27-08-2023, 07:55 PM
From my recent purchase of Microbee material there was a backup disk of BeeArtistic and some Tutorial Guides. The disk was a standard Microbee 5.25" DS40 disks thats auto-booting and with no copy protection. The disk imaged 100% error free on a Floppyio.
We already have both standard (v1.1) and premium (v1.3) disk versions of BeeArtistic in the repository as well as the manual, however, this version boots up with a very different intro screen showing a specific version for the Education Department of Western Australia. This is version 1.1 and a quick use of the program it appears to function the same as ver 1.1 that we already have, except for the opening screen. Its boots with -
BeeArtistic is an interactive software package
which allows you to create high resolution
drawings using a variety of tools.
Using a joystick or keyboard, you can draw
pictures and use the many built-in options to
enhance these drawings. Easy to use menus allow
you to draw lines, circles and other shapes
quickly.
There were also two BeeArtistic Tutorial guides. Both guides were A4 in size 3 hole punched at the side and still sealed in their plastic wrappers. They were 35 & 39 pages long, scanned at 600pdi and converted to searchable PDF's as usual.
The lessons are split into BASIC and ADVANCED sections
and are followed by a set of REVISION QUESTIONS at the
end of each section.
Unfortunately, the disks to be used with these tutorials were not included, so can anyone help there to complete the set? The Teachers guide also describes their use on the Microbee Star Network as well as a standalone Microbee. The 3 page site licence agreement from Exetek tends to be orientated to Sites, like Schools or other training institute rather than individual end users.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Applications\Graphics folder we placed
beeartistic_wesoft_ds40.dsk
beeartistic_tutorial_students_guide.pdf <-- in Microbee\Documentation\Manuals\Education folder
beeartistic_tutorial_teachers_guide.pdf
exitek_site_licence_agreement.pdf <-- in Microbee\Documentation\Articles folder
We already have both standard (v1.1) and premium (v1.3) disk versions of BeeArtistic in the repository as well as the manual, however, this version boots up with a very different intro screen showing a specific version for the Education Department of Western Australia. This is version 1.1 and a quick use of the program it appears to function the same as ver 1.1 that we already have, except for the opening screen. Its boots with -
BeeArtistic is an interactive software package
which allows you to create high resolution
drawings using a variety of tools.
Using a joystick or keyboard, you can draw
pictures and use the many built-in options to
enhance these drawings. Easy to use menus allow
you to draw lines, circles and other shapes
quickly.
There were also two BeeArtistic Tutorial guides. Both guides were A4 in size 3 hole punched at the side and still sealed in their plastic wrappers. They were 35 & 39 pages long, scanned at 600pdi and converted to searchable PDF's as usual.
The lessons are split into BASIC and ADVANCED sections
and are followed by a set of REVISION QUESTIONS at the
end of each section.
Unfortunately, the disks to be used with these tutorials were not included, so can anyone help there to complete the set? The Teachers guide also describes their use on the Microbee Star Network as well as a standalone Microbee. The 3 page site licence agreement from Exetek tends to be orientated to Sites, like Schools or other training institute rather than individual end users.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Applications\Graphics folder we placed
beeartistic_wesoft_ds40.dsk
beeartistic_tutorial_students_guide.pdf <-- in Microbee\Documentation\Manuals\Education folder
beeartistic_tutorial_teachers_guide.pdf
exitek_site_licence_agreement.pdf <-- in Microbee\Documentation\Articles folder
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