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- __ __ __\ / __ __ IFF2ANSI v1.0 __ __ __\ / __ __
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- / \ Coded by Jotes of Fraxion / \
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- © Copyrighted by Jotes of Fraxion in 1995 ©
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- CONTENTS
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- Iff2Ansi - The Iff2Ansi converter itself..
- Iff2Ansi.doc - The file you are reading now.
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- AIntro.exe - A little Ansi (Intro!!) by me.. works only on KS13
- machines.. so use rekick.
- Ansi.manual - An ansi code manual.
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- What is it ?
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- Its an iff lowres/hires 1-3 bitplane picture to ansi text converter.. It
- converts an iff picture to a text file that can be typed in shell or
- placed as an add in a LHA/DMS archive.
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- Why use it ?
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- If you tryed to unpack a dms file on an amiga with kickstart 2.0+, you will
- see that the gfx will be corrupted on the add made by most other iff2ansi
- converters.
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- Offcourse it has some drawbacks. The text file generated will be a
- bit bigger and slower than the other converters.. but so what, it
- don't FUCKS up on kickstart 2.x+ machines. (future versions will be
- able to produce KS20 (only) ansi code, so if you want speed instead
- of compatibility with KS13 you can choose that)..
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- It has a easy to use intuition inferface, with many configurations (more
- to come in the future).
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- How to use ??
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- Just type Iff2Ansi and hit one of the buttons...
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- TEST : Output the converted picture to a window to se how it
- looks like.
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- LOAD : Load an iff picture into the buffer.
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- CONVERT : Convert the picture in the buffer to ansi.
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- SAVE : Save the ansi to disk.
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- ABOUT : Display some information, and a mini doc.
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- There is also some other configurations you could change:
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- Offset : Offset in pixels from the top of the window.
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- Cursor : Where to place the cursor on the screen, auto-calculated
- when loading a picture..
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- Height : Height of the picture.. When changed, the cursor will be
- updated as well.
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- Mode : This works only on lowres pictures.. If CMP is choosed, it
- compresses the picture by 50%, and center it on the screen.
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- History:
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- v0.9ß1 - finaly a guru free version.. missing some texts.
- v0.9ß2 - put in some checks here and there, plus some text.
- - installed the -h and ? option.
- v0.9ß3 - optimized the output file size by aprox. 20 %...
- v0.9ß4 - support for 4 color (2 bitplane) pictures.
- v0.9ß5 - dont mess with the WB screen if not neccessary.
- - fix some probs with the KS20 text compatibility.
- - remove blank lines automatically.
- v0.9ß6 - now uses req.library for requesters ..
- v0.9ß7 - installed a intuition interface..
- - hires support.
- - now with 3 bitplanes (8 colors).
- v1.0 - first released version.
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- send BUGREPORTS and SUGGESTIONS to
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- Midnight Caller BBS +47-22-680671
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- by internet
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- jts@oslonett.no
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- by snailmail
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- Jotes, Sarsgt.48, 0564 Oslo 5, Norway..
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