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Short: Picture/anim viewer, now supporting ANIM-7 for AGA!!!
Viewtek 1.04 - Another Picture/Animation Viewer
Written by Thomas Krehbiel
Updated March 1993
INTRODUCTION
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Some of you may remember an ILBM/ANIM viewer program I wrote a while back
called "TIV". Some would say that "Viewtek" is TIV 2.0, but I consider it a
totally different and much improved program (no part of TIV is in Viewtek; it
is all rewritten from scratch). (If you're using TIV now under 2.0 I
*strongly* suggest you dump it in favor of Viewtek.)
Viewtek was written with a few objectives in mind. I wanted a program
that first and foremost was totally 2.0 (and 3.0) compatible. I wanted it to
take advantage of 3.0 and the AGA chips wherever possible. I wanted it to
show ANIMs as good or better than TIV did, with support for any and all
display modes. I also wanted to be able to render decent (if not
spectacular) representations of 24-bit ILBMs, GIFs, and JPEGs. And I wanted
to keep the program internally modular enough to support 3rd party display
devices fairly easily (just in case).
The result you have before you.
NOTE
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I have no intention of supporting ANIM8 as long as there is an infinitely
superior ANIM7 format around. You, the animation user, would be wise to
petition those who would use ANIM8 to use ANIM7 instead. Unless you *want* a
less efficient animation format. 'Nuff said.
The included utility MakeAnim7 can be used to convert existing animations
(5's or 8's) into the ANIM7 format.
I have also included the documentation I received that describes the
ANIM7 format. To the best of my knowledge, there are no limitations on
its distribution.
TEK