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´ GRAPHIC PROGRAMS AND GRAPHICS UTILITIES ´
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חלללללללל†
´ F.3933 ´
זלללללללל¶
THE KANDINSKY COMPILATION by Ulrich Rossgoderer - Two versions of the most
powerful Shareware vector graphic programs available. Although v2 is now
available, v1.73 is still being supported and is looked upon as an entry
level purchase with registration at around half the cost of v2. Check out
these features:-
KANDINSKY v1.73i - All the usual features like box, round box, circle,
elipse, line, polygon, arc and bezier curves are there. The control offered
over bezier curves is second to none. Text input is supported from 8 point
to 20 point using the system font. SpeedoGDOS is supported if installed.
The package includes 10 excellent vector fonts in BGI format and these can
be scaled to any size. Greyscales and shadowing can be applied to
objects and these can be moved, re-sized, grouped, ungrouped, mirrored and
rotated as required. Kandinsky is fully Multi-TOS compatible and the
number of windows available is limited only by available memory. It loads
and saves GEM metafiles as well as allowing data to be exchanged between
programs using the GEM clipboard. Although the programs will run in any
resolution,it is best run in resolutions of at least 640 x 400. Almost
everything in Kandinsky is user definable and can be saved as default. A
large amount of GEM files are supplied for you to experiment with. Highly
recommended and well worth your while registering. Please note that you
cannot print unless GDOS of SpeedoGDOS is installed.
KANDINSKY V2.51 - Includes all the features of its predecessor plus many
more. These include support for 3D colour icons and 256 colour modes (TT or
Falcon), FPU support, Freedom, iconification, TOS 2's drag & drop protocol,
the editing of Calamus CVG files (registered version) and the AV Protcol
amongst other things. Now with context-sensitive ST-Guide (ST-Guide Lite
included) based help, ability to map any object onto an unfilled bezier
curve, CVG export, support for external font selectors, better compatibility
with MagiC and Magic Mac, full support for OLGA and much more... The program
is under constant development and is well supported by the author.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.3935 ´
זלללללללל¶
BABY S/E-A nice easy to use French art package. It loads and saves GIF,
TGA, PCX, IFF, Degas and NEO files. This is an excellent program for
applying special effects to pictures, especially true colour ones. However,
there are no drawing tools. Everything's in French but it's worth a go when
you consider that you can alter brightness, contract, mirror in any
direction, separate RGB frames and much more!
AUTOTGA - Displays any 24 bit Targa picture in 16 million colours.
AUTOGIF - Displays any size of GIF file in 256 colours using the nearest
legal Falcon resolution, employing overscan if necessary.
AUTOIFF - Displays any size of IFF file using the nearest legal Falcon
resolution, employing overscan if necessary. It copes with any 'legal' IFF
including HAM, but not 24-bit HAM, HAM 8 or similar.
AUTORAW - Displays pictures saved out as RAW data, in true colour. These
picture viewers will not work on VGA monitors.
FRAC_DSP - An amazing fractal graphic generator. It runs as a PRG or a CPX
and will generate fractal graphics on any ST or compatible. However, it
really shows its power if you select the DSP option.A typical fractal taking
84 seconds to create on an ST takes 8 seconds with the DSP option on the
Falcon! It also supports the 68881 maths coprocessor. Fractals can be zoomed
at any position as well as created from scratch.
SPEED OF LIGHT V2.5 - A fast GIF picture viewer which uses a 16 million
colour palette on the Falcon. Various display options are possible, pity
it's just a viewer.
IFF2XIMG - Converts Amiga 32 colour 5 bit-plane IFFs to 256 colour X-IMG
format.
XGA2TGA - Converts a 384 x 480 XGA picture into a 16-bit Targa file of the
same resolution.
TGA2XGA - Converts a 384 x 480 16 - BIT Targa picture into a 16-bit XGA file
of the same resolution. ST versions of the converters are also included
but the pictures can't be viewed on an ST.
VIEW XGA - Allows you to view XGA pictures.
FALCONSL - Two excellent slideshow programs for displaying those excellent
Targa true colour pictures.
SNAPSHOT by Dieter Fiebelkorn - An ACC which allows you to capture a
screen from the Desktop or any GEM based package and save it as a colour IMG
(X-IMG) file.
BNR VIEW by Binaris - An excellent picture viewer and converter. You can
have up to 20 windows open, each displaying a different picture. It loads
and saves GIF87a,Targa type 2 and TG1 images. 24-bit Targas can be
converted to 16-bit and the program can display pictures packed using Atomik
or Speedpacker to save disk space. You can scroll by dragging the mouse on
images larger than the screen. Fully Multi -TOS compatible and very fast at
loading and displaying.
FIX A GIF V1.0 - Allows you to convert GIF89a files to GIF87a format,
split GIF files containing multiple images and fix GIFs created with the PC
program GIFLITE.
FRAC PLAY - A fractal generator (Mandelbrot, Julia and L-Sys) which runs in
any resolution. It is excellent when run in 256 colours and true colour.
There's a good deal of options which can be set to your require-ments and a
number of saved files on disk. My only reservation is that it saves in Neo,
Degas or IMG formats only. It is obviously best to use a snapshot utility
like the one on this disk.
FRACTALE - A very fast true colour Mandelbrot generator which uses the
DSP.A very fast zoom mode is implemented as well as the ability to 'fly'
into the fractal! The detail is incredible with you being able to zoom/fly
right into a single pixel and make it fill the entire window!
FRACTGEN - Generates fractal graphics using a number of selected
algorythms applied to any of the six available fractal types. You can zoom
in to an almost infinite degree. It recalculates the zoomed area by
representing it in a blockish fashion like an art package does, then
smoothing it off using your chosen algorythm. The results are very
detailed and once again the only criticism is the inability to save in a
sensible format. 01A maths coprocessor can be used to speed things up even
further.
GEMTARGA - Displays a 16-bit or 24-bit Targa file in a GEM window. It can
display the picture in any resolution and will reduce the colours to suit.
Files can be loaded individually or run automatically from a script file.
Various options can be entered but once again, the only way to save is with
snapshot.
PLAY FLI v1.3 - A very simple player program which allows you to run FL0I
animations created with AutoDesk Animator on the PC. Once installed, you
simply double - click the FLI to play it. Please note that it only plays
FLI files, not FLC.
IFF HAM 8 - Lets you view all types of IFF files (including HAM and HAM 8)
on your Falcon. There's no save facility but you can use snapshot.
VIEWER0 by Brainstorm - Loads and displays JPEG and Targa pictures in a GEM
window in any resolution. It performs colour reduction if necessary.
Pictures can be loaded individually or displayed in a continuous slide
show. Dithering and re-sizing are available too. No conversion or saving
though. Multi - TOS compatible.
WATCH IT V1.0A - Displays GIF pictures in a GEM window. It runs in any
resolution, reducing colours as necessary, and is Multi-TOS compatible.
TGA SLIDE v1.1A by Binaris - Allows you to run a slideshow of type 2 16-bit
or 24-bit TGA or TG1 files. The pictures can be compressed using Atomik or
Speedpacker to save disk space. Various fade effects are applied to the
slides.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.3988 ´
זלללללללל¶
POV RAY TRACE FALCON VERSION - David K Buck, author of DKB Ray Trace on ST
disk ART.3411C has teamed up with a team of programmers in an attempt to
develop DKB Ray Trace into the most comprehensive ray tracing program
ever written. The result is POV Ray Trace and it is really astounding to
say the least. POV has been ported to the Falcon and there are two versions
on disk, one for the 'bare bones' machine and the other for use if you have
a 68882 maths coprocessor fitted. Although these versions are much faster
than their ST and PC equivalents, do prepare yourself for a long wait
when tracing a complex true colour screen. POV is best run from a command
line due to the complex nature of the parameters. It is extensively
documented on disk and must be installed onto 3 HD disks or a hard
drive before use!
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חלללללללל†
´ F.4260 ´
זלללללללל¶
FPAINT by Risk of Independent - The first PD art program for the Falcon. It
has a similar set of tools to Delmpaint and has 10 zoom levels. You get 6
screens and it only runs in 320x200x256 or 320x240x256. Loads and saves PI1
and its own format. The instructions are contained within the program.
WARNING! - This program contains a lot of swearing. Needs 4 Meg.
DELMPAINT v0.5 by Mr Coke of Independent - A pretty basic art program
which only runs in 320x200x256 or 320x240x256. It has all the standard
tools like draw, point, line, fill, airbrush, frame, box, circle, oval and
6 levels of zoom. You get four workscreens and it loads DEL,PI1 and FPaint
formats. Needs 4 Meg.
