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- TICO History
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- Ver. Date Comments
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- 1.10 31.3.94 Fixed bug with "Load Palette".
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- Fixed bug with "Batch Process" option which could
- prevent files from being saved.
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- Fixed bug with "Sobel" edge detection on 24-bit files
- which left a blue line on the left side of the image.
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- Modified BMPMAN.EXE to accept DIBs in any format, thus
- adding CLP, WMF and ICO to the import format list.
- Also fixed problem importing some BMP files.
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- Added PCX2PCL program, exports mono PCX files to
- Hewlett-Packard PCL files.
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- Added code to MAKEPCX.EXE to import PCL format files.
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- Improved memory management in low-memory situations.
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- Optimized almost all utilities for size , saving 100K +
- in total.
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- Condensed several individual utilities ( GIF2PCX,
- DCX2PCX, WPG2PCX ) into MAKEPCX.EXE to save space.
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- Split TICO into two parts to ensure the main package
- fits onto a single 720k floppy. The other disk consists
- of additional programs which may be useful, but are
- not required for basic operation.
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- 1.03 1.3.94 Optimized FILTERS.EXE to run a little bit faster,
- especially on 24-bit files.
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- Re-wrote DCX2PCX to be simpler, faster and smaller
- ( 6K instead of 27K ! )
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- Used stub files to make TICO.EXE 10k smaller, and
- freed up approximately 7K of RAM.
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- Fixed bug in XFORMPCX that trashed the palette of
- 16 colour files, when you scaled them.
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- Adapted TIFMAN to accept TIFF previews in EPS files,
- & handle Packbits compression. Made reading files
- more reliable by setting the correct TIFF defaults.
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- Altered the code in the "Open" and "Save As" dialog
- to correct a problem when selecting "File Type".
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- Fixed bug in MAKEPCX.EXE that stopped it working
- at all. Oh dear - I wonder how long that was there ?
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- Fixed bug where RGB/ CMY colour adjusts were treated
- as a percentage rather than an "add-on" figure - so
- adjustments over 100 did not work at all !
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- Fixed nasty bug which could crash your system if using
- "Flip" on a 16 colour file.
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- 1.02 25.2.94 Added import filter for uncompressed ColoRix SCx files.
- I wonder if it works ?
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- Added code permitting the use of wildcards in an import
- filter file specification, i.e. "SC* = RIX2PCX".
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- Fixed bug importing 16 colour BMP files.
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- Added support for use of Handmade Softwares "Image
- Alchemy" utility, a great command-line shareware
- utility that can add formats like EPS, GIF write,
- IFF, LBM, JPG, PCL etc. to TICO. Support is transparent,
- i.e. when it's set up correctly, you can load and save
- files in these formats from within TICO, just like the
- internally supported formats.
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- 1.01 21.2.94 New host files added supporting Mode X undocumented
- VGA display modes. They support the following :-
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- STUBMX1.HST ... 320 x 400 x 256
- STUBMX2.HST ... 360 x 200 x 256
- STUBMX3.HST ... 360 x 400 x 256
- STUBMX4.HST ... 320 x 240 x 256
- STUBMX5.HST ... 320 x 480 x 256
- STUBMX6.HST ... 360 x 240 x 256
- STUBMX7.HST ... 360 x 480 x 256
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- This extends the range supported previously, and
- the EXE files produced are slightly smaller ( 250
- bytes after compression ) and twice as fast.
- Unfortunately, they will not work with 8086 processors,
- so the old files ( STUB06.HST and STUB07.HST ) have
- been retained, and support has been added to separate
- host files on the basis of target processor.
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- Altered code so that files loaded by "File", "Open"
- always appear at the bottom of the loaded file list.
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- Altered code so that when selecting a file type in the
- "Save As" dialog box, the file name is also updated.
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- 1.0 14.2.94 First shareware release.
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