Turaco Classic
The Ultimately Radical Arcade Changing Operator
	Development work on Turaco Classic has ended. Although, there is still vague support via the Turaco Yahoo Group.
	Be sure to check out Turaco CL here: Turaco CL.

What is Turaco?

Turaco Classic was the next generation of The Arcade Games Editor A.K.A. "AGE". After a year of development, and many modifications to the original core of AGE; and then modifications on those modifications, it was decided by myself (Scott Lawrence) and Ivan Mackintosh (the father of AGE) to do a full re-write. I headed up this effort, using the GUI interface that "ALLEGRO" uses, and writing new things where necessary to get us where we are today...

Turaco / Age is an editor of graphics and other things from those arcade games from ye olden days. You can load in the graphics of Pac-Man, Galaga, Commando, or your old favorite game, and give Pac-Man a mohawk, change the bugs in Galaga, or do whatever you like. You can then take those modified graphics, and load them in an emulator, or download them to a real arcade machine.

What is AGE?

AGE was the "Arcade Graphics/Game Editor". It was spearheaded by Ivan Mackintosh, with much code contributions from me and Chris Moore. The only real reason to keep it around anymore is that it supports Pac-Man map editing. That functionality was never put back into Turaco.

Here's what A.G.E. looks like...

The main AGE editing screen	The AGE map editor

Here's what Turaco looks like...

The file selector...	Pac-Man graphics loaded in...
Animation testing

What's available in the final version of Turaco? (1.1.3)

• Sprite animation testing. Set start and end, and let 'er rip!
• Conway's "Life" is supported. (F12) (More Information about "life")
• Drivers can be (and are) stored in subdirectories below DRIVERS/
• [esc] handing for when driver selector is starting up (file-change game)
• User preferences screen for TURACO.INI features
• Display of moose position when the moose is over the sprite palette
• Removed the sprite palette popup menu;
  • Added the EDIT button to replace it
  • Added double-clicks with left/right to replace it as well
• Alike-sized banks will not clear the edit window on a bank change now
• display of cursor position in the sprite palette
• display of selected sprite in the sprite palette outlines the sprite now
• PCX save bank to file (F9) (edit menu)
• PCX load sprite from file (F10) (edit menu)
• Generic Gameboy game driver
• Single plane drivers fixed & then unfixed
• Image file palette loader - loads a palette from a TGA/BMP/PCX/LBM
• hopefully sped up encoding/decoding routines (load/save/bank switch)
• fixed bitmap grid display and sprite palette displays
• new font - a pretty sans-serif system font
• [esc] no longer exits the program
• More keyboard shortcuts added
• An "Are you sure" window pops up when you try to quit the editor
• save bank to C source file (EXPERIMENTAL! -- only works in some situations)
• README.TXT and WHATSNEW.TXT viewers added (help menu)
• Updated readme.txt file
• Added a well documented driver file: INIDRIV.TXT

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