GTC74 - This program allows you to read GIF,TGA, BMP, PI1, PC1, SPC, SPU and
TIFF formats and convert them to GIF, TGA, BMP or TIFF. A nice easy to use
conversion program with a number of extras like convert 24-bit to 8-bit, add
text, alter RGB values, reorganise palette, and more. Thanks to Ralph
Nelson-Tucker for the translation.
JML SNAP v5.21 - A Shareware snapshot utility which can be run as an ACC or
PRG (under Multi-TOS). JML SNAP lets you save the entire screen or the
contents of any window (including or excluding the scrollbars etc) as a
snapshot. You can also use the rubber banding method. Pressing ALT+Help
(registered version) allows you to grab a screen (not necessarily from a GEM
program) and save it directly to disk. Images are normally saved in (X)IMG,
IFF or TIFF format. This version is limited in the fact that it only saves
in IMG format, does not include the ALT+Help option and doesn't run in True
Colour. Register to remove these restrictions. Program in English and
German.
SPEC2XGA by SKWare One - Converts Spectrum 512 SPC and SPU files into
320x200 True Colour XGA files. An ST version of the program is also included
but pictures can only be displayed on a Falcon. VIEWXGA-Lets you display
True Colour XGA pictures created at resolutions of 320x480, 384x480,
384x576, 640x480 and 768x576.
XPORTIMG by SKWare One - Converts a 16 colour, 4 bitplane IMG (or XIMG) to
TGA, IFF, IMG, XIMG, PrismPaint, TIFF v6 or XGA format. It was designed
specifically to create TIFFs which can be read correctly by Calamus SL.
The docs also give hints on importing TIFF into SL.
POVSHELL V1.0 by Dirk Klemmt - A GEM based interface designed to make the
use of POV Raytrace (on F.3988) much less complicated. Includes C source.
VIEWTGA by SKWare One - Displays 384x480 16-bit TGA files. Not VGA.
GIP v1.0 by Stephen Found - An excellent graphic utility for converting
colour images to true greyscales. There are numerous filters in the
program which allow you perform various transformations on your image.
Filters can be applied to selected areas of the image or to the entire
screen. GIP loads images in TIFF v5, GIF, PCX, Degas, IMG, Hyperpaint IMG
and AIM formats. The resultant greyscale image can be saved in TIFF or IMG
formats. Printout is supported to HP Laserjet, HP Deskjet and Postscript
printers. GIP runs in any resolution and is fully Multi-TOS compatible.
The quality of the screen display depends on the resolution you are
in, but the image is always stored and saved as a 64 grey level
image. Documentation is rather sparse but there's an extensive on-line help
facility available from within the program. Highly recommended.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.4368 ´
זלללללללל¶
JPEG DECODER V1.0 by Brainstorm of Atari France- The much sought after JPEG
decoder has been released into the Public Domain. Simply put this tiny
program into an Auto folder and forget about it. Any program which makes
use of the JPEG Decoder will show an impressive speed increase if the
decoder is installed. It is even possible to load a JPEG while another
is decompressing and displaying! GEMVIEW (also on disk) loads and displays a
JPEG at least three times as fast with the decoder installed!
JPEG VIEWER V1.1 by Brainstorm - An ACC which loads and displays (colour
reducing if necessary) any size of JPEG within a matter of seconds in
conjunction with the JPEG decoder. Also included are a few JPEGs to view.
JPEG V2.18 by David Oldcorn- Allows you to view JPEGs by double-clicking or
run a slideshow of them. Large pictures can be scrolled or half sized and a
number of other features are included. It can be run from any res and always
jumps into True Colour. Degas, Spectrum, GIF and Targa. Any picture can be
resaved as a JPEG or Targa. RGB ONLY.
JAGUAR PICS - A collection of True Colour screengrabs of the first games in
development for the Atari Jaguar. These may be viewed by either of the JPEG
viewers on disk.
24 VIEW by Douglas Little - Allows you to double-click TGA or RAW files from
the Desktop and display them in 24-bit True Colour. RGB only.
GIF2JPEG - Converts a GIF file into a JPEG.
JPEG2GIF - Extracts a GIF picture from a JPEG file. VIDEL - Displays a
Targa type 2 file in 504,063 colours in True Colour mode. RGB only.
GEMVIEW V3.16 - This program allows you to view almost any picture format
from almost any computer in almost any resolution on any Atari 16-bit or 32-
bit machine! The picture is displayed in a GEM window and the scroll bars
can be used to view areas not displayed on screen, where the resolution of
the picture exceeds that of your monitor. Pictures with more colours than
can be displayed in the current resolution go through a colour reduction
and dithering process so that the picture can be viewed. You can
currently display any picture in the following formats:- GIF, SUN, B&W, PAC,
IFF, BMP, RLE, IMG (including colour), GEM, NEO, ART, DEGAS, TINY, DOO,
SPU, SPC, XBM, PBM, PGM, PPM, MAC, TGA, TIFF, RSC, PCX, VIDAS, APPLE II, Mac
Sartup Screen, Megapaint, CRG, Apple Imagewriter, MGF, Monostar, Printfox,
Pagefox, Thunderscan, Inshape, STraight Fax, R24, QFax/Coma-Fax, XGA,
PhotoCD and JPEG. Pictures can be resized and resaved in IMG, ESM, IFF,
BMP, GIF, TIFF, TGA, MGF, Inshape, STraight Fax, R24, QFax/Coma-Fax or JPEG
formats. This latest version is fully Multi-TOS compatible and Falcon
enhanced. Latest features include colour scale adjust, colour dithering
algorythms for 4, 8, 16, 64 and 256 colours, compatibility with most colour
graphic cards and the ability to convert a GEM metafile into a raster
graphic. Gemview can also display ASCII files and do a hex dump of any file.
Also included is Gemshow, which can be installed as a file viewer under
Multi-TOS and communicate with Gemview. Floppyshop are the only company
permitted to distribute GEM-View versions 3.0 and above in the UK. This is
a Shareware product which only remains functional for 30 days after
installation. Full details on how to register in the UK are contained on the
disk.
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חלללללללללל†
´ ART.4438 ´
זלללללללללל¶
BRAINSTORM'S FLI/FLC PLAYER - This program allows you load and play an FLI
or FLC animation file from AutoDesk Animator and AutoDesk Animator Pro from
the PC. The program runs the animation in a GEM window and runs in any
resolution on the ST or Falcon, colour reducing as necessary. The program
is fast and displays animations smoothly, being more compatible than any
other FLI/FLC player available. A few sample animations are included on
disk. Please note that this player also runs on a TT but only in TT low
resolution. We aplogise to Falcon and TT owners for not supplying this
program on an HD disk,but distribution conditions prevent us from doing so.
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´ S-F.4512 & S-F.4513 ´
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POV RAYTRACE V2.0 (FALCON) and v2.2 (TT) - This is the long awaited followup
to POV Raytrace. Although raytracing is always slow, this version is much
faster than its predecessor. New features include improved antialiasing,
soft penumbral shadows for extended area lights, simplified torus syntax,
three new pigment textures and support for phong shading. In addition,
several hundred scenes are supplied for you to render yourself. These are
grouped depending on the ability of user they are aimed at. Also included
are a number of conversion programs which let you convert CAD3D2 files to
POV, POV files into GIF or FLI format or create a POV scene from a TGA file.
There's also various utilities which let you create lissajous, build helixes
from a torus, create spiral textures on spheres, create b-splines from cones
and spheres, create xtal shapes and twisted objects. For those of you who
don't like using CLI's, we've included POVSHELL 1.5 by Dirk Klemms. There
are two versions on disk, POV v2.0 for the 68030 processor and POV 2.2 for
the TT or a Falcon with a 68882 maths coprocessor.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.4659 ´
זלללללללל¶
3DANIM - A player program which loads 3D objects created by CAD3D,
Cybersculpt and Cyberstudio from the ST. The resulting images can be viewed
from any angle and rotated using the mouse. Uses the DSP, so it's really
fast. Several 3D2 files are enclosed for you to play around with.
FLYSHOW - A displayer program for running FLI and FLC animations. This one
is better than previous offerings because it runs from any resolution and
can be installed as an application from the Desktop so that you can double-
click FLI files to view them. In addition, if you run out of memory, the
player will run the animation from disk. Two example FLI files are included.
FRACTGA - Creates fractal graphics and saves them out in TGA format. The
program runs as a TTP and must be called from a CLI and fed with the
necessary parameters. Thanks to Ralph Nelson-Tucker for the translation.
