TITLE
VERSION
RELEASE DATE
AUTHORS
Frank Mariak (fmariak@chaosengine.ping.de)
Thomas G.Sontowski (marvin@sub.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de)
DESCRIPTION
CyBERgraphics supports:
Picasso II
Spectrum
Piccolo
Domino
Retina Z3 BLT
Piccolo SD64
The cybergraphics system was designed to define an independant graphics
standard for graphics boards. We also wanted to continue our development
of workbench emulations. We could include all our knowledge of about 3
years of gfx board software development (wb-emulation of visiona, domino,
picasso and now the cybervision64).
Cybergraphics is based on hardware dependant monitor drivers and hardware
independant libraries. This has some advantages: Bug fixes in the
workbench emulation or speed optimizations is of benefit for ALL gfx
boards that are supported by the cybergraphics system. There is no third
like XpERT or Village-Tronic inbetween developers and users. That
guarantees bug fixes and continued development of the software in the
future. cybergraphics allows using of 15/16/24 screens independant of the
used color model. You are able to use the cybergraphics.library functions
to modify this screens. Using graphics.library functions is currently not
possible but this may change in one of the next releases.
Cybergraphics will also be the standard workbench emulation for the soon
coming (April 95) Cybervision64 by Advanced Systems&Software. (of course
including drivers for diverse graphics programs, screen promoters and much
more).
Right now (6.4.95) there are drivers for Maxon Cinema,Real 3D, ADPro,
AmaxIV, PhotoWorx, Emplant, ImageFX and Photogenics available. There is
also a picture viewer called CyberView which can be found on AmiNet.
Revision V40.49 (changes since 40.47)
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- changed the way ReadPixel() works on non clut screens.
MatchPenColour now scans palette in reverse order in order
to fix some problems.
- CygnusED EOF marker is now shown correctly
- pctask text modes now show up correctly under cybergraphics
(inverse text before)
- fixed jam2 line pattern bugs
- fixed "pointer gets square" bug when screen was dragged down
too far. Some machines even crashed ......
(- added faster text output ) <- disabled in 40.49 (to be revised)
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Minimum requirements to run cybergraphics
1) One of the following boards
- Domino
- Picasso II in linear mode (! not segmented !)
- Piccolo Z2/Z3 or
- Piccolo SD64
- GVP Spectrum
- RetinaZ3
- CyberVision64
2) Kickstart 3.x
3) 68020 or higher
4) 2 MB of fast memory
HOST NAME
Aminet FTP servers, like ftp.netnet.net
DIRECTORY
FILE NAME
PRICE
Shareware Version - Free
Registered Version - 50 DM - in cash (or) DM 50 - Eurocheque
$35 US - in cash
$40 US - Foreign cheque
Please see the Bestellformular or Orderform
DISTRIBUTABILITY
It is allowed to distribute cybergraphics on any data medium and to make
it available on bulletin boards or other network compounds if the orginal
directory structure will be kept.
It is of course allowed to distribute these files in a packed archive
file. It is also allowed to levy copy charges for the distribution on
floppy disks or CD-ROMs, as long as it has stated clearly for the user
that he has not payed for the share fee, hereby. It is not allowed to
copy, distribute or generate registered versions.
Cybergraphics must NOT be included or used in commercial products unless
by written permission from the authors. Permission for Phase5 to
distribute this program together with their graphics board CyberVision 64
is hereby given.
Cybergraphics must NOT be used on any machine which is used for the
research, development, construction, testing or production of weapons or
other military applications. This also includes any machine which is used
for training persons for *any* of the above mentioned purposes.
(C) Copyright 1994-1995 by Thomas Sontowski & Frank Mariak