Subj:  AppleSoft Shape Table Generator       August 24, 1989
From:  Mick B

File:  THE.TABLER (10532 bytes)
DL time (14400 baud): < 1 minute
Download count: 117

AUTHOR:    Michael Black (Mick B)
EQUIPMENT: Apple IIe, IIc, IIGS
NEEDS:     BASIC.SYSTEM
OS:        ProDOS
FILE TYPE: BAS (Basic program)

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This is an Applesoft BASIC program that provides an area within itself for
placing DATA statements of shape table data, and when the program is run, it does
the work of installing the shape tables in memory.  (You provide the shape table
data, and this program will do the work of building the shape tables.)

This isn't exactly just another shape table generator.  Whenever you make a shape
table, you start with graph paper, right?  Then you draw a bunch of arrows to
decide how to make the shape definition.  Then you use a shape table editor and
move a cursor around following all the vectors you've drawn already.  This
program lets you put all the vectors in data and then creates a shape table (with
as many shapes as you want) from the data.  The program will create the shape
table & its index, allow you to look at and manipulate the shapes, save the table
if you want it saved, and tell you what to POKE for the shape table pointer.  It
also has a lot of little niceties that make the program more enjoyable to use.

It includes all the necessary documentation (in PRINT and REM statements) as well
as a sample shape table in data.  There is a small shareware fee of $5.