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From: teler@cs.huji.ac.il (Eyal Teler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
Subject: REVIEW: FastJPEG, version 1.0
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Date: 2 Mar 1994 16:35:25 GMT
Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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Keywords: graphics, viewer, JPEG, freeware
PRODUCT NAME
FastJPEG, version 1.0
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
JPEG viewer, with ECS (HAM) and AGA (HAM8) versions.
This program was provided on the coverdisk of Amiga Computing
Magazine, issue 71, March 1994. See my review of this magazine elsewhere
in the comp.sys.amiga.reviews archives.
AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION
Name: Christophe Feck
Address: TowerSystems
Balbierstrasse 6
D-67663 Kaiserslauten
Germany
E-mail: feck@informatik.uni-kl.de
LIST PRICE
Freeware
SPECIAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
HARDWARE
The AGA chipset and a 68020 or higher CPU are needed for the
AGA version. ;-)
The program will work with the old graphics chip set (OCS),
contrary to what the magazine claims.
SOFTWARE
Workbench 2.0 or higher recommended, but not necessary. Some
features are missing when working with 1.3 - pictures larger
than the screen cannot be fully displayed (they scroll with
2.0) and wildcards cannot be used in command line.
COPY PROTECTION
None.
MACHINE USED FOR TESTING
Amiga 500, 1MB Chip RAM, 2MB Fast RAM, OCS
Kickstart 1.2, Workbench 1.3, ARP
Fujitsu 100MB SCSI drive in A590
INSTALLATION
Just copy your desired version to where you want it (it has an icon
you can drag).
REVIEW
What can I say? It's a JPEG viewer, and it's quite fast. The
picture quality is also not bad. I tested FastJPEG with a few pictures and
was quite satisfied with its output. It does dithering, and in interlaced
mode it halves the width of the picture and applies smoothing. The results
are usually good, although not as good as a dedicated picture converter
could achieve.
Here are some timings I took. The pictures were all loaded from the
RAM: disk. The timings are for a 7MHz 68000, of course.
Picture size Time (minutes:seconds, timed with my watch)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
276x212 0:28
415x473 1:04
646x737 2:45 (picture not fully displayed)
DOCUMENTATION
Quite a lot of documentation for such a small program. There's very
little you really need to know, but it's all described in detail.
LIKES AND DISLIKES
I like the speed and quality. This is a very useful program for
checking out JPEGs. I didn't like that some features were not available on
my 1.3 machine, but I see this as my fault for not upgrading.
COMPARISON TO OTHER SIMILAR PRODUCTS
The JPEG viewer I had before, VJPEG, is almost four times the size of
FastJPEG, and takes more than four times longer to display a picture. The
quality of pictures from FastJPEG is also usually better, because of the
dithering. This is why VJPEG is no longer on my hard disk, and FastJPEG is.
BUGS
None that I could find, not that I tried to find any.
VENDOR SUPPORT
I understand that this program is continually updated. I didn't try
to contact the programmer.
WARRANTY
Coverdisk replacement by the magazine.
CONCLUSIONS
If you collect pictures, and need some way to view JPEGs before you
convert them, then look no further than this program. I give FastJPEG 9 out
of 10.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Copyright 1994 Eyal Teler. All rights reserved.
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