!ModeConv - written by Stuart Hickinbottom
---------   with help from Mark Bright

This handy little desktop utility will allow you to
convert a sprite from one mode to another simply by
dropping it onto the icon on the icon bar.

The icon provides a sub-window which allows you to
set the new scale of the sprite (ie 2:1 will double
the size in one dimension), and a nice rectangular-
shaped thing will show the new aspect-ratio of the
sprite.

Another window allows the destination screen mode of
the sprite to be set, along with a option to try
to preserve the colour of the original image (if
this option is left off in anything other than a
256-colour mode then a grey-scale palette will be
included with the image).

This program actually does not do any of the work -
credit for that must go to Roger Wilson of Acorn
Computers for writing the excellent ChangeFSI
utility. This utility (which is provided in the
application directory in its entirity) provides
many more functions than the desktop front-end
uses, so it is worth learning how to use it from
the command line.

This program has been placed into the public domain
by Stuart Hickinbottom. It may be freely copied and
distributed for non-profit making purposes (a small
charge to cover cost of distribution is allowed,
however), so long as the code is not altered (apart
from customising !Run/!Boot files) and this text
file remains present and unaltered. If you have any
queries/suggestions then I would be chuffed to hear
from you, so please write to me at Loughborough
University:

Stuart Hickinbottom,
 Cayley Hall,
  Ashby Road,
   Loughborough,
    Leicestershire.
    LE11 3TX