Introduction
The ELECTRON GRAPHICS SYSTEM is an advanced picture drawing system for the home computer enthuiast. It runs on an Acorn Electron microcomputer using cassette tapes for storage of software and pictures.
The system is controlled entirely by normal keyboard input so that no additional hardware is necessary to run the system.
The main system features are:
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- Lines
- Boxes
- Circles
- Arcs
- Fill
- Text
- Shape Repetition -
- Elastic Band
- Grid
- Save Home Cursor
- Guidelines - Picture drawing in modes 0, 1 or 2
- Colour changes at any time
- Saving and Loading of pictures from cassette tape
- Multi-file pictures facilitating complex drawings
- Flashing cross-hairs on screen
- Pictures drawn in one mode may be redrawn in another
- No extra hardware required