Sketch Pad

Sketch Pad is a drawing package from Sigma Research of Cambridge which could be used with either the cursor keys or a joystick.

The program works by allowing you to draw ellipses, circles, rectangles and arcs to build up your picture, adding text in a variety of sizes and then allowing you to alter the colours and fill shapes before saving the picture or printing it out.

The save function does not output a standard screen dump - instead it produces a listing of the objects drawn saving hundreds of bytes per picture (but making it slower to redraw the screen in the future).

Advertised features included:

Screen dump to any Epson compatible printer
Microdrive save and load of screens
Use of stipple gives a vast range of colours
Graphics and text can be freely mixed
Automatic drawing of many shapes
Filling of regular or irregular shapes in any colour
Drawings saved on microdrive can be redisplayed from within any SuperBASIC program using simple procedures supplied on microdrive

Title: Sketch Pad
Language: Unknown
Author: Unknown
Publisher: Sigma Research
Year of Publication: 1985
Platforms Suitable for: Sinclair QLs
Price in February 1985: £14.90
Reviews: QL User (June 1985), QL User (November 1985)
Sources Available from: n/a
Latest Version available from: Unknown