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- # FastMC v0.5 - ©1995 by WK-Artworks #
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- CONTENTS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Examples
- 3. Suggestions ?
- 4. Author/Status
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- 1. Introduction
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- FastMC (tm) is the fastest truecolor-emulation for 8-bit displays.
- The idea came from Stefan Kost's slow "Multicolor"-system.
- Because applications using this algorithm are the slowest we know
- we decided to write a faster one.
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- Advantages:
- -pixel-aspect and image-size are not changed
- -very high speed
- -more visible colors:
- -every color-channel (RGB) has a diffent number of shades ("eye-sensitive")
- -all 256 color-registers are used
- -rgb-values are in the usual range 0..255 (not 0.0..1.0)
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- Examples:
- -jpeg-viewer
- -ppm-viewer
- -plasma-generator
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- 2. Examples
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- Four examples are supplied:
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- * wkmp: mpeg-player which is faster than usual mpeg-viewers using
- ham8-dithering (but results look much better)
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- * plasma: algorithm taken from Stefan Kost's archieve (needs 68020+)
- Example:
- plasma 32 (resolution 320x240)
- ->29 seconds
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- * ppmview: very fast ppm-viewer (needs 68020+)
- Example:
- image: 465x768, size: 1071375, processor: M68030 40Mhz
- ->2 seconds
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- * jpegview: very fast jpeg-viewer (needs 68020+) (no source-code supplied)
- Example:
- image: 704x1002, size: 176880, processor: M68030 40Mhz
- ->10 seconds
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- This program supports the new progressive-format - but
- only color-jpeg's are displayed correctly.
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- jpegview uses some libjpeg-code created by the
- Independent JPEG Group.
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- NOTE: All programs where compiled using GCC - ixemul.library is
- required to run them.
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- 3. Suggestions
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- Because this program only uses trivial algorithms it's pure FREEWARE.
- But we're interested in receiving mc-related suggestions or programs.
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- How about a mpeg-player using this technique ?
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- 4. Author/Status
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- (i) Other projects (+=dead):
- Dust, makeHaze, mesh2tddd, mdar(+),
- iff2eps, YACPro, OPlot(+), CAGS(+), WKMC, ...
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- (ii) Address:
- For suggestions, registering, ... contact me at:
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- Andreas Maschke
- Zenkerstraße 5
- 06108 Halle/Saale
- Germany
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- Phone: ++49 (0)345/5170331
- EMail: epgbc@cluster1.urz.Uni-Halle.DE
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- (iii) Status:
- Because this program only uses trivial algorithms it's
- pure FREEWARE.
- But we're interested in receiving mc-related suggestions
- or programs.
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