really very rewarding, especially if you want to scale
your text. Instead, design your text with outline fonts in
draw (or even better draw+) and then use Paint's screen
grab utility to convert to sprite format (thats the method
I used for the menus in this mag!).

   Finally, because of the strange (and rather wasteful)
way that Acorn designed the graphics on the Archie, you
can only ever have 256 colours on screen at once, and
always the same ones. This fixed pallete forces artists to
use dithering on shaded areas of a picture. But in 16
colour modes (like mode 12 for example) each colour can be
picked from a range of up to 4096 colours, a fact that
many people forget. This wide choice is possible, because
each colour can be made up from 16 different shades of
red, green and blue, giving a choice between 16 x 16 x 16
= 4096 possible colours. This allows you to use many more
shades of the same colour than is currently possible in a
256 colour mode (although obviously only 16 at a time).
Use the desktop pallete utility to experiment.

Factfile

Try disk "Utility 9" from the Datafile for system fonts.

COBRA