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- Short: Programmer's converter. AGA support.
- Type: gfx/conv
- Author: mortene@stud.unit.no
- Uploader: mortene@stud.unit.no
-
- PicCon is short for Picture Converter. This is a programmer's utility for
- saving pictures, or parts of pictures, in one of several RAW-formats.
-
- The advantages of PicCon over other similar utilities is that it's:
-
- * System-friendly (dump that Kefrens IFF-converter!) and heavily bugtested
- (no Enforcer or Mungwall hits found on last betatest run)
-
- * AGA-compatible, includes saveformats for AGA sprites, HAM8 etc
-
- * handles all modes correctly, including HAM6, HAM8, EHB and dual playfields
-
- * Uses datatypes for loading of pictures (picturefiles can be in any
- format which you've got the datatype to (like JPEG's and GIF's in addition
- to the IFF ILBM-format))
-
- * Can load pictures of any size, as long as you've got the memory it need
- (tested on bitmaps from 20x20 to 1440x5292 pixels)
-
- * Can save palettes as 4-bits, 8-bits, 32-bits or copperlists (both OCS/ECS
- and AGA supported) + more
-
- * Has RAW save in many formats, including chunky mode, blitterlines, AGA-
- sprites, workbench icons ++
-
- Cut out from the program history:
- .
- .
- v1.07:
- - fixed many small bugs and quirks (as usual)
- - now perfect handling of the smallest bitmaps (e.g. DPaint-
- Brushes)
-
- v1.08:
- - included option to save data as linkobject
- - included loading of raw- and IFF-palettes
- - option to save palette as IFF was added
- - new imagesave format; IFF
- - raw savefiles now have frameinformation in the commentfield
- - loading of RAW images and WorkBench icons implemented
- - now possible to save multiple sprites in one go
-
- v2.00:
- - removed bug that sometimes caused crash upon exit
- - paletterequester
- - option to iconify PicCon added
- - fixed a bug that made it difficult to specify memorytype and
- external definition name on palette linkobject files
- - no longer needs datatypes.library to be present
- - IFF ILBM loading without datatypes.library
- - IDCMP_VANILLAKEY - no need to hold right Amigakey when using
- hotkeys any longer (more like DPaint ;-)
- - now saves WBicons at any width (don't have to be multiples of
- 16 pixels)
- - fixed icontype bug on icons that use drawerstructures
- - no longer needs iffparse.library to be present
- - added option to save frames with extra blitterwords attached
- either left or right (or both) for easy blittershift operations
- - added option to save chunky images in packed format
- - added option to load raw chunky images in packed format
- - quick automatic framegrabs with less userinteraction is now
- possible ("Grab frame")
- - image and palette saveformats displayed in titlebar at all times,
- along with the coordinates of the framebox
- - new saveoption: Grids (nice for saving e.g. 100s of blocks of
- graphical datas for maptiles/spriteframes/...)
- - functions to compress pens and remove superfluous bitplanes added
- - conversion: EHB --> 64 colors normal
- - added control of systempens (all menus/requesters/gadgets should
- be fully visible on all but the most extreme palettes (like all
- paletteentries having e.g. the same value))
- - new autoscan feature
- - added option to save data as Pascal sourcecode
- - made more functional demoversion
- .
- .
-
- This is a demoversion. Two non-essential features are missing, and the
- program will exit after two saves.
-
- The requested sharewarefee is $15 (or an equal amount in any other currency,
- cash only).
-
- Be aware that you need KS3.0 or later to use PicCon, as this program uses the
- datatypes.library.
-
- Check it out!
-
- Contact the author at: mortene@stud.unit.no
-
- ..or snailmail: Morten Eriksen
- Jonsborgv. 18
- 7563 Malvik
- NORWAY
-
-