Designing with PrintMaster Plus on a Commodore 64

[@RacerX-]

Awesome. You hit the mark. I used The PrintShop for C64 and later Mac. I also used Print Master Plus for the Amiga which I liked a lot. I still have it in box someplace around here. Nice video this is a great overview for people that weren't there or that want to recall some good memories making grandma dot matrix cards.

[@BasicBitesCA]

Thank you very much! Good memories indeed. The Amiga is foreign to me, but I imagine its version was more powerful. The C64 port is prominently missing the ability to import more borders and fonts, for example. In an alternate timeline, I've sometimes wondered what PrintMaster Plus for the C128 would have looked like. -- JC

[@chris-do]

Great video. In 1986, shortly after i had my Commodore 128, I was lucky enough to also get an MPS 1500C printer and a suitable "Centronics Interface to serial port". I printed nice big banners and calendars with Printmaster Plus. That was fascinating to me even back then. Later I did my homework for school with the PAGEFOX module from Scanntronik. This was about as expensive as a 1541 II floppy drive, but with it all the options for a professional page design - including "what you see is what you get" function were possible

[@BasicBitesCA]

Thank you very much! The Commodore 1000 series printers are much more capable than the 800 series, although the older ones have a certain charm to them. :) I've heard of Pagefox -- and I understand the manual has been translated to English -- but I have yet to stumble across the CRT file to be able to play around with it. -- JC

[@SchardtCinematic]

Great Channel! I used to use The Print Shop all the time as a kid. In middle school other students who were running for class president, secretary and etc. Paid ne 50 cents to make them signs to hang up through the school.

[@BasicBitesCA]

Thank you! It sounds like you got a head start on the era of hiring computer graphics designers. 😁 -- JC

[@davecool42]

I'm also Canadian and feel the passing of the Queen. Graphic design is all about working in the limitations of the artform and you are a master at expressing that with PrintMaster Plus.

[@BasicBitesCA]

That is quite the compliment! Thank you, fellow Canadian. 🇨🇦 -- JC

[@jdryyz]

Thank you for the video. I used both programs back in the day. On an unrelated note, do you have any more info on your capture device? My first impression is that it does a fine job. I did see your specific short video on it but was wondering if you could provide a link.

[@BasicBitesCA]

My pleasure; thank you for watching. KZbin tends to dislike links, but you'll find the device if you search for Hauppauge USB-Live2. Myself and others have had issues trying to get it to reliably capture PAL, but it has worked very well for me with all of my NTSC machines. Much of the quality is due to the fact that I'm capturing from S-Video, and not Composite. -- JC

[@bjrnen8505]

Just a question.. I don't know anything about the program but could you (if you so wanted) place to angels to the right and then choose to reverse them? I imagine that option is a mirror effect. Then in the layout option you move the now left facing angels to the right and then add two more angels to the left? I'm only using the angels as an example. . Will the program give you such edit options?

[@BasicBitesCA]

I see what you mean. Interesting question! You cannot flip or mirror a graphic within your publication. You *CAN*, however, fire up the Drawing Pad from the Main Menu, flip a graphic, and then save the reversed graphic. The problem you would then run into is that you are limited to 2 images, and the reversed angel would be a 3rd image. So, you would create 2 posters, and put your paper through the printer twice -- or just print the reversed angels separately, and then paste them onto your main publication. Your question is a perfect example of why multiple passes (or physical cutting and pasting) were so often needed when creating a master document! :-) -- JC

[@cairsahrstjoseph996]

I used the original Print Master in the '90s. What's "Print Shop" ? : )

[@rudyiraheta80]

print shop is similar to printmaster plus

[@gaborm4767]

29:50 How did you go back to text editor from preview?

[@BasicBitesCA]

The up arrow key (not cursor up, but up arrow ⬆️) will take you back from Preview to continue editing. -- JC

[@gaborm4767]

Thank you, It is caret ^ in c64online emulator.

[@braillynn4903]

Where can you get the data disks with the additional art for this program?

[@BasicBitesCA]

The C64 Preservation Project 10th Anniversary Collection -- which you can find on the Internet Archive -- includes disk images for PrintMaster, PrintMaster Plus, PrintMaster Art Gallery I, and a couple chapters of the Epyx Graphics Scrapbook. -- JC

[@braillynn4903]

@@BasicBitesCA Thank you for the info!

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@braillynn4903 i have printmaster plus on ms-dos

[@rudyiraheta80]

the computer graphic changed

[@BasicBitesCA]

What graphic changed to what where? :) -- JC

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@BasicBitesCA the computer graphic on the original printmaster plus was changed on the 2.0 version

[@BasicBitesCA]

@@rudyiraheta80 Oh, I see! I don't think I know what the 2.0 graphic looks like. I've come across mentions of PrintMaster 2.0 for the IBM PC, but never the Commodore 64. If they *did* make a 2.0 version for the C64, I want it! :) -- JC

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@BasicBitesCA i got all the loteria cards for the 2 decks

[@rudyiraheta80]

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