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- Short: Programmer's picture converter. AGA supported.
- Type: gfx/conv
- Author: mortene@idt.unit.no
- Uploader: mortene@idt.unit.no
-
- PicCon is short for Picture Converter. This is a programmer's utility for
- saving pictures, or parts of pictures, in one of several RAW-formats.
-
- The advantages of PicCon over other similar utilities is that it's:
-
- * System-friendly (dump that Kefrens IFF-converter!)
-
- * AGA-compatible (up to date, the only one which is)
-
- * handles all modes correctly, including HAM6, HAM8, EHB and dual playfields
-
- * Uses datatypes for loading of pictures (picturefiles can be in any
- format which you've got the datatype to (like JPEG's and GIF's in addition
- to the IFF-format))
-
- * Can load pictures of any size, as long as you've got the memory it takes
- (tested on bitmaps from 20x20 to 1440x5292)
-
- * Can save palettes as 4-bits, 8-bits, 32-bits or copperlists (both OCS/ECS
- and AGA supported) + more
-
- * Has RAW save in many formats, including chunky mode, blitterlines, AGA-
- sprites, workbench icons ++
-
- Cut out from the program history:
- .
- .
- v1.05:
- - included option to frame parts of picture with fixed-size "box"
- - added option to save frame(s) as workbench icon
- v1.06:
- - improved code on saveoperations (5x faster on bitplanes,
- interleaved, wbicons and blittermasks, 10x faster planar to
- chunky conversion)
- - removed major bug in menuhandling (setting several options by
- clicking left mousebutton while holding down right button now
- works)
- - removed a "bug" in the demoversion which made it impossible to
- save any palettes at all ("Save as 4-bits" and "Save as LoadRGB4"
- should work in the demoversion, only AGA-specific modes are left out)
- - removed some minor bugs
- .
- .
-
- This is a demoversion. It is partially crippled, as I've removed the code for
- saving of any AGA specific graphics (you can save OCS/ECS bitmaps and palettes).
- The requested sharewarefee is $15 (or an equal amount in any other currency,
- cash only).
- Be aware that you need KS3.0 or later to use PicCon, as this program uses the
- datatypes.library.
-
- Check it out!
-
- Contact the author at: mortene@idt.unit.no
-
- ..or snailmail: Morten Eriksen
- Jonsborgv. 18
- 7563 Malvik
- NORWAY
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-