Updated Announcement of Electronic Cardboard

From: Richard Hogen <hogen@colorado.edu>

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Dear Gamers,

This is an updated announcement of the release of my new shareware
software application that may be of interest to you.  It is a generic
bitmap overlay manager called "Electronic Cardboard".  (the name derives
from the original inspiration for the program, which came from the
PBM/PBEM gaming community) It allows you to easily move and manipulate
graphical objects that overlay a background bitmap.

ELECTRONIC CARDBOARD has a number of features that make it easy to
manipulate bitmap overlays in your computer, such as stack control,
rotation control, undo, front and back bitmaps, text "hints" and memo
for each graphical unit, etc., plus session management and session memo
features and "grease pencil" map annotation capability.

ELECTRONIC CARDBOARD has two other features of general interest.  First,
a graphical Unit can use the color "pure black" as just another color OR
as a TRANSPARENT color.  This allows NON-RECTANGULAR overlay objects.
Also, the SNAPSHOT feature allows you to capture the entire map and all
units thereon (with or without Annotations) into a single .BMP file.

These features make ELECTRONIC CARDBOARD a very useful tool for making
"frames" for animations, for non-destructive annotation of scanned
photographs, for PBM/PBEM gaming, etc.

ANNOUNCEMENT UPDATE:  Some friends are putting together copyright-safe
map and counter bitmaps for ASL, and maybe some other popular board
games, for use with EC.  I'm working on a chess set with 3D perspective
effect.  These bitmap sets will be made available for free downloading
off the EC web page!  If you have some copyright-safe bitmap sets you
think might be useful to the gaming world, please contact me and I'll
see if they seem appropriate for the EC web page.

Please visit our web page at

http://Ourworld.Compuserve.Com/Homepages/GDickinson/ELECRD.HTM

Many Thanks,

Richard Hogen