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"Absolutly Commercial Free!"
■ Version O.99b ■
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██ ▓ Coded By : SiDS ██ ▒
██ ▒ Design By : The artist formerly ██ ▒
██ ▒ known as Shihear ██ ▒
██ ▒ Kallizad (TafkaSk) ██ ▒
██ ▒ RIP By : Cap'n Crunch ██ ▒
██ ▒ Beta Testers : Sexual Chocolate ██ ▒
██ ▒ Wandering Maruder ██ ▒
██ ▒ Sulfuric Acid ██ ▒
██ ▒ Silent Slaughter ██ ▒
██ ░ Dox Redone By : Killean & TafkaSk ██ ▒
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┌──────────────┐
── █▓ Introduction █▓ ─-
└──────────────┘
We are PROUD to reintroduce you to what is probably the best Viewer that the
scene has yet to see, TRiBE ViEW! TV is *NOT* an "ANSi Viewer", nor was it
intended to be. Many months of hard work put into the coding by SiDS, TV was
originally MAGiCViEW, and briefly became BLOODViEW. With some assistance in
design and layout by The artist formerly known as Shihear Kallizad, it has
clearly become *THE* Viewer, for all your viewing needs. No more using THIS
Viewer for ANSi, THAT Viewer for RIPs, the OTHER for GIF's or PCX's. Today,
all you need is TV for all of that AND many new and innovative things you
can't find ANYWHERE else. TV does things NO other Viewers can do while ALSO
doing almost EVERYTHING they can do, much of the time BETTER then even they
do it. You MAY find something in one of the other Viewers TV doesn't do, or
doesn't do quite as well. We still feel if you weigh the advantages TV has
over these other Viewers, it will be YOUR Viewer too.
┌──────────┐
── █▓ Features █▓ ─-
└──────────┘
Here is a listing of SOME of TV's current features:
[■] SMOOTH Scrolling Scrollback is ALWAYS on in BOTH Viewer or Reader Modes
[■] Text, 320x200x256, 640x480x16, 640x480x256, 800x600x256 & 1024x768x256
Video Display Resolutions supported that you can change WHILE Viewing
[■] 25 or 50 Line Aspect Ratios available in ALL Resolutions, NOT just Text
[■] Detailed Wide Block Mode available in XGA, VGA and SVGA Resolutions
[■] Greyscale, ANSi Striping and iCEColor in all Modes and Resolutions
[■] Fully Configurable Startup via easy to understand configuration file
[■] Fully Functional Command Line usage of ALL appropriate commands
[■] ANS, RIP, PCX, GIF and BIN File Formats all fully supported throughout
[■] ANSimations of ANY size compatable with ALL Modes in ALL Resolutions
[■] Unlimited LENGTH .BIN file format support in Text & XGA Resolutions
[■] TWO Menu Types: 10 Filenames with SAUCE or 50 Filenames ONLY (No SAUCE)
[■] And Much, MUCH, *MUCH* more. . .
┌────────────┐
── █▓ Comparason █▓ ─-
└────────────┘
The following is a refrence chart of the various popular viewers that have
atleast tried to bring something innovative or different to the table for
the viewing of ANSi's or other graphic formats. This should allow you to
do a simple comparason with relative ease. We feel this also shows you
just who *IS* on the cutting edge, ahead in the so called "Viewer Wars".
┌─[Key]───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ TV = TRiBE View v0.99b, XV = iCE's MultiView v1.0b, ACiD = ACiDView v2.02, │
│ KV = iCE's Krystal View v1.1, GV = Gothic View v1.0, UNi = UNiON's UNiView │
│ v0.99b, DARK = DARKView v2.10, NV = NATiON View v1.0 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│ TV │ XV │ ACiD │ KV │ GV │ UNi │ DARK │ NV
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
Viewing Modes Available│ 24 │ 14 │ 7 │ 4 │ 3 │ 4 │ 4 │ 3
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
Change while viewing? │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
Max Files Displayable │ 50 │ 15 │ 6 │ 30 │ 12 │ 6 │ 10 │ 8
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
Command Line Support? │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
Multitasking Aware? │ Yes │ NO │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
SAUCE Supported? │ Yes │ NO │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ Yes │ Yes │ NO
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
ANSimation Supported? │ Yes │ NO │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
.RIP Supported? │ Yes │ NO │ Yes │ NO │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
.PCX Supported? │ Yes │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
.GIF Supported? │ Yes │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
.FLI Supported? │ NO │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
.BIN Supported? │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ Yes
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
Slideshow Viewing? │ Yes │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ Yes
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
"Smooth" scrolling? │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ Yes │ NO │ Yes
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
Greyscale Viewing? │ Yes │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ Yes
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
ASCii (Hidden) Viewing?│ Yes │ Yes │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ Yes
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
iCEColor Supported? │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ Yes
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
Wide/Full Block VGA? │ Yes │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
BAUD Rate Emulation? │ Yes │ NO │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
Variable Speeds? │ NO │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes │ Yes
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
Mouse Support? │ Yes │ NO │ Yes │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ NO │ NO
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
Fully Configurable? │ Yes │ NO │ Yes │ NO │ NO │ Yes │ NO │ NO
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
Size of .EXE File │ 190k │ 55k │ 130k │ 50k │ 70k │ 60k │ 40k │ 90k
───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────┼──────
[Note: TV's filesize does not include the external .BGI drivers. They were
removed to free up even more memory and decrease .EXE size. Keep in mind TV
does not compress the majority of itself, which is evident if you PKZIP it,
it's approximately 90k. This is due to overlays, which gain us about 150k
of RAM allowing for even larger ANSi's to be loaded.]