GENART V1.0 by Ian Clarke - A random pattern generator. It generates four
random patterns and you choose which one you like. It is used as the basis
for the next four or drawn full screen size. Patterns can be merged or
mutated and there's a couple of user settings which may be altered too.
GYRO - Draw a symetrical shape on screen and watch it transform into a 3D
wireframe object which can be moved around the screen, filled with solid
colours or saved to disk. There's quite a few settings which may be changed
to suit.
HAM8 - Displays ordinary IFF as well as and HAM (including HAM8) pictures in
256 colour mode.
KEFTAL 24 - Creates textured backgrounds and keftal graphics up to a
resolution of 24-bit True Colour. You can set the type of graphic to be
computed (i.e. what type of keftal etc), its resolution and the number of
colours to be used. The graphic is not displayed on screen so you can
generate effects in more colours and in a higher resolution than would
normally be supported by your computer. Lots of user definable settings and
it's fast too!
MANDELBROT MACHINE - A program specially designed for the Falcon, which
allows you to create fractal graphics using the Mandelbrot or Julia sets.
You can zoom in to your graphic to any depth. You can set up your own
parameters for creating a screen from scratch or load up one of the many
pre-defined ones and zoom in on it. Designed for use in 256 colour mode, the
results are stunning! Mandelbrot Machine is quite slow at computation but
considering the amount of pixels you are plotting, combined with the extra
bit-planes, the same operation would take several hours on the ST! Saving is
disabled in this demo version, full version with saving and some extras is
available from the author. Needs 4 Meg.
RAWSHOW - Loads a RAW format picture (as used in the Falcon demo by Moving
Pixels) and lets you view it or converts it to a True Paint image file.
XIMGSAVE - Converts a picture in raw screen data into XIMG format. You just
need to know the dimensions of the file to be converted.
SPEED OF LIGHT V3.8 - One of the fastest GIF and JPEG viewers around. It
also supports Degas, Prism Paint and (X)IMG formats. Up to 20 images can be
loaded, subject to memory and the viewing of oversize pictures is supported
via scrolling. You can change resolution with SOL without rebooting and
various options are included for optimising the colour palette or tweaking
the colour values. Several colour reduction algorythms are included for
converting an image to a resolution with fewer colours. Intensity and
contrast can also be altered to suit. Scaling up and down and smoothing are
also supported. SOL can also display pictures in a slideshow which may be
customised using a powerful script language. There are lots of features
associated with image processing but the most valuable, filtered image
scaling (which allows you to enlarge an image and smooth it off to the same
quality as the original), is reserved for registered users along with a few
other odds and ends. SOL now runs in any resolution including monochrome!
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חלללללללל†
´ F.4786 ´
זלללללללל¶
ARROW 24 V1.1 - An excellent GEM based modelling and raytacing package. It
allows you to create your own 3D models on screen, then turn them into 24-
bit True Colour ray tracings. Arrow 24 comes complete with a number of 3D
wireframe models and completed raytracings on disk. A separate version is
supplied for users with a maths coprocessor. Documentation is extensive but
both the program and docs are in German. Would anyone like to translate?
Needs at least 1 Meg. Hard drive recommended but not essential.
D-GRAPH V0.1 by Dune - An early version of a new art package from this well
known demo crew. It loads and saves pictures in PI1, NEO, CA1, GIF, TGA,
TIFF, DOO and BMP formats. It has only a limited number of drawing tools at
present and some are not fully operational or are buggy. RGB ONLY.
EASY POV V1.6 by Christophe Cordonnier - A nice easy to use GEM based front
end for POV 1 & POV 2. Everything is set using the mouse and pop-up menus.
Thanks to Ralph Nelson-Tucker for the translation.
FLI-TC v4.7 - An FLI animation player which runs in True Colour.
MPEGPLAY v2.0 - Plays MPEG movie files on your Falcon. MPEG is a similar
compression method to JPEG, except that it is used for moving pictures. You
can store an entire film on CD using MPEG compression. This player is ported
from NEXT and is very slow, playing back at about 1 frame per second and it
plays the animation only, not the sound.
TGA VIEW V2.0 by Graeme Urquhart - After installing, you can double-click
TGA pictures to display them. It supports most of the common sizes of TGA
and they can be packed too. However, they must be in 24-bit format. Works on
both RGB and VGA monitors.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.4787 ´
זלללללללל¶
BITMAP VIEW 4 v2.0c by Racème Productions - A file viewer, converter and
slideshow program which runs in almost any resolution. Conversions can be
performed blind in order to preserve colour depth or you can have the image
colour reduced (where necessary) to display in the current mode. Some new
features include real-time zooming, slideshow option, fullscreen display
option and mosaic mode which lets you display all loaded pictures on screen
at once. New to v4 is support for Parx Software's external modules (also on
disk) which allow scanners and digitisers to input directly into BV4. BV4 is
Shareware and several extras including JPEG support are reserved for
registered users. Extensive on-line Help is included. Multi-TOS/MagiC
compatible.
M&E MODULES (24/11/97) by Parx - An impressive collection of graphics based
modules created by Parx, a French company responsible for a number of Atari
based products. These must be installed prior to use and are common to all
applications (eg; BV4, Piccolo, D2M, Diapo etc), using M&E modules, so you
need only have one set of modules installed on your system. They handle
graphic cards, memory management, intelligent colour reduction, generation
of textures, support for GDOS/NVDI printing, the loading of over 40 and
saving of over 30 different file types (incl all common Atari formata as
well as Photo CD, TIFF, GIF etc) and digitising directly into any supporting
program using Vidi ST and others. There's even a module which lets you
output photographic quality images to the Fargo FotoFun. M&E modules (and
programs which use them) are most usable if you have two floppy drives or a
hard drive. It will not be possible to install all the modules on this disk
onto a single drive (there's simply not enough space!). This disk is
necessary if you intend to use BV4 or Diapo and desirable if you use any
other M&E based product as it contains a more complete set of modules than
most software producers package with their goods.
MC FLY V0.7 by John McLoud - Plays FLI, FLC or GL animations in a GEM
window.
IMCON V1.1 by Christoph Pfisterer - Loads files in Doodle, Degas, NEO, STAD,
Tiny, ART, SPU, SPC, AIM, IMG, IFF, PCX, GIF, TIFF and its own format and
saves as Degas, NEO, AIM, IMG, IFF, GIF, TIFF and its own format. In
addition converting the images, you can also zoom them, enlarge or reduce
the canvas, convert between palette based, greyscale and True Colour
formats, scale them, invert them and much more. Images can be converted
blind or you can view them. When viewing, they are viewed at the current
screen resolution although they are stored and worked on at their original
resolution. A fast and efficient file converter which lacks GEM-View's
versatility but is easier to set up and uses much less memory.
MOV POV V2.86 by Georges Gomes - A Shareware animation program for use with
the POV Raytracer (S-F.4512 & S-F.4513). It allows you load up a POV script
file to render a scene and then make the necessary changes in order to
create the next frame in an animation. Some menu items are disabled in this
version and available only to registered users. Multi-TOS compatible. Thanks
to Ralph Nelson-Tucker for the translation.
SHOWER V1.1 by Blade of New Core - A VERY fast picture file viewer for
Degas, NEO, ART, BMP, DOO, MUR, GIF, IFF, IMG, MAC, MPT, RAG, RAW, TGA & TRU
formats. You can drag a file and drop it onto the viewer, run Shower and
load from the file selector or install it as an application on the Desktop
so that you can double-click pictures to view them. Shower even switches to
the correct resolution before displaying a picture.
XIMG SNAPSHOT V1.43DF by S Becker & D Sabiwalsky - An ACC screengrabber
which lets you grab the contents of the top window or a user defined area of
the screen, and save it in XIMG format.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.4869 ´
זלללללללל¶
ECLIPSE by P Hannington - An incredibly powerful image processing package.
It loads images in RAW, TGA, IFF, SPU, Degas, GIF, TIFF and BMP formats,
saving them in RAW, TGA, IFF, BMP and TIFF formats. The features include 24
different processing filters (including sharpen, blur, emboss, smooth and
laplace), RGB colour adjustment, gamma correction, convert to greyscale,
rotate image, bend, squeeze, zigzag and mirror. In addition, images may be
mapped onto spheres, pyramids or diamonds and cutting and pasting of blocks
between buffers is also supported. Eclipse runs in any resolution on the
ST/E, TT and Falcon but does not display pictures correctly on the Falcon if
NVDI is installed. The special effects menu and the user guide are reserved
for registered users. Highly recommended.
FRACTALS by Jean Lusetti - Yet another of those very fast fractal programs.
