SHAREWARE AUTHORS, INC owns the exclusive rights to the sale and distribution of this program on CD-ROM and all other high capacity (over 2MB) media. All other such distribution is strictly prohibited.
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CyberGif is shareware and I would like to know if you use it. (Why? So I can get encouragement to write more software--that's why!)
In order to make it easy for those of you who use this program, I have come up with my own personal shareware system. The responsible Mac owner will do ONE of the following:
1) Send me $10 and a disk. This will get you a manual and a registered copy of CyberGif and returned to you on the disk you send to me. In addition, you will receive my heartfelt thanks.
OR
2) Send me a disk filled with your favorite GIF images on a disk. This will get you a manual and a registered copy of CyberGif and returned to you on the disk you send to me. In addition, you will receive my heartfelt thanks. What kind of GIFs should you send? Well, anything you want, from beautiful scenery to beautiful playmates. (The latter may speed delivery, however :^) )
See how easy it is? Now if you actually use it, you must have some spare GIFs lying around, so c'mon, please choose one of the options and mail to:
Roger Allen
2530 Berryessa Road, Suite 228
San Jose, CA 95132
America Online: Roger7.
Internet: roger7@aol.com
#####What is CyberGif?
CyberGif is a Macintosh GIF viewer.
"Why another one?" you may ask. Well, CyberGif has a lot of features that aren't available on the other GIF viewers that I have found. I tried the other gif viewers/editors and found the features that I wanted in a GIF viewer. These features include:
-Dithering--CyberGif allows black & white Macs (w/ColorQD) to see GIF files! Please note that CyberGif does this AUTOMATICALLY only if all monitors hooked up to the Mac are in two color mode. Multiple monitors of differing depths may confuse CyberGif. A future version will fix this.
-Slide Show--just put the GIFs you want in a directory and watch the full screen show! Also note that the GIFs must be of type 'GIFf' to be seen in the slide show.
-Growable/Scrollable windows--you can choose to stretch/shrink the window!
-Fit Gif to Screen--and keeps the GIF proportions correct!
-Full Screen Window--for those times when a window and menu bar are too distracting!
-System Palette Option--see how the GIF would look as a background picture!
-Information Window--look at the current GIF's colors and much more!
-Flash--get rid of color residue that most GIF viewer leave in the background!
#####What is a GIF file?
A GIF file is a file that contains a picture. The picture is compressed as far as it can be in order to transmit it over phone lines quickly and so that it occupies as little disk space as possible. GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format, and was invented by Compuserve.
#####How do I use CyberGif?
Well, here I may disappoint you. In order to "push" you to register with me. I'm not going to include any help with CyberGif. I hope this doesn't anger anyone, I just can't think of any better way to get people to register without releasing "cripple-ware". Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with this, I'd still like to hear from you. Please send any responses to the above address or contact me on AOL. Remember there may be lots of neat features in CyberGif that I know about--but won't tell you until you register.
#####NOTES:
CyberGif has been developed and tested on a Macintosh IIcx running System 7.0 with both Virtual Memory and 32-bit mode on.
I have personally tested CyberGif on the following Macs:
SE/30, System 6; IIcx, System 6; IIcx, System 7; IIci, System 6; LC, System 6.0.8; IIsi, System 7; Classic II, System 7; PowerBook 140, System 7.
On any machine without Color Quickdraw, CyberGif dies a quick and ugly death. This will be fixed in a future version.
On multiple-monitor machines, automatic dithering will not work unless ALL screens are set to 1-bit mode.
1. Thanks go out to Jeff Isozaki and Alan Humpherys for their help in debugging. I'm finally getting it out the door, guys!
2. Thanks also go out to Dave Platt for his help in the beginning (remember me?). Comp.sys.mac.programmer has got to be one of the greatest inventions in the history of man.
3. Thanks also go out to Symantec for their THINK C Development System. All my shareware is developed with it.
#####Version History
1.0 - This is the first official release of CyberGif. (May, 1992)
1.1 - This version hopefully fixes the problems that some users had with Mac LCs and the HDT Lightshow init. It also includes a way to pause the slideshow. (June, 1992)
#####Future Improvements (if I get enough encouragement--hint, hint)
