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- │ The NOMSSI Viewer Release 1.2 (22.2.94) │
- │ A graphics file viewer for SuperVGA │
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- │ Copyright (c) 1994 by NOMSSI NZALI Jacques Hubert Christian │
- │ All Rights Reserved. │
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-
- Welcome to The NOMSSI Viewer!
-
- This program is a graphics file viewer, that reads and displays images
- stored within files with different formats. The NOMSSI Viewer works with
- raster images, offering support for Windows and OS/2 2.x BMP, GIF, IFF/
- LBM/HAM, PCX, TIFF, TGA and JFIF/JPEG files formats.
-
- This file contains the following information:
-
- - Some features
- - Hardware requirements
- - Licensing agreement
- - Files in distribution
- - Setting up The NOMSSI Viewer
- - Acknowledgement
- - Problems
- - Function keys
- - Disclaimer
- - History
-
- SOME FEATURES
-
- The NOMSSI Viewer includes a multi-window filemanager to locate
- and select files with mouse support, online help and a search
- function that recursively scans directories for image files. The
- scan parses all files and selects those who matches the supported
- file formats specifications, it doesn't just rely on the file
- extension.
-
- The files can be viewed one at a time or selected for a slide show
- with full user control. One can easily generate an array of reduced
- images. All parameters, e.g. screen resolution, monitor gamma,
- image scale etc. may be specified at run-time in a setup dialog.
-
- Once loaded, the images can undergo simple transformations and
- color editing, and then be dumped to a palette color file
- (TIFF, BMP or TGA).
-
-
- HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
-
- The NOMSSI Viewer Release 1.2 should run under DOS 3.3 or higher on
- any IBM PC compatible with 640 Kb memory, 80286 processor and VGA
- adapter or better. The JPEG decoding routines will run only with a
- 80386SX processor or better.
-
- The NOMSSI Viewer detects and uses EMS, XMS or disk space to buffer
- images for slideshows or transformations like rotating or scaling.
- The SVGA chipsets
- Acumos, Ahead, ATI, AL2101, Chips&Tech, Cirrus, Cirrus54,
- Cirrus64, Compaq, Everex, Genoa, HMC, MXIC, NCR, Oak, Paradise,
- Poach, PRIMUS, Realtek, S3, Trident, ET3000, ET4000, UMC,Video7,
- Weitek, Yamaha
- and the VESA extensions should be autodetected, 256 color modes
- are used.
-
- LICENSING AGREEMENT
-
- "The NOMSSI Viewer" is SHAREWARE. It is requested that all users
- comply with the following licensing and registration provisions if
- they use The NOMSSI Viewer on a regular basis. Should you find this
- program useful, register it. You will get the latest release of
- "The NOMSSI Viewer". The user fee for this Software is DM 34,- or
- US$25 (see REGISTER.FRM).
-
- You may copy and distribute verbatim UNMODIFIED copies of these
- Software, in any medium, as long as it remains in its complete form
- with all support files, documentation files, this license agreement
- and the disclaimer of warranty.
- You may charge a distribution fee for the physical act of
- transferring a copy. You may not copy, sublicense, distribute or
- transfer The NOMSSI Viewer except as expressly provided under this
- License Agreement.
- Any attempt otherwise to copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer
- The NOMSSI Viewer is void and your rights to use the program under
- this License agreement shall be automatically terminated. However,
- parties who have received computer software programs from you with
- this License Agreement will not have their licenses terminated so
- long as such parties remain in full compliance.
-
- FILES IN DISTRIBUTION
-
- The archive file contains:
-
- README.NV ; This file
- NV.EXE ; The executable
- NV.HLP ; Online help texts
- NVGER.HLP ; german help texts. Rename it to NV.HLP
- REGISTER.FRM ; register form
- REGISTER.GER ; german register form
- FILE_ID.DIZ ;
-
- PKUNZIP ver 2.04g or higher is needed to 'uncompress' the archive.
-
- SETTING UP THE NOMSSI VIEWER
-
- Create a target directory on your hard drive in which you want to
- install The NOMSSI Viewer. If you want to update from a previous
- version, first remove the config and help files (NV.CFG and NV.HLP)
- from the target directory.
-
- Set the environment variable TEMP to a list of directories to store
- temporary files (i.e. insert SET TEMP=C:\TEMP;C:\ in your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT and reboot). If this variable doesn't exist, the
- current directory is used.