This one only runs on a TT or Falcon and can make use of the FPU if you have
one fitted. On the Falcon, the 68030 and DSP work together to generate the
graphics at lightning speed. You can use the Mandelbrot or Julia sets and
zoom in using a box or by setting a central point, both of which are user
definable. The fractals are created within windows and you can set the size
of the window to suit, in fact you can even alter it after the fractal has
been generated. Two fractals can be selected as the start and end frames of
an animation and those in between will be calculated by the program.
Extensive control is available over almost every aspect of this program and
your works of art may be saved out in (X)IMG format. Runs in any resolution
from mono to True Colour. The only drawback is that both program and docs
are in French.
MNDL_INIT v2.26 by R J Ridder - Another very fast Mandelbrot generator. Like
so many of the newer Mandelbrot generator, this one constructs a rough
image, then rounds it off to produce the smooth fractal graphic that you
expect. It allows you to calculate the fractal using 16-bit integers or 32-
bit integers or optionally the DSP or a maths coprocessor if these are
available. It supports both the Mandelbrot and Julia sets and allows you to
zoom into any part of the screen, almost into infinity. A number of preset
palettes are supplied on disk as well as about a dozen pre-calculated
images. MNDL_INIT runs in ANY resolution and pictures may be displayed
fullscreen or in windows. You can also create animations from your fractal
screens and these can be replayed using the animation player provided.
MAKE JPEG by Andrew Younger - Allows you to convert GIF, TGA or PPM files to
JPG format and vice versa. Images may be converted to greyscale and block
smoothing is supported. Almost everything is user selectable by simple mouse
clicks. Multi-TOS compatible.
JPEG DSP by David Oldcorn - Displays GIF or JPEG files using the DSP for
speed. You can tag multiple files and run a slideshow or display a single
picture. All pictures are displayed fullscreen and the program switches
resolution to suit. Pictures larger than the screen may be half-sized or
scrolled around using the arrow keys. Perhaps the fastest JPEG and GIF
displayer around. RGB ONLY.
JPEG HACK - A modified version of Brainstorm's JPEG decoder which does not
pause for several seconds when it loads. Speeds up your startup time quite a
bit if you usually run the Brainstorm decoder from the Auto folder.
PLAYMPEG v0.70 by Griff - MPEGs are the animation equivalent of JPEGs. In
other words, they are very highly compressed with a certain amount of loss
of quality (not really noticeable unless you repeatedly MPEG the same file).
This player uses the DSP in order to play back animations at speeds of up to
20 frames per second. It supports MPEG-1 files (MPEG-2 includes sound as
well as graphics) of all sizes up to a maximum of 480*384 but only replays
them in greyscale. Register with the author to get the full colour version.
This program may be installed so that you just double-click MPEGs to show
them.
MPEGDSP by Guido Vollbeding - Another MPEG-1 animation player. This one
performs similarly well to Griff's version with the exception that it
actually displays the animations in colour rather than greyscale. It is also
able to handle some large (in terms of resolution) MPEGs which the Griff
player rejects. However, the Griff player runs slightly faster and smoother.
This program can also be installed so that MPEGs are double-clickable.
TURBOGIF V1.3 by Sascha Springer - The fastest GIF displayer you'll ever
find! It runs from any resolution and automatically switches to 640x480x256.
Larger pictures may be scrolled using the mouse. Can be installed so that
you just double-click GIFs to view them. VGA ONLY.
NEO_PAT1 by Lou Trapani - A collection of patterns suitable for use to
create a Desktop backdrop for NEODesk 4, Deskpic and similar programs. Some
are in 256 colours and others in True Colour format.
SCAPE v1.2 - Creates random planetary scenes. You will be surprised just how
realistic looking some of them are. Even those which would not pass for the
real thing would not look out of place in a science fiction setting!
Supposedly runs in any 256 colour mode, but in practice it's only stable in
80 column modes. Your resulting planetary masterpieces may be saved to disk
in PCX or GIF format or you can just sit back and watch! TT compatible. FPU
version also included.
INDY PAINT V1.5 by Gerhard Seiler - A True Colour graphics package. Indy
Paint has all the basics you would expect but nothing much by way of extras
as far as tools go. However, there are a few nice touches like the inclusion
of animation, the ability to change resolution within the program and some
comprehensive palette manipulation features including masking of certain
colours and selective colour remapping. You can also convert True Colour
pictures to greyscale. The zoom mode is also worth a mention as you can use
all the tools within zoom mode and the zoom window will scroll appropriately
if your action goes outside its given boundaries. Indy Paint does have its
peculiarities but is well worth a look.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.5084 ´
זלללללללל¶
IMAGELAB 2.1 by Rainer Frädrich - A Freeware greyscale image processing
package with a few nice touches. Features include scaling,
contrast/brightness adjust, linear distribution, equal distribution, median
filter, dilation, erosion, edge enhancement and the ability to display any
of an image's 8 bitplanes. An invaluable feature is the ability to design
your own filters and over 20 of these are supplied on disk. A number of
greyscale adjustment filters are also supplied. Blocks may be cut and pasted
between images and two images can be merged together to create some
interesting effects. The ability to convert mono IMGs into true greyscale
images is most helpful for those of you who do not have greyscale scanners.
Imagelab is restricted to loading its own B_W format, AIM format or
uncompressed IFFs but external conversion utilities allow GIF, TIFF, Degas
and IMG format to be converted to B_W and vice versa. Although the program
runs in mono, all work is actually performed in 256 greyscale mode. Use GEM-
View 3 (ART.3485) to convert B_W to more useful formats. Fully GEMmed and
Multi-TOS compatible. Program and short introduction in English but main
docs in German, although we have done a rough translation.
DL VIEWER V0.01B by Lonny Pursell - Plays DL animations from the PC. These
are commonly found on CD-ROMs, so you'll find this program invaluable if you
own one of those 'beasties'.
AVI_PLAY v0.95 by Dieter Fiebelkorn - A collection of programs designed to
play those AVI animations commonly found on PC CD-ROMs. There are optimised
versions for the '020 upwards and machines with an FPU.
RIFFSHOW by Dieter Fiebelkorn - Runs PC animations in RIFF format on your
Falcon.
AVI2WAVE by Dieter Fiebelkorn - Converts the sound data in AVI animations
into WAV format which can then be loaded into WinRec (F.3962).
DEGAVIEW V1.0 by Graeme Urquhart - Displays any Degas PI1, PI2 or PI3
picture on your Falcon. You can use it as a TTP, drop files onto it to
display them or install it as an application so that Degas files may be
viewed by double-clicking them. Files may be packed using Pack Ice v2.4 or
Atomic 3.5.
3DX VIEWER - Allows you to convert 3D2 files from Cad 3D and Cybersculpt
into a new format for realtime rotating and scaling using the DSP. A full
description of the new format is supplied for the curious. You can then view
the 3D objects in dot, wireframe or solid form. The view can be changed and
the object rotated and scaled using the mouse. Needs 4 Meg to convert larger
files.
CLICKIES (Nov '95) by Douglas Little - A collection of file viewers for FLI,
FLC and FLX animations and both TGA and GIF pictures. In the case of the TGA
and GIF viewers, large images are automatically scaled to the maximum
supported resolution for your monitor. There's also a MOD file player which
plays soundtracker MODs at 50khz. All viewers/players work by dropping the
appropriate file onto them, as a TTP or they can be installed as
applications so that files just need to be double-clicked in order to
view/play them.
JPG68000 by Andrew Younger - A CPX for use with XControl (F.4862) which
allows you to compress and decompress JPEG images using various options.
SPEED OF SNAIL by Brain Blaster, Metal Ages, Nucleus & Sinus - Rather a
silly name for such a powerful program! S-O-S is a VERY fast GIF viewer. It
load and displays massive GIFs from hard disk in mere seconds. Press the
left mouse button to zoom in on a selected area or the right to zoom out.
Rescaling is done in a split second, regardless of size! Impressive to say
the least. S-O-S is RGB ONLY.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.5277 ´
זלללללללל¶
FUNNY PAINT V1.7 by Patrick Eikhoff - A GEM based paint package which runs
in 2, 16 or 256 colours. It supports Degas, STAD, ART, TIFF IMG, NEO and a
few lesser known format. It is a bit picky about what it will load
(uncompressed files and only in the correct resolution!) but it does have a
few extras over normal paint packages. In particular, it concentrates on 3D
objects and has lots of special effects, many of which are stunning in 256
colours. Funny Paint also supports the use of (Speedo)GDOS fonts. All in all
an interesting, if a bit quirky, package. Unfortunately both program and
docs are in French.
