Convert 3200

[joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn)]

BRUTAL DELUXE'S CONVERT 3200

Since bursting upon the Apple IIGS scene in 1992, the French
programming team Brutal Deluxe has thrilled the IIGS community with
one smash-hit freeware game after another. In the past 3 years,
Brutal Deluxe has delighted, excited, and enchanted the Apple IIGS
community with such wonderful instant-classics as The Tinies, Cogito,
Blockade, Opale Demo and The Tinies Construction Kit.

Not content to rest on their laurels, Brutal Deluxe, in association
with Shareware Solutions II, is pleased to announce the release of
their very first commercial software product for the Apple IIGS:
Convert 3200.

Under development for 2+ years, Convert 3200 was initially used by
Brutal Deluxe as their in-house graphics conversion utility to help
port graphics to all of their freeware games. Updated, optimized and
now sporting a user-friendly and fun-to-use interface that is similar
to that found in Brutal Deluxe's games, Convert 3200 is a simple to
use program that contains amusing Easter Eggs and sophisticated
machine language algorithms that makes it the fastest graphics
conversion program ever released for the Apple IIGS.

Convert 3200 is such a speed demon that it takes just 15 seconds or
less to convert any of the supported graphic file formats to a IIGS
Super Hi Res graphic format containing 16, 256 or 3200 colors.

Convert 3200 can convert graphics from one format to another, with no
regard to whether the original graphic was created on an Apple IIGS,
a Mac or an IBM PC. It works with such common Apple IIGS graphic
formats as Apple Preferred Format and PaintWorks Gold format, as well
as the less common DYA 3200, PackBytes, French Formats (such as APP
and NRL) and the Unpacked Screen Format. The true beauty of Convert
3200 is that it also works with foreign format graphics, such as
Windows-OS/2 BMP, Compuserve GIF, Amiga .IFF/ PC .LBM, Paintbrush
PCX, Binary PC and several varieties of TIFF files. Convert 3200 even
has the unique ability to save graphic files in the following formats:
Apple Preferred, Windows BMP, Paintbrush PCX, TIFF, Binary PC and
Print Shop GS.

Convert 3200 is very flexible and easy to use. There is only one
convert button and no complicated options; however, Convert 3200
allows you to select your 320 * 200 area as you want, and it provides
power users with the ability to modify RGB tones, remove some colors
and it even comes with an automated script conversion mode. Best of
all, its "convert all" option allows you to convert dozens of
graphics at once, in an unattended mode.

Convert 3200 is currently available from Shareware Solutions II for
the low price of $15, which includes postage to anywhere in the
world. The complete Merlin 16+ source code will also be available
(at a later date) to owners of Convert 3200 for an additional $5.

Convert 3200 is professional quality software that costs less than
many shareware programs. It is not copy protected, and it is hard
drive installable. In an effort to keep the pricing as low as
possible, a complete and extensive documentation manual is supplied
as a file on the disk.

Despite its low cost, technical support is provided directly by
Brutal Deluxe and it is available 24 hours a day via Internet e-mail.
Plus, if any updates are released, they will be available free of
charge to all Convert 3200 owners.

Convert 3200 requires a IIGS with at least 2 megabytes of RAM memory;
4 megabytes of memory is recommended to convert large 1280 * 800
graphics. Convert 3200 has been tested on Apple IIGS ROM 01 and ROM
03 versions, and it requires System 6.0.1. Although not required,
a hard disk drive and an accelerator card is recommended.

To purchase Convert 3200, send checks or money orders, in US Funds
only, in the amount of $15, to:

Joe Kohn
Shareware Solutions II
166 Alpine St
San Rafael, CA 94901-1008
USA

Sorry, but no credit cards or school purchase orders can be accepted.
Please make all check payable to Joe Kohn.