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Subject: Re: Penguin Software and The Complete G
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Date: 27 Sep 90 19:45:00 GMT
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	Penquin Software changed their name to Polarware due to a copyright problem with Penquin Books.  The old phone number was (312)-232-1984, but it was changed to (708)-232-1984 when the new area code was created.  They were locatedin Geneva, Il, and it was run by Mark Pelczarski, who wrote the Graphics Magician.  I don't know if Polarware still exists or not.  I doubt that they do, because most, if not all, of their support came from the Apple II.  I used to have this program and it was in Dos 3.3, but it s




hould run under Pro-Dos 8.  Just make sure you have the Basic.System loaded, and be sure to obey the filename rules.
	You also mentioned another program, The Artist.  This was sold by On-line (now Sierra).  It was written by Warren Shroeder(sp?) and was a Dos 3.3 program.  I doubt that it would work in Pro-Dos 8.  It was a very crude drawing system, but its main selling point was that it offered dithered colors and a fast fill routine.  It did have a zoom mode, but I don't think it is what you want.  The zoom mode gave you control over each graphics bit along with the color bit.  But, you couldn't control the zoom factor




  It was always a 28x20 (or something like that) block of dots.  And each dot was big enough to be seen individually and easily changed.