PICFIB V1.1a - A slideshow program with a few differences. Picfib currently
supports the viewing of IMG, Degas, PCX and GIF images. Lists of images can
be created and individual pictures assigned 'tags'. These tags are then used
as basis of searches so that only files in the list which match any chosen
tag or tags, will be displayed. Picfib runs on any Atari but pictures with
less colours than the current resolution will look pretty awful! If you've
got lots of pictures (especially clip art) on your hard drive, this may well
be just what you need to get them into some sort of logical order.
IMCON V1.1 by Christoph Pfisterer - Converts pictures between many graphic
formats including DOO, PIC, P?1, P?2, P?3, NEO, PAC, TN?, ART, SPC, SPU, IM,
IMG, IFF, PCX, GIF & TIF. You can enlarge or reduce the size of pictures,
enlarge the screen area but retain the image size, convert between True
Colour, Greyscale and palette based formats, invert the picture, switch on
or off dithering and so on. Images can be resaved in IMG, TIFF, IFF or raw
screendump formats. What makes IMCON score over more fully featured packages
like GEM-View is its ability to load the picture into memory rather than
display it on screen, thus avoiding the problems of colour reduction in
lower resolutions. Having said that, you can display the image on screen if
you want. IMCON runs on any Atari and is compatible with most graphic cards.
POV-MOV V2.86 by Georges Gomes - A GEM based shell for use with POV
Raytrace. What makes this shell different is that it can be set to render
several scripts, one after the other, and it can also generate animations
from POV scripts. You enter the parameters for the animation and the program
generates the appropriate scripts for the in-between frames. Lots of options
(some only available when you register) to make life easier for anyone who
uses POV Raytrace. Unfortunately both program and docs are in French.
VIRTUAL SCREEN (X)IMG VIEWER V1.3 - Eero Tamminen - Allows you to view any
IMG or XIMG picture quickly and easily. It can even be installed as an
application for viewing IMGs. Colour IMGs with more colours than the current
screen resolution supports, will be displayed as monochrome.
XIMGSNAP - A program by the same author, which lets you save any section of
the Desktop to disk. Can be run as a PRG or ACC.
SPOOKY SPRITES V5 by Johan Karlsson - A True Colour sprite designer. You can
create your own sprites or grab them from True Colour Targa pictures. The
format used to store the sprites is currently supported for assembler
programmers in the Devpac Falcon Library (by the same author) on F.4784.
STOS support will be incorporated into a future version of Anthony Jacques
Falcon extensions on F.5307. According to the author, the code should also
be quite easy to incorporate into GFA Basic and other programming languages.
Needs 4 Mb.
GVMOD030 by Stephane Boisson - Five new modules for GEM-View which can only
be used on the Falcon. Autocrop removes unnecessary black border around a
True Colour picture, FS Dither 15-bits dithers a 24-bit True Colour picture
to make it look better on the Falcon's 15-bit (32,768 colour) display, FS
Dither 16-bits dithers a 24-bit True Colour picture to make it look better
on the Falcon's 16-bit (65,536 colour) display. The last two modules are for
loading and saving images in 16-bit True Colour format.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.5460 ´
זלללללללל¶
POVSTUFF VOLUME 1 - A collection of 25 very high quality raytracing scripts
for you to render yourself using POV Raytrace v2 (S-F.4512 & S-F.4513).
These have been collected from a number of sources and cover a wide variety
of subject matter. Scenes are BUG4, CAM1, COBRA, DISP2, DISPLAY, EN,
ENTERPR2, ENTERPRS, FILM, FLAME, GAP1, H2O, HAVESEAT, LIONFISH, NIGHTSKY,
OBJ1, OBJ3, ONGARD, PAWN, PICFRAME, SHNY_POV, SWORD, WINDOW, WORLD2, XWING.
Some can be rendered on a 1 Mb machine but most will need 4 Mb! Please note
that this disk is of no use to you unless you already have a copy of POV
Raytrace v2. Requires a hard drive.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.5470 ´
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MPEG FEVER V1.0 by Laurent Chaussy - A collection of utilities for analysing
and creating MPEG animations, all held together in a nice friendly GEM based
shell. MPEG is the animator's equivalent of JPEG. It is a lossy compression
method but first generation MPEGs are usually of a high enough quality to
deceive the human eye into thinking that they are the same as the original.
The loss in quality is offset by the fact that files are typically
compressed to around 10% or less of their original size. MPEG Fever allows
you to create your own MPEGs from a set of sequentially numbered TGA files
(other more obscure formats are also supported) or extract the individual
frames from an existing MPEG animation. You can also extract specified
sections of the animation to its own MPEG file or join two animations
together. A large amount of analysis of MPEGs is also supported for the
technically minded. Includes 68000, 68030 and 68882 FPU versions of the
executables. Thanks to Ralph Nelson-Tucker for the translation.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.5474 ´
זלללללללל¶
FASTER THAN POV V2.1 - A modified, much faster version of the Persistence of
Vision Raytracer (on S-F.4512 & S-F.4513). Essentially the vista buffer and
light buffer have been completely redesigned and are substantially speeded
up and the number of ray/slab tests is reduced. In addition, a number of
unnecessary calculations have been removed from the code and several bugs
removed. Also included are utilities to convert 3D Studio and
Cybersculpt/CAD 3D2 files to POV scripts, and the full set of Apex Media
graphic file viewers. Includes forty scenes for you to raytrace. It is
recommended that you use this package along with the POV distribution disks
rather than as a replacement to them. Unfortunately the improved speed has
in some cases been at the expense of memory, so 4 Mb is recommended.
3D2 TO POV V1.2 by Jochen Knauss - Another program which converts
Cybersculpt/CAD 3D2 files into POV Raytrace v1 or v2 format. Includes C
source.
GIF2FLI by Laurent Chaussy - Allows you to specify a list of GIF images to
be joined together in a continuous animation in FLI or FLC format. There are
lots of other options such as the speed of animation, colour mapping options
if more than one palette is used (FLI only), double-buffering support and
positioning of animation on screen.
VTGABLUP - A TGA picture viewer (for 8-bit and 24-bit images) which works
with the BlowUp 030 screen expander. Having said that, it also works on
'normal' displays too. Large pictures which exceed the size of the current
screen resolution can be scrolled around or resized to fit the screen. Watch
out, some TGA's display upside down!
WAX GIF VIEWER - An ACC which displays 256 colour GIFs in windows. It can
handle up to 4 windows at once and supports the VA_START protocol, so is
ideally suited to using the STik/CAB WWW browser software. Unfortunately it
doesn't handle 16 colour GIFs and only runs in 256 colour modes.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.5511 ´
זלללללללל¶
MGIF v5.0 by Johan Klockars - A major upgrade on what used to be a GIF
viewer program for mono monitors. Nowadays it's a fully fledged image
processing package! Perhaps what made it popular in the past was its ability
to give the appearance of true greyscale display on a mere monochrome
monitor. This has of course been retained. MGIF now runs in any resolution
right up to True Colour and preserves the colour depth of your image,
regardless of current screen resolution. It allows processing on single
colour channels or the combined RGB structure as a whole. MGIF supports the
loading of GIF, TGA, PPM, PI1, PI2, AIM and (X)IMG formats in addition to
its own custom format. It saves in GIF, TGA, PPM, (X)IMG and its own file
formats. A number of useful filters such as blur, median, dilation, erosion
and pixelise are supported as well as the ability to brighten and contrast
your image. Other useful features such as re-sizing and mirroring are also
supported. Includes a fair amount of documentation in ST-Guide (on F.4782)
format.
FRACT ME V1.0 by Benny Jurt - Yet another fractal graphics generator. This
one uses the 68030 CPU, 68882 FPU and DSP as required to achieve faster
calculations. Dependent on the type of algorithm needed to perform the
calculation, Fract Me chooses which processor (or processors) will be used.
The program supports the common Mandelbrot and Julia sets and allows you to
load and render pre-calculated fractal scenes or design your own from
scratch. Just to spice things up, fractal animations are also supported with
an example supplied on disk. Several completed fractal scenes are included
on disk and are truly unbelievable in quality. The program runs in any
resolution but only sup[ports the editing of fractals created in that
resolution. For best effect, run in any 256 colour mode. Regrettably the
program is in German and there's no docs so it's a bit of an uphill
struggle. However, if you're into fractals, it's worth the struggle to
achieve some outstanding results.
