PrismaRecSkins 1.0

Six more decks for PrismaRec

Short:        Six more decks for PrismaRec
Author:       Marcus Gerards
Uploader:     marcus gerards googlemail com (Marcus Gerards)
Type:         mus/edit
Version:      1.0
Requires:     PrismaRec 1.0 or newer (in driver/audio/PrismaMegamixNG.lha, PrismaNG 3.2 or newer); a screen of 64 colours or more
Architecture: generic
Distribution: NoCD
Kurz:         Sechs weitere Decks fuer PrismaRec

PrismaRecSkins 1.0  --  18.10.2026


WHAT IT IS

Six more decks for PrismaRec, the cassette-deck recorder for the Prisma
Megamix sound card. A deck is a look for PrismaRec's window, painted
rather than drawn: its face, its keys held down, the cassette's door shut
and open. PrismaRec puts its own working parts on it -- the reels, the
level meters, the tape counter, the lamps, the time and the take.

PrismaRec draws Deck '84 and its System look itself, on any screen, and
comes with two decks of pictures, 1985 Graphite and 1990 Titanium. This
package has the others.


WHAT IS IN IT

Each deck is one drawer in Files/Skins; in quotes the name PrismaRec's
settings list it by.

  Skins/1975      "1975 Walnut": champagne aluminium in a walnut trim,
                  cream piano keys, an amber display
  Skins/Silver    "Silver": a brushed aluminium face with silver keys and
                  a green display
  Skins/Black80s  "Black '80s": black brushed metal with gold letters, the
                  cassette behind a smoked door, three lamps, a tape
                  counter of its own, a meter of two rows with a scale
                  under each
  Skins/Early80s  "Early '80s": champagne aluminium, the cassette behind a
                  smoked door, three lamps, one wide panel for the time,
                  the take and the tape counter
  Skins/D90       "D-90": a silver deck of 1980 -- keys that tilt down when
                  pressed, a tape counter of three wheels, two VU meters
                  with moving needles, the input chosen by a plug in one of
                  its two MIC jacks
  Skins/A4000D    "A4000D": the deck in the front of an Amiga 4000 desktop
                  -- an LED tape counter, the input on the key lock, the
                  HDISK lamp lit while it records, the cassette on a tray
                  that slides out of the drive bay

Each drawer holds the deck's Skin.prefs, which places every part, its
pictures (ILBM) and, in Soft, a second set drawn for half-high pixels.


WHAT THEY NEED

  * PrismaRec 1.0 or newer. It comes with PrismaNG, the Prisma Megamix
    software (driver/audio/PrismaMegamixNG.lha), and in a package of its
    own.
  * A screen of 64 colours or more: AGA, or a graphics card. On a screen
    with fewer PrismaRec shows Deck '84 instead.
  * On PAL or NTSC hires, whose pixels are half as high as they are wide,
    PrismaRec uses the deck's second set (Soft) by itself.
  * The words on the decks are printed in helvetica, and Black '80s' in
    times as well: fonts every Workbench has in FONTS:.
  * About 650 KB of disk space a deck, 3.9 MB for all six. Setting a deck
    up takes some seconds on a slower machine; a small window shows how
    far it has come.


INSTALLATION

Double-click Install. It looks for PrismaRec where its Installers put it
-- the Prisma drawer (the PrismaNG Installer), SYS:Tools/PrismaRec
(PrismaRec's own package) -- and copies the decks into the drawer Skins
beside PrismaRec, making Skins if there is none.

  * Novice: all six decks, into the PrismaRec it found. Without one it
    stops and says so.
  * Intermediate and Expert: it asks for PrismaRec's drawer (offering the
    one it found) and which decks you want.

By hand: copy the deck drawers you want from Files/Skins into the drawer
Skins beside PrismaRec -- one drawer a deck, as many as you like.

PrismaRec looks into Skins when it starts: quit a PrismaRec that runs and
start it again. Then choose the deck in Settings > Display (Einstellungen
> Aussehen in German), or start PrismaRec with SKIN= and the deck's
drawer, such as SKIN=D90. A deck that cannot be used is left out of the
list; chosen by name, PrismaRec says why.

To remove a deck, delete its drawer from Skins.


HISTORY

1.0 - first release