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- G I F E X E
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- Version 1.0
- June 10, 1990
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- A Self-Displayer Program for Your GIF(tm) Pictures
- Copyright 1990,1991 Steve Enns and Dan Magosse.
- All right reserved.
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- GIFEXE is produced by:
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- Steve Enns Dan Magosse
- 2425 Haultain Ave. 1321 14th St. East
- Saskatoon, Sk. Saskatoon, Sk.
- Canada S7J 1R2 Canada S7H 0A6
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- Okay, here's the boring stuff, but don't worry, it's better
- than chewing tinfoil:
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- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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- Kudos, thanks, and good karma to John Bridges for the
- enlightening information and code contained in his VGAKIT
- package. Trademarks like GIF(tm) and PC(tm) are held by
- their respective companies.
-
- DISCLAIMER
-
- The GIFEXE program is provided without warranty of any
- kind. The user of the GIFEXE assumes complete
- responsibility for any and all incidental or consequential
- damages which may occur during normal or abnormal use of the
- GIFEXE program. Use the GIFEXE program at your own risk.
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- LICENSE
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- The entire GIFEXE package, including the GIFEXE program,
- documentation, and sample files are Copyright 1990,1991
- Steve Enns and Dan Magosse. All rights reserved. The
- unregistered shareware version of the GIFEXE may be freely
- distributed to others by any means, as long the following
- (three) conditions are met:
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- 1) GIFEXE is distributed in a "package" containing
- the following three files:
- GIFEXE.EXE
- GIFEXE.DOC
- GE-READ.ME
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- 2) GIFEXE is not distributed as part of any other
- product, except with specific written permission from
- the authors.
-
- 3) NO fee of any kind is charged for the GIFEXE
- package or for the service of providing the package,
- except Computer Bulletin Board Systems, which may
- distribute the GIFEXE package even though they may
- charge a membership or service fee.
-
- You can use the "shareware" version for as long as you want,
- even until you're well into your nineties, but you are of
- course encouraged to send us lots of money, too. (I'm
- struggling to pay for my violin lessons, and Dan needs a new
- fishing rod.) Here are some other programs we've made:
-
- GIFWARP! Warp, bend stretch your GIFs for
- interesting effects.
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- GIFCLIP Clip/crop your GIFs, add text or your
- own GIF logo or signature.
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- These programs are available in licensed SuperVGA versions
- for $8.00 U.S. each, or get both, and the latest version of
- GIFEXE for $15.00 U.S.
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- REQUIREMENTS
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- GIFEXE requires the following:
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- - PC(tm)/XT(tm)/AT(tm)/386(tm) computer thing
- - About 280K of free RAM
- - DOS 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.0 (others untested)
- - A VGA or SuperVGA card
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- and optionally:
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- - GIFEXE supports modes like 640x480, 800x600
- with 256 colours on 512K SuperVGA cards from
- ATI, Ahead, Cirrus, Chips and Technologies,
- Everex, OAK, Paradise, Trident, Tseng and
- Video7.
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- INSTALLATION
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- Copy the GIFEXE program (and this helpful document of
- course!) to any directory that you want - perhaps with
- your favourite GIF(tm) viewer somewhere in the DOS
- path.
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- USAGE
-
- Syntax for GIFEXE is as follows:
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- GIFEXE [?] infilename[.GIF] [outfilename[.EXE]]
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- After making an .EXE file, (see below) the /mode parameter
- may be used as follows:
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- /mode=0 Ordinary 320x200 mode
- /mode=1 Low resolution SVGA
- 640x400 or 640x350
- depending on your card.
- /mode=2 Medium resolution 640x480
- /mode=3 High resolution 800x600
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- { /mode=4 Higher resolution 1024x768
- Coming soon? } )
-
- For example, try:
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- C> GIFEXE to see the title screen
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- C> GIFEXE ? to see the help/brag screen
-
- C> GIFEXE house to make the .EXE HOUSE.EXE
- from the file HOUSE.GIF
- C> GIFEXE house house2 make the .EXE file HOUSE2.EXE,
- from the GIF(tm) HOUSE.GIF
-
- TUTORIAL
-
- (Nothin' to it!)
-
- Try out the following with your favourite GIF(tm) picture:
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- C> GIFEXE picturename
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- GIFEXE will prduce an EXE program with the name
- "picturename.EXE" That's it! Now just run the program
- you've just made:
-
- C> picturename
-
- The picture will be displayed on your screen in VGA, or in
- SuperVGA if your computer has SuperVGA, and the picture
- requires it. If you want a small (VGA) picture to be
- displayed in SuperVGA resolution, try:
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- C> picturename /mode=2
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- to display the picture in medium SuperVGA resolution.
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- HINTS
-
- - The EXEs produced by GIFEXE are handy for startup screens
- on your computer, or title screens for your programs.
-
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- ERRORS
-
- - The following self explanatory error messages may be
- produced by GIFEXE. The errors involving the GIF(tm) files
- will generally be due to disk errors or faulty image files.
- Other errors refer to lack of enough free RAM space, or lack
- of required hardware (VGA).
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- Can't initialize VGA graphics!
- Unexpected EOF reading GIF!
- Premature end of GIF!
- Not GIF file!
- Invalid GIF format
- Error writing GIF!
- Buffer allocation failure!
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- NOTES
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- - GIFEXE reads both GIF87A standard (the original) and
- new GIF89A pictures, although most of the extensions in the
- new GIF89A standard like (silly) text windows are ignored.
- The last image in multi-image GIFs will be the one displayed
- by GIFEXE.
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- HISTORY
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- - Version 1.0 Completed June.1 1991
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