ALPHA v1.2 by Trisometric Developments - An easy to use shell program which
links several different viewer programs together. The system allows to to
view images in GIF, TGA, JPG, NEO, DOO, MUR, IFF, BMP, MAC, MPT and Degas
formats. You can also view MPEG and FLI animations or listen to MOD music or
AVR sound samples. Alpha is not GEM based so it is able to jump to the
appropriate resolution to view the selected graphic without having to resort
to colour reducing it to the current screen resolution. The necessary file
viewers/players are included with Alpha. Thanks to Ralph Nelson-Tucker for
the translation. Runs on a 1 Mb machine but will need 4 Mb in order to
display many 256 colour and True Colour images.
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´ F.5624 ´
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ASTRO_CCD V0.90 by Dominique Beydon - Custom written image processing
software. It is specifically designed for use with the Thomson TH7852
digital camera, a device which captures images at a resolution of 218x145
(in 4096 grey levels) from a 254mm telescope. Images can be read directly
into the software via the cartridge port (although the author fails to tell
us how!). All functions of the software are specifically geared towards
enhancing astronomical data, although you can import your own TIFFs and mess
around with these instead. The main limitation is that only an area of
218x145 can be processed, although it is planned for this to be increased in
the next version. Also, only uncompressed greyscale TIFFs are supported and
the program comes with no docs.
ESCPEMU - A number of packages give you a print to disk option. This GEM-
View module allows you to view a file intended for printing on Epson 9-pin
printers. The file can also be output to a different printer via GEM-View's
printer drivers. Needs GEM-View on F.4368.
GIFTOFLM V0.50 - Allows you to patch a number of GIF files together to
create an FLM animation. You can select individual files or a RUN script
created using Prism Paint. The resulting animation (as long as it is in ST
Low or TT Low res) will be viewable either by loading into Prism Paint v1.0
to 1.5 or Lexicor's FLM viewer.
HPCDTOPPM V0.50 by Hadmut Danisch - Converts Kodak PCD files (at their
various resolutions) into Portable PixMap (PPM) format or
PostScript/Encapsulated PostScript formats. Convert the PPM output to
something more useful using GEM-View. Several user definable settings can be
used in the conversion process.
HP CHROME V1.5 by Rufus Developments - Prints colour pictures on any HP
Deskjet (even mono ones, assuming you have a colour kit fitted of course!).
You can adjust the colour rendering to suit and print out using one of three
quality settings. Pictures can even be cropped or viewed. This latest
upgrade supports the printing of Degas, NEO, TNY, GIF, TIFF, IMG, RAW and
Spectrum 512 pictures.
CONVERT - Converts picture files to and from Degas (PI? and PC?, any res),
Neo, Art Director, PicWorks (any res), Stad, Doodle and IMG formats.
XGRABBER V0.24 by Christian Pick - A screen grabber which works in any
resolution. Rather unusually it is triggered using a Jaguar Joypad or from
the fire button of a joystick in one of the STE extended joystick ports
(details of how to make an adaptor to let a normal joystick be used, are
included. This makes it suitable for grabbing screens from non-GEM based
programs. Saves in an odd format but includes utilities to convert images to
Degas, RAW or TPI formats. Docs in German but we've done a RUF translation.
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´ S-F.5726 & S-F.5727 ´
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S-F.5726 & S-F.5727 PERSISTENCE OF VISION RAYTRACER V3.00 - A reliable
stable followup to POV 2.2 has finally arrived on the Atari thanks to Doug
Little's porting of the PC sources. This latest version is downwardly
compatible with POV 2.2 but with dozens of new features and bug fixes.
Amongst the new features is the ability to render a screen preview when
running on a Falcon. Another major improvement is the incorporation of the
faster routines from FTPOV. Like v2.2, this version features hundreds of
scenes for you to render yourself, all grouped according to your level of
experience. The on-disk manual's huge, running to over 800K and is very well
written, starting out with an easy to understand introduction to ray
tracing, then moving progressively to the more advanced stuff. It also
includes several detailed tutorials, all aimed at different ability levels.
All support files for these tutorials are also included in the package. In
addition there are a few Atari specific files detailing the Atari specific
features of POV 3. You can run POV 3 from a CLI or from Dirk Klemmt's
POVShell which has been included for your convenience. We have also included
Dirk Klemmt's POV Tools which let you convert CAD3D2 files to POV, POV files
into GIF or FLI format or create a POV scene from a TGA file. There's also
various utilities which let you create lissajous, build helixes from a
torus, create spiral textures on spheres, create b-splines from cones and
spheres, create xtal shapes and twisted objects. Please note that this
package does not include the source code. There's over 6 Mb of data crammed
onto these disks! Needs 2 Mb and a hard drive (if you don't have a hard
drive, we recommend the POV 2 package on S-F.4512 & S-F.4513). This version
effectively replaces an earlier release by Szymon Stazik. This package
includes the 68030 (PAK or Falcon), 68030 (TT or Falcon with FPU) and 68040
(Afterburner, Medusa, Hades etc) versions.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.5768 ´
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EscAPE PAINT v0.5E by Norman Feske - True colour graphics package with lots
of different paste modes, real-time zoom, custom interface and on-line help.
Apart from TGA, most of its supported filetypes are rather obscure but it's
easy enough to convert anything into TGA format. The tools are pretty basic
but what sets EscAPE Paint above so many others is the ability to customise
just about every tool or mode to suit, something which lets you create your
own variations to what's supplied as standard. EscAPE Paint is unique in
that it can be launched from any resolution but drawing is always done in
True Colour, although the tool selection is done in the mode the program was
launched from. This is particularly useful if running on a VGA monitor as
you can have an 80 column 16 or 256 colour display for selecting the tools
and flip into True Colour to carry out the actual drawing and retouching. A
modular program with a handful of modules included and docs on how to write
your own (in assembler).
STEREO IMAGE SYSTEM (STIS) v2.0 by Phillip O'Neal - Allows you to create 3D
images from True Paint/Prism Paint pictures. These can then be viewed on
your screen without special glasses. The images take longer for some people
to see than others and it can be quite difficult to focus on your first
picture correctly. However, if you can successfully see one, the rest will
come naturally. Several example images are included on disk and print out is
supported to Epson compatibles. STIS is no longer restricted to working with
16 colour pictures and runs on any ST, STE, TT or Falcon.
FLICONV - Converts an FLI into FLM format. Be warned, FLM files are massive
compared to FLIs!
INFOMPEG V1.0 by Dennis Lee - Returns information such as number of frames,
screen size, average frame (in bytes) and compression ratio. Really needs to
be run from a CLI, otherwise output goes off the screen too fast.
IMG2PS V0.2 - Converts monochrome IMG files into Postscript EPS format.
SCAN IT by Trade IT - A Shareware front end for colour flatbed scanners. The
software supports loading of GIF, ESM, IMG & STAD formats and includes a
number of image processing and image conversion tools which you can play
around with. The saving of images (except monochrome) is disabled in the
version and the scanner drivers are not included, although you get the
appropriate one for your scanner when you register. Unfortunately both
software and docs are in German although we've done a RUF translation.
FILTER V1.0 by Bartosz Jakub Iljaszewicz - Performs a similar function to
the despeckle filter in PhotoShop. In other words, it removes regular screen
distortions and smoothes the colours. It only reads/writes Targa Type 2
files, but is invaluable when working with old photographs.
FLI_CONV - Converts an FLI animation into FLM format. Be warned, FLM files
can be massive. These can be replayed using Lexicor's FLM player (also on
disk).
FLM PLAY by Lexicor - Allows you to play FLM animations (commonly found on
PC CD ROMs) on any ST, STE, TT or Falcon.
GVW_030 - A collection of Falcon specific modules for use with GEM-View.
They allow you to load PI9, TPI, TRP and TRU formats and save in PI9 format.
MANDEL by Robert Stiles - Yet another fractal image generator. This one
includes complete C and 68882 assembler sources. Just one catch, you must
have an FPU fitted in your Falcon.
M_PLAYER V2.86 - One of the most versatile multi-media players around. It
can handle Quicktime movies (with sound), AVI animations (with sound) and
the popular FLI/FLC animations. OK so it can't handle every file you throw
at it, but it has a pretty impressive success rate. Frame rates vary but
average out at around 15-25 fps. Also runs on a TT fitted with a NOVA or
Crazy Dots 2 card. Needs lots of memory (these files can be massive!). If
you run out of memory you will usually get the animation replayed without
sound.
TCSNAP v1.51 by Patrice Bensoussan - An ACC based snapshot utility for use
in True Colour modes. You can save the entire screen, any selected area of a
screen or the contents of the top window only. Screens are saved in TG1
(also known as coke) format.
