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- PowerPC (powerUP) support via licensed SuperView-Library
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-
- [ Please see ReadMe_REGISTER for where to find pricing information ]
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- Concept: loadable PPC-Modules for use with ppc.library V45+ (17.11.98)
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-
- The most time-consuming routines of certain modules of SuperView-Library
- have been ported to native PowerPC code and perhaps will profit a lot
- from the presence of an installed powerUP system.
-
- These "native modules" are located in a new subdirectory of LIBS:
- called "svppc/", with subdirectories for each of SuperView-Library's
- module types.
-
- If any "native modules" are present, these will be used whenever applicable.
- Should none of these modules be available, then this does not matter, since
- the plain 68k code (which may be optimized for a certain 68k CPU, though)
- will be used instead (fallback option).
-
- Note, that SuperView-Library's native modules won't replace any of the
- existing libraries or modules as such - they only do supply specialized
- routines in native code for certain tasks.
-
- When running any PowerPC code, you should have made sure, that there's
- enough RAM on the powerUP board available - at least in an A4000 the
- RAM interface from the CPU card (e.g. A3640) to the mainboard is so
- slow, that even a 68040 could not access Fast RAM with full speed,
- so possibly a PowerPC would suffer from the same problem.
-
- You should take care, that there's still enough "fast" Fast RAM available,
- even if all the libraries and code have been loaded: usually the graphics
- are loaded at last - a 1024x768 graphics in 24 Bit will just take 2.4 MB
- and in a dithered version again around 790 K.
-
- If there's enough "fast" Fast RAM available, you can expect high speed
- increases with most basic operations, especially when internal representation
- conversions do take place.
-
-
- (See the documentation of the single modules for further information.
- PowerUP support usually is marked separately, on top of the
- module documentation.)
-
-
- Availability
- ------------
-
- NONE OF THE PPC MODULES ARE FREEWARE - THEY WON'T APPEAR ON AMINET.
-
- 54 modules (+/-) are made available in a special powerUP PPC plugin
- module package, which e.g. can be bought by registered SuperView/SViewNG/
- SViewII/SViewIV users or will be included with some commercial programs.
-
- Also, there will follow some PPC modules, which will only be available
- for exclusive shipment with some commercial programs (as also are the
- concerned SV modules).
-
- This is high end software, and its development must be financed
- - so you have to pay for it to help ensuring further development.
-
-
- The following modules are available right now:
-
- svdrivers (dir)
- svoperators (dir)
- 24BitToHam_ham6.svm 24BitToHam_ham6quick.svm
- 24BitToHam_ham8.svm 24BitToHam_ham8quick.svm
- AnyTo24Bit_HAM.svm Dither24Bit_floyd.svm
- Blur_24.svm Dither24Bit_ordered.svm
- HilbertDither256_code.svm OptimizePalette_code.svm
- PaletteDither_code.svm RotateFree_24.svm
- RotateFree_8.svm Scale50_Double.svm
- Scale50_Half.svm Sharpen_24.svm
- svobjects (dir)
- 24BitToHam_ham6.svm 24BitToHam_ham6quick.svm
- 24BitToHam_ham8.svm 24BitToHam_ham8quick.svm
- BMP_Decode.svm BMP_Encode.svm
- BMP_Plain.svm DEEP_Decode24.svm
- HJG_Efdpef.svm HJG_Fmdpef.svm
- ILBM_c2p_24.svm ILBM_CBR_Decode.svm
- ILBM_CBR_Encode.svm ILBM_p2c_24.svm
- JPEG_code.svm PBM_Decode.svm
- PBM_Encode.svm PCD_yuv.svm
- PCX_Decode24.svm PCX_Decode4.svm
- PCX_Decode8.svm PCX_Encode24.svm
- PCX_Encode4.svm PCX_Encode8.svm
- PICT_code.svm PNG_code.svm
- RGB8_Decode.svm RGB8_Encode.svm
- Targa_Decode1.svm Targa_Decode16.svm
- Targa_Decode24.svm Targa_Decode8.svm
- TIFF_code.svm WPG_Decode1.svm
- WPG_Decode4.svm WPG_Decode8.svm
- svsupport_c2p.svm svsupport_p2c.svm
-
-
- PLEASE NOTE, THAT NUMBER AND KIND OF THE PPC MODULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGES.
-
-
- Picture Manager professional (PMPro) V5.5 already does
- include these modules, plus additionally the following exclusive PPC
- plugins (for SVOperators that also are exclusive to PMPro):
-
- libs/svppc/svoperators
- Convolve_24.svm DitherFix24_Floyd.svm
- EdgeDetect_Plain.svm ScaleFree_24.svm
- ScaleFree_8.svm
-
-
- PLEASE NOTE, THAT NUMBER AND KIND OF THE PPC MODULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGES.
-
-
- Where to obtain from ?
-
- The PPC plugin modules basically already are part of Picture Manager professional V5.5
- (or any upgrade from earlier versions).
-
- Additionally, the (non-exclusive) PPC modules also can be ordered by
- registered (as well as newly registering) users of SuperView/SViewNG/SViewII.
- or ImageEngineer.
-
- For details, please see the registration form coming with SViewII.
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