Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.dal.ca!iisat!mackay
From: mackay@iisat.UUCP (Daniel MacKay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Imagewriter II color dump prgm
Summary: Not Much Help
Message-ID: <436@iisat.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 89 15:04:27 GMT
References: <8904141658.aa09020@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: International Information Service, Dart., NS
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In article <8904141658.aa09020@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, MJBURGE@OWUCOMCN.BITNET writes:
> 
>         I am in need of an utility to print hires images in color on an
> imagewriter II printer.  I am looking for either a public domain driver,
> or a relatively inexpensive utility.  If anyone has such, I would appreciate
> any information you can give me.
> 
A couple of years ago, when I was cleaning up the shop, I came across a disk
entitled "Imagewriter Toolkit" which did this.  As a matter of fact, it
did a whole bunch of neat things.  It could re-colour a colour image with
a really complicated palette system, change the size and orientation of the
image, and load ALL the apple graphic files, and a half dozen other formats 
I'd never heard of. 

It was written in BASIC with ML drivers and wasn't copy protected, but 
unfortunately had NO information about its origin- no copyright screen, no 
notations in the documentation in any of the BASIC modules.  No-one in the 
shop had ever heard of it.  I'm pretty sure it didn't come from Apple.
It ran in 40-columns, as I recall.

Unfortunately, I loaned the disk to a friend while the "Zap Track Zero"
ProDOS bug was running around, and... you guessed it.  There are so many
millions of files in the thing that I can't recreate track zero manually,
so I think the thing is a lost cause.

I'd also really like to know where this came from, and where to get a
replacement, or buy a legit copy.  It was excellent.
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