XCOPY-POV V0.9 by Fabrice Grainger - Allows you to make copies of objects
created for use with Persistence Of Vision Raytracer v2. Includes very
detailed instructions but unfortunately they are in French.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.5881 ´
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ANIMATOR v1.0 by Laurent Chaussy - A useful utility which lets you load up a
number of TGAs and combine them into an FLC (or its own P2D format) file.
You can also digitise still frames (taking separate shots for the red, green
and blue components) using a video camera or the freeze frame of video
recorder and recombine the component parts within this program. I assume
Vidi-ST or VideoMaster would be used to interface the camera/VCR to the
Falcon although no mention of a specific digitising device is made. Similar
in concept to MPEG Fever on F.5470 but outputting FLC and P2D rather than
MPG files. Program and docs in French, would anyone like to translate?
AVI030 V0.51 by STGhost of Sector One - Lets you play AVI animations on your
Falcon. You can play either sound or animation or both. Sound is handled by
the DSP. Simply drop an AVI file onto AVI030's program icon or install it as
an Application with the document type set to AVI. Also includes a GEM shell
so you can use the fileselector. Doesn't currently support the CVID format
of AVIs but copes well with other types. Docs in English and French.
GIF TRANS V0.1B by Daniel Fischer - Lets you create 'transparent' GIFs for
use in your HTML documents. Select which of the 256 colours is to be treated
as transparent and the file will be re-saved with the transparency set
accordingly.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.5900 ´
זלללללללל¶
QUICKTIME PLAYER V0.96 by Dieter Fiebelkorn - Lets you view Quicktime movies
(MOV files) on your ST/E. These files are typically found on PC and MAC
CD's. This version of the player only supports CVID 24 bit and does not play
the sound, but it's a start! Optimised versions for 020+ processors and
FPU's are also included.
ALVI V0.05B by Uwe Haase - A JPEG viewer. Despite what the docs say, you
must run ALVI from the Desktop (i.e. drag & drop etc don't work). The
current version runs in any resolution but only displays the image in
monochrome. Image can be displayed at various zoom levels. Its main claim to
fame is its speed at loading without having to use the DSP.
GIF MERGE V1.33 by Mark Podlipec & Rene Mueller - Reads a GIF91 file
(presumably a script file) and merges the listed GIFs into a single
animation file. You can control the speed of animation, starting frame,
looping, transparency and more. Regrettably the docs are very sparse.
PNG by Eric Prevoteau - Load and Save modules for GEM-View which allow it to
handle PNG files (Compuserve's replacement for GIF). Just drop them into the
appropriate GEM-VIEW folders, it's as simple as that.
JPEGDEMO.RIM by Eric Cunha - A demo version of an M&E JPEG loader module for
use on STs and TTs. Works with Bitmap View.
BORDURE by Denis Miguel - Creates a border (within the image's original
boundaries) of the size and colour you specify around any 8-bit or 24-bit
(Type 2 or 3) TGA image. You can even allow the image to gradually fade into
the border and specify settings for this too! Docs in French but easy to
figure out.
REDUCE TGA V2.0 by Denis Miguel - Lets you resize any 24-bit or 8-bit (Type
2 or 3) TGA image by typing in a percentage (for each axis) or the exact
dimensions (in pixels) required. Once again French but obvious.
ROTATE TGA V1.0 by Denis Miguel - Rotates an 8-bit or 24-bit (Type 2 or 3)
TGA by a specified number of degrees. The image's size is increased to avoid
cropping. It can be displayed on a black background or using a tiled effect
with multiple copies of the image being used as the background to give a 3D
effect. Once again French but obvious.
All Denis Miguel's TGA utilities work blind (i.e. without displaying the
image) so they can be run from any resolution without affecting the image
quality.
AVI_QT V1.10 by Guillaume Tello - Another Quicktime and AVI movie player. It
scores over Dieter Fiebelkorn's version by being faster (as its written in
assembler) and having sound support. It supports MOV files with CVID
compression only and AVIs with CVID and CRAM16 compression. 8/16 bit sound
is supported in TWOS or RAW format and sound/video can be played together or
separately (if sync problems occur). Can be run from the Desktop or files
dropped onto its icon. Runs on a Falcon in True Colour and a TT in 256
colours (with lots of RAM) or with a NOVA card.
AVI PLAYER V0.3 by Seb of The Removers - Install as an Application then you
need only double-click AVIs to run them. Like AVI_QT, this program also
supports sound, although quality is variable. It has the advantage of
playing direct from disk, useful if memory is low. Uses the DSP for speed.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.5985 ´
זלללללללל¶
FLI PLAYER V1.08 by Seb - Install as an application then simply double-click
FLI animations from the Desktop to replay them.
PICCOLO V1.00 by Frederic Bayle - A cut down version of Parx's D2M which is
designed to demonstrate the use of their M&E modular system. It lacks a
decent set of tools but does load and save in a variety of formats using the
Parx M&E modules. A small selection of these modules are supplied and a
fuller distribution version of them is available on F.4787. Using the M&E
modules you can input images directly from Vidi-ST, select from a variety of
colour reduction methods to obtain best results, and apply various effects
to your images. With the full version of the M&E modules, the functionality
of this package is further extended.
EB MODEL V2.75A by Emmanuel Baranger - A universal 3D modeller for use with
several different raytracing package. It imports scripts from POV, CLOE and
3D Studio (on the PC). The ability to export files in anything other than
EB-Model's own format is reserved for registered users. EB-Model simplifies
the process of setting up cameras and lighting for your scene with the use
of movable objects in a GEM window rather than the hit or miss approach of
entering the data by hand into script files. The program includes pre-
calculated objects (segments, boxes, prisms, tubes, spheres, pyramids, cones
and more) and there's a library feature which lets you store copies of your
own objects for use in other scenes. You can even spin and extrude shapes
and create fractal landscapes. Your creation can of course be viewed from
different elevations. The program uses the 'modern face of GEM' with colour
icons, movable windows, 3D interface and so forth. Unfortunately the docs
are entirely in French although the program is in English. Multi-tasking
friendly, needs 4 Mb and a hard drive.
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´ F.6064 ´
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MEGA-BIT V1.1D by Thomas Much - Converts GEM Metafiles into bitmapped files
at resolutions of up to 32766 x 32744 pixels. They can be saved in IMG, TIF
or PCX formats or as multiple PI3, PIC, PAC or GFA Block screens.
EUREKA V2.12 by Francois le Coat - A combined statistical analysis/3D
modelling package. You need to understand mathematical functions to O
Grade/Standard Grade/GCSE level at a minimum in order to make use of this
program. You start out by creating a graph using one of the supported
formulae or the Julia or Mandelbrot fractal sets, then map your graph onto
one of the supplied 3D surfaces. Your creations can also be made into 3D
animations. In addition, Eureka can also import images and animations
created using the Persistence Of Vision raytracer. Docs in French, program
in English and French. UK support through Cyberstrider. Needs at least 2 Mb.
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´ F.6090 ´
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3DP by Rudelli Paolo - Allows you to quickly an easily create 3D models for
use with POV Raytracer v2. You can adjust the viewing angle and the position
of the camera to suit. The resultant image is displayed in its own window as
a wireframe graphic and can be saved as an object or output as a POV script
file ready to be cut and pasted into your main script. Several example
objects are supplied as well as POV scripts of these. Easy to use if you
know the basics of raytracing but unfortunately the program and all docs are
in French.
DEMO_RWI - A collection of demo modules for use with packages which support
Parx Software's M&E modules (BV4, Picolo and others). The full versions of
these modules are commercially available from Parx. They include printer
drivers for the Canon BJC-4000 and BJC-70, HP Deskjet 500C and 550C, Epson
Stylus Colour, and import modules for the Paragon Mustek M1200D3P, M600D3P,
M600DSP, M600S2D flatbed scanners and the Vidi ST digitiser in 256 colours
or True Colour (Falcon only). Just drop them into the appropriate folders
inside your PARX.SYS folder and they are ready for use.
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חלללללללל†
´ F.6091 ´
זלללללללל¶
IRIS VIEWER v1.2 by The Eagles - A picture viewer with a difference. Select
a directory and it will create thumbnails (miniatures) of all images in that
directory, 12 to a page. Move the mouse over a thumbnail to display the file
name, dimensions and file size. Click onto it to display that image at full
size. You can also select any image from its directory and display in
fullscreen mode. Moving the mouse lets you pan around large images and the
left button flips between actual size and x2 with small images. Loads FLI,
LVS, GIF, TGA and JPG formats. RGB only.
FLIX WORK PACK v1.46E by Remi Vanel -A collection of 10 utilities concerned
with the manipulation of FLC/FLH animation files along with the Apex Media
viewers.
