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RELiCVu v. 1.91
coded by
Greater Evil
layout by
Illusion²
I. The Definition.
RELiCVu is RELiC's nifty little Ansi viewer. It contains most
of the features of the larger viewers, yet it is still simple and
comfortable. Among these swell features are:
■ 4 different resolution modes.
■ Scrollback in every video mode.
■ On-the-fly SAUCE definition loading.
■ Full path/filespec switching support.
■ Support for Ansimation codes
■ Neato interface. And some other stuff.
II. The What's New Section.
Well, a few new things have cropped up in this month's viewer.
First and foremost, you can now view ansis in 640x480x16 scrolling
VGA mode. Next, at the advice of Rad Man of ACiD, the viewer now
supports Tasmaniac's SAUCE (Standard Architecture for Universal
Comment Extensions). I shall not repeat the specifications here,
but more information is available in the ACiD View documentation.
Anyways, I also revamped the path parser, so path changing
(espescially drive changes) will now work a little cleaner. It may
be a little picky, so "rephrase" your path if it you have troubles
with it. Next, an 'autoscroll' option was added to the interface.
In this mode the ansi will automatically scroll when selected.
Disabling autoscroll will display the first page and let you scroll
through it. This can also be a speedier alternative when using the
VGA modes. Finally, a few minor changes were made to the other
interface options. If an option appears dark gray, then it does not
have any effect in the current viewing mode, and cannot be updated.
-=-
Command summary:
F1 - Help - displays a brief summary of commands.
F2 - Select viewing speed - determines how long RELiCVu will delay
between each character. This option is only available in
Ansimation mode. The speeds are as follows:
Presto - fastest, Allegro - medium fast, Andante - medium slow,
Adagio - slower still, and Largo - pathetically slow.
F3 - Resolution - allows user to select display mode. These
modes include:
80x25 text, scrollback, ansimation
80x50 text, scrollback, ansimation
320x200x256 MCGA, scrollback, ansimation
640x480x16 VGA, scrollback.
F4 - Path - allows user to change directories and/or file mask. The
file list will be updated accordingly. The default mask is
"*.REL". The mask is also specifiable via commandline; e.g.,
"RELICVU *.ANS" will automatically find files with the ANS
extension.
F5 - Ansimation mode - turns off scrollback and displays all
ansimation sequences.
F6 - Autoscroll - determines whether RELiCVu will initially scroll
through ansis or whether the user gets the priviledge.
Autoscroll defaults to on.
,,Pgup,Pgdn - The arrow keys are used to scroll through the file
list or a prompt to highlight an item for selection.
When displaying an ansi, these may also be used to
scroll back through it.
[Enter] - Selects highlighted file for display or updates chosen
option.
-=-
If you found a bug in this program, or have any suggestions or
comments, please leave Greater Evil private E-mail on Heretic
Asylum, (404)947-2500. Be sure to give an exact description of the
bug, the situation in which it occured, and, if possible, upload the
offending Ansi.
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