-
- Copy all the files from the archive onto the target directory on
- your hard drive. To start The NOMSSI Viewer, type NV.EXE at DOS
- prompt, your machine configuration (VGA chipset and video memory)
- is automatically detected. You can specify a directory to switch on
- as a parameter in the command line, like
- NV C:\IMAGES\TIF or
- NV . (overwrites your defaults)
- The parameter muss be a valid pathname or it will be ignored.
-
- First press F9 to open the setup window. Use the TAB-key and SHIFT+
- TAB-key to navigate through the items and set your default options.
- Press F1 to get help on the selected field. The file NV.CFG is
- written or updated each time you leave the setup window.
-
- Please refer to the help texts for further information, they are
- available online trough the F1 key. If you still have trouble using
- The NOMSSI Viewer, feel free to send an email to the address below
- (including a valid return path and the program version, actually
- The NOMSSI Viewer 1.2).
-
- If you need a VESA driver, check The Universal VESA VBE, a stand
- alone program Copyright (C) 1993 by Kendall Bennett. It is
- available via ftp from SimTel mirrors (i.e. Oak.Oakland.Edu) as
- /pub/msdos/graphics/UVESAxx.ZIP
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
-
- This program uses
- - The VGADOC package version 3,
- Copyright (c) 1994 by Finn Th¢gersen
- - The JPEG Unit, Copyright (c) 1993 by TBH-Softworx
- - The STREAMS package version 1.5,
- Copyright (c) 1993 by D.J. Murdoch.
- - The OVRUMB Unit 1.0, by Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
- - The HelpFile patch in TVTOYS, by Far Niente Productions
-
- PROBLEMS
-
- - ILBM/HAM files are said to be 64 colors images, they are
- nevertheless displayed correctly.
- - TGA color maped files are said to be TrueColor files
- - Scrolling doesn't work in VGA-mode 320x200 on some chipsets,
- so the "mosaic" will not work well.
- - The bar gauge will not be updated correctly on some files
- - ATI Graphics Ultra Pro, monitor detected as monochrome
-
- FUNCTION KEYS
-
- General
- Alt + Key select an active Option. Press left Alt-key
- *together* with the lit letter.
- (i.e. Alt + S for "SlideShow", Alt + A for
- "Scan", Alt + N for "Name").
- Alt+F3 Close window
- ESC Cancel the current operation.
- Enter Confirm a valid input/selection
- TAB select (highlight) the next field in a
- dialogbox.
-
- Help: F1 Open Helpwindow
- F5 Zoom/restore size of the active helpwindow
- Ctrl+F5 Change the size and/or position of the active
- window
-
- File: F3 Open dialogbox "Load an image file"
- Space bar select (tag/reverse tag) file. Needed for
- Slideshow or for group copy
- Gray + tag all files
- Gray - clear all tags
- Gray x or * reverse all tags
- F10 go to the menubar
- F7 copy file(s)
- Alt+F7 Scan directory trees
- F8 slide show
-
- Options: F9 Open dialogbox "Options"
-
- Tools
- Ins Brightness +
- Del Brightness -
- Home Contrast +
- End Contrast -
- Gray * or x Cycle colors
- Gray ÷ or / Cycle colors backward
- F10 restore original palette
- F2 Save as TIFF- or BMP-file
- Shift+F9 Set EGA Palette
- Ctrl+F9 Set TrueColor Quantization Palette
- F9 Set Grayscale
- Alt+F9 Set Gamma=2,2
-
- F3 scale down (half) (EMS/XMS/disk needed)
- F4 scale to fit page (EMS/XMS/disk needed)
- F5 flip left/right (mirror)
- F6 flip up/down
- Shift+F6 rotate
- F7 copy image to buffer
- F8 restore image from buffer
-
- PgUp/PgDn scroll up/down (slow)
- arrow keys scroll up/down/left/right (fast)
-
- Slideshow: F8
- Space bar freeze image, stop (Mouse right button)
- Enter continue, next image (Mouse left button)
- TAB reverse slideshow direction
- ESC cancel slide show, end
-
-
- DISCLAIMER
-
- Except when otherwise stated in writing, NOMSSI NZALI Jacques
- Hubert Christian, refered hereafter as "The author" and/or other
- parties provide "The NOMSSI Viewer" "as is", without warranty of
- any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited
- to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
- particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and
- performance of "The NOMSSI Viewer" is with you.
