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- The following details all changes made to PCX2EXE since version 1.12.
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- 12.10.93 Ver 1.44 : Improvement - optimised startup code & tweaked other
- bits, saving 200-250 bytes on most stub files.
-
- Improvement - The old STUB02 and STUB05 files have been
- replaced by a single STUB02.EXE, which handles both
- full and smaller than full screen 320 x 200 x 256 colour
- files, and does it several times more quickly.
-
- Change - the four fractal images previously included as
- part of the SHOW demo have been replaced by files
- SLIDE1.EXE, SLIDE2.EXE, and SLIDE3.EXE, to reduce the
- size of the final archive by about 60K.
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- 7.10.93 Ver 1.43 : Bug fix - The palette routine for 800 x 600 images would
- occasionally result in some distorted colours.
-
- Bug fix - Fixed a STUPID bug which prevented PCX2EXE
- converting a PCX file stored in a root directory ....
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- Improvement - PACKPCX now displays the file size both
- before and after compression, and the percentage by
- which the file size was reduced.
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- Improvement - P2E, SCALEPCX and PACKPCX now accept
- wildcards in their command line arguments.
-
- Improvement - P2E now checks to see that the file to
- be converted really is a PCX file ....
-
- Improvement - SCALEPCX has been completely re-written;
- it's now much faster, and works on all the images the
- other utilities can handle.
-
- Change - All files now share the same date and time.
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- 29.9.93 Ver 1.42 : New file - STUB06.EXE displays 320 x 400 x 256 colour
- images on any register-compatible VGA system.
-
- New file - STUB07.EXE displays 360 x 480 x 256 colour
- images on any register-compatible VGA system.
-
- New file - STUB04.EXE now sets 800 x 600 x 16 colour
- mode on most SVGA systems, without requiring VESA
- compatibility ( as previously ).
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- New file - STUB04a.EXE is the old, VESA-only STUB04.EXE.
- This is retained as it using it produces smaller
- files.
-
- Change - PCX2EXE.HLP, which only contained a subset
- of the PCX2EXE.DOC file anyway, was removed.
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- 28.9.93 Ver 1.41 : Bug fix - CHVESA incorrectly displayed the minor
- version number one place to the left, i.e. version
- 1.02 was displayed as 1.2.
-
- Bug fix - PACKPCX was missing the first colour in the
- palette, with strange results if it wasn't black ...
-
- Bug fix - STUB03.EXE, the EGA 640x350x16 host file,
- had been accidentally replaced with a version of the
- VESA stub.
-
- Improvement - STUB02.EXE is now optimised specifically
- for full screen 256 colour files, and is more than twice
- as fast as before.
-
- New file - STUB05.EXE handles 256 colour files of other
- than 320 x 200 resolution.
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- 24.9.93 Ver 1.40 : New file - PACKPCX.EXE, optimises 256 colour PCX files
- of any resolution, can reduce file size by 20% plus.
- The greatest gains are on complex scanned images using
- lots of different colours.
- P2E altered to call PACKPCX whenever it is asked to
- compress a 256 colour file.
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- New file - ScalePCX.EXE reduces a 256 colour image of
- up to 640 x 480 resolution to to 320 x 200, so that it
- can be viewed on any VGA or MCGA monitor.
- P2E altered to call ScalePCX when appropriate.
-
- New file - AboutPCX.EXE displays information on any
- PCX file.
-
- New file - STUB04.EXE permits the display of 800 x 600
- 16 colour PCX files on VESA compatible systems.
-
- New file - CHKVESA.EXE can be used to see if a system
- is VESA compatible and can use STUB04 files.
-
- Improvement/bug fix - STUB02.EXE, the 320 x 200 x 256
- colour host file, now correctly displays files smaller
- than full screen size. It's also optimized to be about
- 300 bytes smaller ( compressed size ) than before.
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- 16.9.93 Ver 1.31 : Optimisation - tweaked the stub file code, reduced size
- when compressed by DIET by about 100 bytes.
-
- Improvement - SHOW.EXE now has three new command line
- switches, to make image display smoother.
- /NOTEXT disables the return to text mode, /NOCLS
- avoids clearing the screen between images, and
- /NOBLANK avoids the screen blanking that normally
- occurs when an image is displaying.
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- 14.9.93 Ver 1.30 : Improvement - New P2E and new stub files now permit any
- size of PCX file to be turned into an EXE file. Eureka !
- Modified PCX2EXE.DOC and PCX2EXE.HLP accordingly.
-
- New file - FILELIST.DOC, lists every file in the PCX2EXE
- package and gives a one-line description of its purpose.
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- Ver 1.20 : New program - GET-PCX, a screen grabber that saves most
- screen types into a PCX file. Additionally, saves a text
- mode screen to disk ( optionally in a Basic-compatible
- BLOAD format ).
-
- New file - HISTORY.DOC.
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- Ver 1.12 : Initial shareware version. No PCX files above about 60k
- can be converted.
-