┌───────────────┐
── █▓ The Interface █▓ ──
└───────────────┘
Funtion Keys
Esc KeyPad ┌─────────────────────────────┐
┌────┐ ┌──────┬──────┬──────┬─────┐ │ F1 = Help │
│Exit│ │ Num │ Color│Grey │ - │ ├─────────────────────────────┤
└────┘ │ Lock │ Strip│Scale │ Res │ │ F2 = Change Resolution │
├──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┤ ├─────────────────────────────┤
Tab │ Home │ Up │ Page │ │ │ F3 = Toggle iCEColor │
┌───────────┐ │ │ │ Up │ │ ├─────────────────────────────┤
│File Format│ ├──────┼──────┼──────┤ + │ │ F4 = Color/GreyScale/ASCii │
└───────────┘ │ │ Tag │ │ Res │ ├─────────────────────────────┤
│Left │ File │Right │ │ │ F5 = 25/50 Aspect Ratio │
Enter ├──────┼──────┼──────┼─────┤ ├─────────────────────────────┤
┌─────────┐ │ End │ Down │ Page │ │ │ F6 = Normal/Wide Mode │
│View File│ │ │ │ Down │ │ ├─────────────────────────────┤
└─────────┘ ├──────┴──────┼──────┤Enter│ │ F7 = Viewer/Reader Mode │
│ Wide VGA or │Aspect│ │ ├─────────────────────────────┤
Spacebar │No Bounce BIN│Ratio │ │ │ F8 = Slideshow Toggle │
┌────────┐ └─────────────┴──────┴─────┘ ├─────────────────────────────┤
│Tag File│ │ F9 = Change Baud Rate │
└────────┘ ├─────────────────────────────┤
│ F10 = Change File Mask │
Alt-D: Delete selected File(s) └─────────────────────────────┘
┌───────────────────────┐
── █▓ TV Multi-Tasking Help █▓ ──
└───────────────────────┘
Timesliceing Supported For:
Desq
Windows 3.X
OS/2 2.0
OS/2 2.1+
General:
Recommended Avaible Conventional Memory: 450k to 500k
Recommended Avaible EMS: 200k (not required)
Desq:
Virtualise text/graphix...:[N] (should be the 3rd standard option)
Windows:
If you're having problems with SPEED in display and scrolling, you can
edit your PIF to allow you to skip some of the special effects to gain
noticable SPEED increases. You'll basicly trade off the "smoothness"
of the Page Up/Down and Right/Left .BIN panning for more conventional
"paging".
Advanced Display Options
Monitor Ports: Text...[X]
Emulate Text..........[X]
Misc:
All TEXT graphics are displayed via direct screen writes, thus a
multi-tasker should be configured to allow this. The only problem I have
seen this cause is that TV may still control the screen after switching
windows if it's still drawing something, for example, switching while an
ANSi is still scrolling down.
Palette registers are also accessed in text mode. This can cause problems
with some of the fade routines and grey scaleing if a non-standard text
color set is used.
The BIN display routines use a low level keyboard handler that may take
complete control of the keyboard durring BIN display, thus not allowing
the user to switch windows. This has not occured under Desq or Win 3.1,
but other multi-taskers are still being tested. However, time slicing
routines are still implimented durring BIN display.
┌─────────────────────────────┐
── █▓ .BIN Information by TafkaSk █▓ ─-
└─────────────────────────────┘
Artists have always pissed and moaned about the limitations of ANSi. One of
these limitations has been only 80 columns worth of width. Between ANSIM's
advent of VGA Viewing, with it's wrap mode, and TheDraw's 160 width support,
I've been wanting to push this boundry. Unfortunately, no other coder of no
other viewer from no other group has been able to or BOTHERED to explore the
possibilities of the .BIN format. With THIS version of TV we *NOW* have a
fully functional .BIN Viewer, in both Text and 320x200x256 XGA Mode.
You can use .BIN as easily as you .ANS, really. Simply go into TheDraw, the
ONLY ANSi Editor currently with 160/.BIN support, under the Options submenu,
select Setup Options. The very FIRST option is "Worksheet Width", which you
want to toggle from 80 to 160. You will see the second option, "Worksheet
Depth" go from 100 to 50, which is the current maximum per Page in 160 Mode.