-
- In no event unless required by applicable law will The author and/
- or any other party who may redistribute "The NOMSSI Viewer" as
- permited above be liable to you for damages, including any lost
- profits, lost monies, or other specials, incidental or
- consequential damages arising out of the use or the inability to
- use "The NOMSSI Viewer" (including but not limited to loss of data
- or losses sustained by third parties or a failure of the program
- to operate with any picture or any other programs), even if The
- author and/or other party has been advised of the possibility of
- such damages, or for any claim by any other party.
-
- Mere aggregation of another unrelated program with this program on
- a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the
- other program under the scope of these terms.
-
-
- Please feel free to report any problems, suggestions for
- improvements, comments, good or bad, concerning the program or its
- licensing agreement to
-
- MAIL NOMSSI NZALI Jacques Hubert Christian
- Thueringer Weg 3/435
- 09126 Chemnitz
- Germany
-
-
- E-MAIL Internet: nomssi@physikus.physik.tu-chemnitz.de
-
-
- "The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of
- CompuServe Incorporated. GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of
- CompuServe Incorporated."
-
- PC, PC/AT are trademarks, and IBM is a registered trademark,
- of International Business Machines Corporation.
-
- All other products or services mentioned in this manual, including:
-
- Acumos, Ahead, ATI, Chips&Tech, Cirrus, Compaq, Genoa, NCR, Oak,
- Paradise, Poach, PRIMUS, Realtek, S3, VGA, Paradise, Everex,
- Trident, Video 7, Tseng Labs, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, PCX, Windows, OS/2,
- PC Paintbrush, GIF, Compuserve
- are trademarks, registered trademarks, service marks, or
- registered service marks of their respective companies or
- organizations.
-
- We state that we are using the other trademarked names only in an
- editorial fashion, with no intention of infringement of the
- trademark.
-
- HISTORY
-
- 22.2.94 Third public release 1.2
- fixed: DEL-Key problem in 1.1l, aspect scale in Slideshow
- Directories count (Search for files), Validation errors,
- Prefix error, ESC cancel w/o buffering, JFIF GetInfos
- error, View as Hex width
- updated: help, documetation, license agreement
- 16.2.94 release 1.1l - beta
- fixed severe JFIF problem in 1.1k, Save as TGA,
- Slideshow with all open windows
- 14.2.94 release 1.1k - beta
- bugs fixed, i.e. Fit to screen, minor changes in user
- interface (options), Directory as parameter to NV.EXE allowed,
- Delete a supported graphics resolution with DEL
- ?.2.94 1.1j
- 7.2.94 release 1.1i - beta
- some 1.1h bugs fixed: VESA support, Flyod-Steinberg.
- Setup dialogbox revised, controlbox while loading, Save as BMP
- 1.2.94 release 1.1h - beta
- SuperVGA support extended, better LZW error check,
- JPEG display options, Color cycling, some bug fixes,
- internal changes (overlay)
- 18.1.94 release 1.1g - beta
- revisited: GIF error checking, PCX 4 colors, TIFF YCbCr,
- TrueColor dithering, c&t450, non-modal setup dialog
- ?6.1.94 release 1.1f - beta Catalog size can be entered
- 3.1.94 release 1.1e - beta
- better scaling (Catalog, Fit page, standard VGA).
- JFIF load process can be easily canceled.
- 23.12.93 release 1.1d - beta some JFIF bugs fixed
-
- 15.12.93 release 1.1c, small changes made
- (large files, slideshow w/o buffer)
- 13.12.93 The second public release 1.1
- Extended file format support:
- - OS/2 Bitmaps (1.3, 2.x Bitmap Arrays)
- - IFF/LBM with HAM and IFF/PBM
- - TGA file type 3,11
- - PCX 1..8 Bit/Pixel
- - JFIF support
- Slideshow with image array, antialiasing
- edit image: scale to fit page, flip, mirror, rotate,
- uses EMS/XMS/disk, more file management/options,
- some internal changes, speed up
-
- bugs fixed: Auto detect, video switch after 50 lines mode,
- TV bugs, GIF, TIFF bugs, VESA support
- new bugs
- 4.8.93 first public release