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- V2.6:
- Added an info requester at startup and end.
- A slight change in the color cycle stuff:
- When colorcycling the function keys F1-F10 makes
- random color bands. The random values vas choosen
- from the range 0-63 and not 0-255 as it should. fixed.
-
- A slight speed loss..
-
-
- V2.5:
- When saving iff files the screen mode wasn't correct.
- Added "TP's port error" a fractal that came as a slightly
- incorrect port of 386 assembly to 68000 code. Other use
- of the assembly code doesn't exist since it turned out
- to be much slower than the compiled c code.
- HAM8/HAM images can be saved as iff.
-
- V2.4:
- When running batch files the mui interface comes up iconified and the fractal
- screen is opened in the background.
- It is possible to generate HAM8/HAM images with lots of colors when doing
- 3d transformation of images. At the moment the original image has to be rendered
- in HAM/HAM8 in order for it to work.
- Images can now be saved in the iff format. It is activated by saveiff=yes command
- line option or by a menu switch. No need to convert images before joining
- them as a animation.(mkanim is great!) iff.library is used.
- At the moment HAM and HAM8 images can't be saved by fractint.
-
- V2.3:
- Better handling of (ram)disk video modes. After an image is rendered with one
- of these modes it is immediately drawn. Those modes are usefull in some
- cases, for example it takes 16 secs to generate a plasma image with a normal
- screen but only 3 secs with a diskvideo mode!
-
- Say goodbye to the last crash causing bug! (eh um..hopefully!)
- It hasn't crashed on me after that bug got squashed.
- When running par files the info is shown on the type-specifig menu.
-
- V2.1:
- the "save current parameters" didnt work properly, now it does!
- The interfaces are generated dynamically and one type wasn't generated.
- Expect to see some more options on several requesters!
-
- Color cycling 'from value' wasnt used. It caused some unwanted effect on those
- graphics boards! It is fixed now!
-
- The interface generation is improved somewhat. Now the input boxes is all of
- the same size!
-
- Now using reqtools screenmode requester. The Asl screenmode requster was only
- available from 2.1+. Now this program might actually work with 2.04!
-
- The HAM mode didnt work on non AGA. It tried to open a 8 bitplane HAM screen.
- It worked on my AGA machine so I missed that one! Now it opens a 6 bitplane
- screen on non AGA's. After having tested the HAM mode I'm not totally satisfied
- with it. In some cases the colors doesnt come up right after having saved
- it and then viewed it with a giftoham program. To get images equal to those
- on AGA it is best to use a disk video mode.
-
- The cycle colors button wasnt very useful. It is replaced by Load and Save
- palette.
-
- Amigaguide now pops up if you press the Help buttons or press help-key
- when the fractint screen is active.
-
- Some fractals runs 30-40% faster!
-
- The program seems to work ok on some graphics boards, especially those who
- emulates AGA. In order for HAM to work on non AGA machines I added a test
- to check if the machine is aga or not, if it isnt it will open only
- 6 bitplane screens or lower. If this causes problems with those graphics
- boards I added a flag 'force' that forces the program to open 8 bitplane
- screens even if the machine isnt AGA. It may or may not work..
-
- The manual now has a lot of slightly incorrect information since the
- interface is changed to MUI. Some of the "press 'z' to.." isnt likely
- to work!, or may have a different key. The underscored keys in the
- MUI interface are worth trying! Also the autokey features may no longer
- work properly, also as a result of the MUI.
-
- Some of the links in the guide files were incorrect. Some has been fixed.
- Is there a program to automatically check all the links in a guide? Let
- me know if you know of any!
-
- I removed the FASTMEM flag so it may actually work on a computer with
- no fastmem. Expect it to be seriously slow though! Lower memory requirement?
- I have no idea! 2meg? Try and let me know!
-
- When color cycling (shift,alt,ctrl)-F1-10 was supposed to give some nice color
- ranges. Now it does!
-
- Got any bug-reports,suggestions,money.. : please feel free to send them
- to me!
-
- Hint:
- Try out the zoom-box with the page-up and page-down keys. then try
- ctrl + (keypad +) and ctrl - and the zoombox rotates! Great for animations
- with both zooming and rotating!
- also ctrl page-up/down will stretch the zoom box.
- ctrl home/end will shear the box!
- Press 'Help' when using the zoom-box and you will get a list of all the
- options.
-
- TP
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