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- Short: ILBM/ANIM/GIF/JPEG/DataTypes viewer
- Type: gfx/show
- Uploader: CTHULHU@Belgium.EU.net
- Author: nico@augfl.be (Nico Francois)
-
- PPShow was written to complement one of my other utilities, PowerPacker (a
- command and data cruncher). It is used to show normal IFF ILBM files or ILBM
- files crunched with PowerPacker. The decrunching is done automatically so the
- user doesn't have to know if a file is crunched or not. From version 3.0
- PPShow will now also play standard Opcode 5 animations. The ANIM Opcode 5
- format is used by most ANIM generating programs, including DPaint IV.
-
- From version 4.0 on PPShow also plays ANIM Opcode 7 and ANIM Opcode 8
- animations. It will also show GIF, JPEG and IFF24 bit pictures. If your
- Amiga doesn't have the color capability to display a GIF (ECS machines) PPShow
- will show the GIF in 16 grayscales. JPEGs and IFF24 pictures will be shown in
- HAM8 or in HAM6 (if your Amiga doesn't support HAM8).
-
- ***************************************************************************
- VERSION 4.0
-
- PPShow now supports ANIM Opcode 7 and Opcode 8 anims. These are _MUCH_
- faster animation formats than ANIM Opcode 5, especially the longword
- versions. PPShow does _not_ (yet) support ANIM 7 or ANIM 8 files
- without a BODY chunk in the first frame.
- Uses asynchronous I/O to read non-powerpacked files. Much faster!
- Supports datatypes (if available), use the new DATATYPES switch to force
- datatypes use.
- PPShow will now also show IFF 24-bit pictures, GIFs and JPEGs. Thanks
- to Rafael D'Halleweyn for writing the IFF24 parsing/decoding and
- 24bit to HAM rendering routines.
- If the file requester is used PPShow will keep going back to it until
- it is canceled.
- File requester will now open with a size about equal to the full height
- of the screen it appears on.
- Multi-selection in now possible in the file requester.
- Greatly improved animation playback memory requirements. No longer
- loads pictures or animations in one contiguous memory block. If the
- picture or animation is not crunched with PowerPacker the file will be
- loaded in smaller segments and memory will be allocated when needed.
- No longer supports GIFVIEWER environment variable (removed because of
- builtin GIF and datatypes support).
- Removed 'l' shortcut to load a new picture/animation.
- Removed SHAM, DHAM and DRES support. Added PCHG (Palette CHanGe)
- support for *true* "multi-palette" pictures.
- Mouse is no longer blanked by default. Press 'm' to blank the mouse or
- use the new NOMOUSE switch.
- New SUPER72 command line option and tooltype to force PPShow to use the
- Super72 monitor (Workbench 2.1/3.0 and up only).
- Replaced NOCYCLE switch with CYCLE switch (which does exactly the
- opposite :-)
- Bug fix: ILBM pictures with a mask (stencil) did not load properly.
- Bug fix: JIFFIES 0 was not the fastest playback speed possible.
- Fixed bug in animation routine causing some animations to show rubbish
- during playback.
- Release 1.6 (36.10) of powerpacker.library included.
- Release 2.2a (38.1210) of reqtools.library included.
-
- ***************************************************************************
-
- PPShow 4.0
- Copyright (c) 1991-1994 Nico François
- Additional code by Rafael D'Halleweyn
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 632 282 55.3% 16-Feb-94 22:58:26 PPShow.info
- 1566 615 60.7% 31-Jan-94 18:12:12 PPShow/Install
- 705 353 49.9% 16-Feb-94 22:58:26 PPShow/Install.info
- 6128 4144 32.3% 28-Sep-93 21:53:48 PPShow/libs/powerpacker.library
- 41728 27364 34.4% 30-Jan-94 17:41:02 PPShow/libs/reqtools.library
- 66088 38411 41.8% 17-Feb-94 20:41:24 PPShow/PPShow
- 25228 9164 63.6% 17-Feb-94 20:43:42 PPShow/PPShow.doc
- 447 237 46.9% 16-Feb-94 22:58:26 PPShow/PPShow.doc.info
- 1129 435 61.4% 16-Feb-94 22:58:26 PPShow/PPShow.info
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- 143651 81005 43.6% 20-Feb-94 18:53:02 9 files
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