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Summary Of Changes
Version 2.01
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- Created DCTV, EGS, Picasso versions of Viewtek.
- OpalVision rendering slightly faster.
- OpalVision version supports scrolling with arrow keys.
- Space bar can be used while picture is being read.
- SCREENMODE now works for animations.
- Tool types work in project icons.
- Recompiled with SAS 6.50.
- Retina version now supports scrolling, and centering.
- Created Viewtek.guide documentation file, with updated text.
If you don't have AmigaGuide or MultiView, you'll have to use
a hypertext viewer utility such as "ShowHyp", or suffer through
the embedded codes.
- Supports alpha channels in ILBMs.
- Various other minor problems fixed.
Version 2.00 (this was an unofficial beta)
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- New documentation, distribution conditions.
- Recompiled with SAS 6.3 resulting in minor overall speed improvements.
- Graphic handling somewhat rewritten.
- New versions for OpalVision, Retina, Firecracker, DCTV.
- Keyboard may now be used to skip images.
- "Configuration" file may now be used for frequently used options.
- New NOCLICK option to disable mouse button actions.
- Uses WriteChunkyPixels under V40 if appropriate.
- New GIF decoding; somewhere around 15%-30% faster (on my A4000, at least).
- Playback from disk now heeds DPAN chunks.
- Fixed problem of LMB not working sometimes when playing anims.
- Fixed improper handling of directories using playback from disk.
- Fixed unfreed chip memory in playback from disk (oops).
- Fixed enforcer hit if JPEG screen open fails.
- CTRL-C in the starting CLI may be used to stop Viewtek.
- Fixed mungwall hit after viewing greyscale JPEG.
- Fixed enforcer hits showing contents of clipboard.
- Shows Amiga icon files, for no particular reason.
- MakeAnim7 has SHORT and LONG options to force short/long compression.
- MakeAnim7 now *really* preserves unknown chunk types. :)
- Various other minor additions/changes/corrections here and there.
Version 1.05 (released with ImageFX 1.5)
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- MakeAnim7 preserves unknown chunk types.
- 640x480 GIFs assume Productivity mode under AGA.
- Removed V39 double-buffering, which caused 'palette-changing'
animations not to work.
- Animations may be played directly from disk.
- 'S' key will save images while viewing them.
- Supports XPK to read compressed images/animations.
- Supports V39 datatypes to read unknown file types.
- New 2-letter abbreviations for all CLI options.
- Added UNDERSCAN option to disable overscan for all images.
- Added INFO option to only display file info, not the image.
- Added POINTER option to leave the mouse pointer visible.