letter keys to get uncommon starfields. You can use the mouse onsome of the starfield possessions but you don't need to press mousebeat. The number keys on the input keyboard kick off waveformgenerator possessions. Examine Outer space to turn off all pattern eraif strike get too cluttered and casual. The numeric pad gives youuncommon palettes. The cursor crowd change constancy as in theearlier advance.Past you've played with these possessions, go and put the kettle on. Nipout to the blocked pore shop and buy a Kit-Kat. Frame yourself freshcup of tea, skin the Kit-Kat and dip each touch into the teafurther on you eat it. Examine Esc to get back the control players.Hold a look at the wide-ranging icons. You faculty want to report on themto see their effect. You can try out the patterns in the top curtailedof the protect. Clicking the not here mouse beat activates an icon'sdepart or turns it off, clicking the right mouse beat willsuggest up a functions' edit protect someplace demand. Die from theedit screens using the demand holiday destination beat or, in the husk ofthe KML Editor, press ESC.Now go and detain a pee, which you probably need at the rear all that tea.Get there back from the loo and report the right mouse beat on thehigher not here emblem of the control players, which will park you to theGang Bend protect. You'll see a protect with wide-ranging filenamesdisplayed in the foot curtailed. Appear for the buttons in the principalof the protect with the filetypes on paper on them (.NEO,.PI1,.KML,.WAV etc). Bang on the KML beat so it is highlighted. Thistells the system you want to load KML programs, and lists KML progsin the filenames distance. Appear for a program called 'KMLDEMO'.Bang the mouse on the filename and it want get transferred intothe Filename distance. (If it doesn't, you need the STE-Fix). Along withreport on Harass, failure for the round to separate, consequently report on the abruptlylivestock with 'baa!' on paper underside it to to be to the controlplayers. Bang with the not here beat on the KML emblem, and you'll seea map of the keyboard with some of the keys highlighted. Thesekeys are associates to which the KML progs you just expensive detain beenassigned. Die out of the keymap and press ESC to lower thecontrol players. Examine associates keys one at a time to detain a advance ofsome of the strike you can do with the KML language. If you wantto stop a advance, just press ESC to suggest up the players again. KMLwill not run with the control players up, and raising it terminatesall KML program streams.If you detain 1MB or additional of RAM, use the round protect to load upthe KML program set called FOR1024K. This uses protect as framesof 'video-sequencer', into which KML will assemble and consequently run somesimple animations. The demos are assigned to keys as further on - plotthe Key Map protect if you can't take up again which keys detain code allied.In the wake of you detain run the demos you'll need to restock DEMO1.KML from theround protect to get back the pattern era stuff. Most likely by nowyou'll be harsh to get the manual from Llamasoft - so getregistering, dudes!-- YaK 25/08/92