CAT FLH V1.01 - Stitches two FLH (Apex Media True Colour animations)
together to make a single longer animation. CAT FLH loads and saves direct
to disk, making it particularly useful if you don't have the memory to load
both at once. This Shareware version is limited to combined lengths of 20
images or less, register for the full version.
CONV FLH V1.0 - Converts PC True Colour DTA animations into Apex Media's FLH
format and vice versa.
FLH2TGA V1.26 - Converts an Apex Media FLH image into a series of TGA
images. By default, it misses out any duplicate frames to save disk space.
Several user options allow an element of control over the output.
FLI2TGA V1.14 - Converts an FLI or FLC animation into a series of TGA
images. Like FLH2TGA, this program also skips duplicate files by default.
PLAY FLI V1.0 - Plays any FLI or FLC animation. You can launch it from the
Desktop, drop the anim onto it or install it as an application so that
FLI/FLC files can be double-clicked to play them. PLAY FLH V1.3 - As per
PLAY FLI but this one is for use with the True Colour FLH files produced by
Apex Media.
REDIM FLH V1.0 - Lets you resize Apex Media's FLH animations by clipping
them to the animated area or zooming a small animation to fill the screen.
Writes the new FLH direct to disk, so you can use this program even if there
is insufficient memory to load the entire animation.
REDUCE FLI V1.0 - Lets you extract any part of an FLH animation to a
separate file. You specify the start frame and number of frames required.
SPEED FLX V1.0 - Lets you adjust the playback speed of any FLI/FLC/FLH
animation.
TGA2FLH v1.22 - Create an FLH animation from a succession of sequentially
numbered 24-bit TGAs. You can specify which image to start with, the
animation speed and a few other parameters.
APEX VIEWERS - These allow you to view GIF, JPG and TGA images or run
FLI/FLC/FLH animations by dropping the item onto the viewer or installing
the viewer, allowing the files to be double-clicked from the Desktop.
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´ F.6123 ´
זלללללללל¶
ANONYMOUS GIF ANIMATION TOOL (AGATE) V1.2 - A useful program which takes a
256 colour FLC file and converts it to an GIF animation for use on the WWW.
It attempts to save only the animated area rather than the full 640x480
screen. Lots of options allow transparency, interlace and other attributes
to be specified.
IFX_MATR by Eric Da Cunha - Two new special effects modules for use with
packages which support Parx Software's M&E modules. These are demo versions
which perform convolutions (on True Colour images) based on a 3x3 matrix.
Being demos, you cannot save the resulting images. One version is for use on
the Falcon, the other runs on any Atari. Full versions available directly
from the author. Unfortunately the docs are in French.
FRACPACK by Eric Da Cunha - Four fractal generating modules for use with any
program which supports Parx's M&E modules. They allow you to create fractals
using the Mandelbrot, Julia, Octo, Barnsley and Phoenix sets. The less
common Newton-Raphson method is also supported as is a new method which
generates images which look like ceiling roses! These demo versions only
create fixed resolution images, use a lower level of detail and are much
slower than the full versions which may be obtained from the author. Docs in
English and French.
PLAY FLX V2.1 by Cyril Cogordan - Plays 256 colour (but not True Colour) FLI
and FLC animations. Can be used from the Desktop or installed as an
application so that FLI/FLC files may be double-clicked to launch them.
CENTVIEW by Centek - File viewer and slideshow utility. It handles most file
types and allows you to select the length of time an image is displayed. It
always resizes the image to the current screen resolution but does not work
in non-standard screen resolutions.
POVQUANT V1.60 - A collection of programs for use with DKB Raytrace or POV
Raytracer. The quantisation programs take a 24-bit TGA image and reduce it
to 16 or 256 colours using the Octree or Heckbert colour reduction methods.
ANIMDAT reads an animation source file and uses it to generate scene files
for DKB or POV Raytrace. ANIMFLI takes images generated by the quantisation
programs and builds them into an FLI animation (at a size of 320x200 only).
The docs for POVQUANT are aimed at a PC audience but should give enough
information to get you going.
GEM2PS V6.1 - Converts GEM Metafiles into PostScript or EPS format for
output to PostScript devices. It is also possible to view the structure of
the GEM file and to specify positioning on the page for the printing of its
PostScript counterpart. Text can also be used but you are restricted to
using the Helvetica font.
ANIPLAYER V2.01 by Didier Mequignon - A Freeware player for Apple's
Quicktime Movies and Microsoft's AVIs. It plays back both video and sound
and allows you to capture individual images or the entire soundtrack in a
number of popular formats. Aniplayer plays direct from disk, so a 4Mb
machine is sufficient for even the larger movies. A fast CD-ROM drive is
required in order to replay at full speed, although you can of course copy
the files to your hard drive and run them from there. Runs on any 68030
processor in at least 256 colours. True Colour display (graphic cards are
supported) is recommended as dithering down to 256 colours slows down the
animation. When running on a Falcon, the DSP is used to perform a number of
tasks (decompression being its main function). Currently most compression
types used by MOV and AVI files are supported but Aniplayer does not support
animations which exceed 320x240 in size. An impressive piece of software,
probably the best movie player yet.
ZOB - File compressor for Apex Media's True Colour files. It gives good
compression rates on hand drawn images but is fairly poor on digitised
pictures. Its purpose is merely to save disk space (the compressed files
cannot be reloaded into Apex) and a decompression program is also supplied
just in case you need to access the file again.
GRAFTOOL V4/2/96 by JJ von Bargen - One of the best graphic conversion tools
ever released. It loads images in raw screendump, BMP, GIF, IMG, JPG, GIF,
MSX II, MidiMaze, PBM, PCD, PCX, PNG, TGA and TIFF formats and saves them as
TIF, PNG, PCX, IMG or GIF. Its main claims to fame are that it can be run
from floppy disk, loads and saves files twice as fast as GEMVIEW, uses less
memory than GEM-View and it preserves the colour depth of the information
(eg; load a 256 colour image into a 16 colour resolution and it will be
displayed in 16 colours on screen but resaved as a 256 colour image with no
loss of quality over the original). It also supports the playing of DL,
FLI/FLC and GL animations. Various palette options and dithering methods are
supported as is the ability to create thumbnail catalogues of your images.
Graftool is under constant development. This version is about 95% in English
although the docs are in German (along with a RUF translation). Later
versions handle more file formats although they are not currently available
in English. This unregistered version has some limitations but registration
is free!
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´ F.6232 ´
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MORPHING V1.05 by Moise Valvassori - As the name suggests, this programs
lets you morph one image into another by generating the in between frames
and creating an animation. You can specify how many frames should be
generated, the more frames, the longer it takes to generate and the more
memory/disk space is needed. Having said that, more frames results in
smoother animations. It uses a different method to Apex Media, employing the
use of a user-defined grid to control the process. The only limitations
seems to be that it only works with 24-bit TGA images and it's very slow.
The animation is saved to disk as a series of 24-bit TGA files. These can be
stitched into an animation using MPEG FEVER on F.5470 or GIF2FLI on F.5474
(although you'd need to convert them to GIF first). The results are amazing,
even on the default settings. Both program and docs are in French, but
everything is obvious! Needs at least 4Mb, a hard drive and Multi-TOS or
MagiC (it does not work correctly under TOS). One of the most innovative
releases to date!
STELLA V2.56 by Thomas Kunneth - A file manager for graphic files. It lets
you to create file lists (shows full pathname to file) and attaches graphic
thumbnails to recognised file formats (it recognises most Atari and PC
formats) so you can easily locate the required image. It can also load
individual files or display them in a slideshow. Stella is GEM based and
runs in any resolution, dithering images down where required. There are a
few restrictions in this Shareware release, register for the unrestricted
version. An impressive release. Just one snag, both program and docs are in
German, though there is a brief English doc. GIF VIEW by Giles Audoly - A
very fast GIF file viewer. You can drag and drop files onto it or install it
as an application. It lets you lighten or darken pictures or smooth them.
You can also scroll up and down large images. Removes top, left and right
borders to give a larger display. RGB Only. VIEWXXGA by Guido Vollbeding -
XGA is a 16-bit True Colour file format first introduced with the Falcon.
This program lets you view XGA files on any Atari in any resolution. XY TGA
V IEW V1.0 by John Diot - A fast viewer program for uncompressed TGA images.
Drag and drop images onto it or install it as an application so you can
double-click TGA images to view them. XY SNAP V0.9 by John Diot - When
installed, you simply hit the key next to Backspace in order to save a
screenshot. The screen is saved in TGA format for True Colour, Degas for ST
compatible modes or IMG for all other resolutions.
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