You then draw your ANSi, now with 160 columns. When you're ready to save it
all you do is select (B)inary. If your finished ANSi is going to be longer
than 50 lines, and it probably will be, simply use the same "COPY" Method
you do with .ANS files. (IE: C:\THEDRAW>COPY 1.BIN + 2.BIN 3.BIN)
┌─────────────────────────────┐
── █▓ SiDS Notes on Aspect Ratios █▓ ──
└─────────────────────────────┘
I've been playing with ANSi to VGA interputation for a couple months
now and have talked to a few artists and here's what I've come up with.
When ANSi is drawn there are two distinct looks/aspect ratios, 25 and
50 row modes. In 25 row mode, each charactor is about twice as tall as
it is wide, whereas in 50 row mode, each charactor is about as tall as
it is wide. Thus, an ANSi can look distorted if interpreted wrong. 25
row mode ANSis look squished in 50 row mode and 50 row mode ANSis look
stretched in 25 row mode. The technical term for this is ASPECT RATIO,
the ratio of X:Y for the pixels to form a perfect square. ACiD has
always avoided this issue by supporting just one aspect ratio or an
aspect ratio that is half way between the two. Thus many ANSis look
distorted. Until now, iCE has been the only group to deal with this
issue with any success. I also have heard a lot of compliments about
the wide mode in old ACiDViEWs, so I have included wide modes that
still maintain the correct aspect ratios.
I did not put in the multiple fonts like I had in viewers I've done in
the past, because not only is this somewhat confusing, most fonts cause
distortion upon the ratio. I belive that artists should have control
over the way their work is viewed. Now the fonts are built into the
modes, and the artist has regained complete control.
Questions, comments, bug reports, death threats, need a phycotic
reading or an apathic shoulder:
You can reach me via:
Extreme Prejudice 6O3.598.34O3
Local: Silent Slaughter
Remote: SiDS [TRiBE/UPA]
Lord Heinous
O-7 day art H/P/A/V Quality Warez
TRiBE Member Board ELiTE net
PoW Member Board Crimson net
CoRoSioN SiTE
PHART SiTE
DreadLoc Distro
Belly of the Beast 6O3.PWA.iN94
Local: Sulferic Acid
Remote: The Collector
TopCat
O-14 day warez H/P/A/V
Over a Gig + Tape Requests
PWA Affiliate Board ELiTE net
DREAD Distro Thunder net
DreadLoc Distro
W.A.S.P. Distro
Internet EMail: sids@MV.mv.com <───────────────New Address!!!!
If you like this viewer I would appriciate an ad for Extreme Prejudice.
┌───────────────────┐
── █▓ Last Moment Notes █▓ ──
└───────────────────┘
1) BGI4TV.ZIP contains the external font files for .RIP. They were taken
out because of the commonality of thier use, by RIPTERM, RIPAINT, etc.
The DEFAULT directory for them is C:\TP\BGI but you can put them where
you want. Just go into TV.CFG and edit the FONT DIR option at the end
of the file. This frees up a substantial part of memory, as well as
making the .EXE quite a bit smaller.
2) On the subject of Bugs, we believe there are two, and due to having to
get the Archive out, we didn't have time to correct them. They're minor
and shouldn't cause any major problems, unless you like using the mouse.
(Bug #1: Mouse Cursor will turn off after viewing something and not come
back on. Bug #2: .BIN only works in Text and XGA modes, but the + and -
keys still toggle thru the other higher resoultions, but otherwise cause
no problems.) If you are having a problem with RIP, double check to see
you have the external .CHR files in the right directory (see .CFG file).
We did have a nasty problem with RIP not liking Slideshow occasionally,
but believe it to be squashed. If you experience a problem with RIP and
Slideshow, simply exit the Viewer and don't using Slideshow.
Greetings from SiDS:
TRiBE Members - TRiBE PRiDE! TRiBE PRiDE! TRiBE PRiDE! TRiBE PRiDE!
Other Groups - You're gonna use the SAUCE... eventualy..
Shihear Kallizad - You're the best damn Senior member I've ever seen.
Quazar - Thanx for the help on iRC.
Zodiac - Just tell me when ya want the TPUs <g>. Gonna be a kick ass mag!
The 8th SiN & Chaos Breed - Keep at it...
Maelstrom - For teaching me the practical side of programming.
Sinned Soul - Thanx for the encryption stuff... bit slow with 240K though..
Tasmaniac - Look forward to a challenge...
Mister X - For teaching me to dot my i's
Sexual Chocolate & Wandering Marauder - Thanx for the feedback...
The Hit Man - It's called a back up. Some people do it weekly...
Cap'n Crunch - Thanx for the RiP code
Sulferic Acid - Party on!
Matt Pritchard - Kewl XGA routines! Couldn't have done it without ya!
WPi - Proud to be a member of the class of 98!
ANSiM Fans - Just think of it as ANSiM on steroids...
Beatings from SiDS:
NATiON - Maestro Steve wants a bit 'o glory...
All the Lamers - Go back to sleep...
SAUCE00TRiBE ViEW Documentation TRiBE TRiBE 19940830»GP