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- TIV 1.5l
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- New Features/Bug Fixes
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- New To 1.5l (10-Mar-91) [Public]:
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- - Pointer now DEFINITELY remains OFF under any circumstance.
-
- - Allowed "escaping" filenames so you can show files with the
- same name as options. Eg. "TIV nohalfbrite 'hal'".
-
-
- New To 1.5k (5-Mar-91) [Private]:
-
- - Added [NO]LMB option to let left mouse button skip pictures.
-
- - HAM-E super bitmaps finally work as they should.
-
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- New To 1.5j (1-Mar-91) [Private]:
-
- - No longer crashes on 0 bitplane ILBMs (ie. Dpaint stencils).
-
- - Added hook for calling external program for displaying GIF's,
- even though I haven't written the external program that it
- would call yet.
-
- - Shift + Arrows will scroll faster in a super bitmap picture.
-
- - If a file `TIV.Defaults' is found in an ALL directory, it is
- now parsed for options. Lets you have options specific to
- a certain directory.
-
- - Negative numbers in Defaults Files now parsed correctly.
-
- - Abbreviations should work properly now.
-
-
- New To 1.5i (27-Feb-91) [Private]
-
- - I believe I've fixed the problem of ANIM brushes crashing under
- Workbench 2.0. Not entirely sure why what I did fixed it, tho...
-
- - I also think I've fixed the occasional sprite "stripe" when
- turning off sprite DMA.
-
- - Fixed file requester problem of not finding file in current dir.
-
- - Fixed bug that caused crash and memory loss when aborting a
- DELAY timeout prematurely.
-
- - TREMENDOUSLY improved Super bitmap scrolling. Should also
- handle HAM-E super bitmaps "correctly".
-
- - Pointer should not appear anymore on Screens.
-
-
- New To 1.5h (24-Feb-91) [Private]
-
- - Now contains a kludge to show Opcode J movies using the external
- program `Movie', which should be in your command path.
-
- - Ugh, fixed it to handle older non-standard BMHD's again.
-
- - Fixed bug that caused LOOP x animations to exit TIV when the
- animation had finished its loop.
-
- - Now TIV will skip on to the next file when it is finished playing
- a sampled sound with a LOOP value, instead of just sitting around.
-
- - DELAY now can be used with or without the Information Window,
- and takes effect if the object you are viewing will not end by
- itself via. a LOOPS command.
-
- - An ALL specification in Tool Types now works properly.
-
- - Hallelujah! Fixed a major bug in View code, which could cause serious
- memory fragmentation and gurus (at least, I hope I did!).
-
- - Fixed that annoying trashed screen between slideshow'ed animations
- in View mode.
-
- - Fixed a possibility of an infinite loop when REPEAT was
- specified and an ALL directory or pattern match was not found.
-
-
- New To 1.5g (21-Feb-91) [Private]
-
- - Oops, fixed DHAM and DRES back the way they should have been,
- which seems to work alright for non-interlaced but is not
- always successful with interlaced.
-
- - Added options to specify overscan offset on the command line,
- or in Workbench ToolTypes.
-
- - Well, you may or may not like this, but I've completely changed
- the command line option format. It is now more like the regular
- Workbench CLI command format. So to do what used to be `-vcr0'
- you now do `VIEW CONT RATE 0'. Don't worry, in a lot of cases
- you can abbreviate to 2 or 3 letters.
-
- - Also changed the Workbench Tooltypes to be the same as the CLI
- options. EG: `NOVIEW' on CLI would be `VIEW=NO' in Workbench.
-
- - Added an `S:TIV.Defaults' file which allows specifying frequently
- used options automatically, without having to type them.
-
- - More efficient color cycling, plus animations are now allowed
- to color cycle. TAB key also toggles cycling during animation
- playback.
-
- - Can now playback any length stereo sound samples.
-
- - Super-bitmap Dynamic pictures (SHAM, DHAM, DRES) are not allowed.
-
- - No longer have to specify NOINFO if a file you are trying to display
- has an icon that TIV doesn't understand.
-
- - Fixed bug that allowed HOLDFIRST and HOLDLAST even without a TIV
- Information Window.
-
- - YES! ANIM BRUSHES *FINALLY* WORK!!! Thanks to the guys in the
- PLink Graphics Conference for tips!
-
- - New options `HIRES' and `LACE' to force screen modes for brushes
- and ANIM brushes.
-
- - Okay, I give up on Dynamic Hires and Dynamic HAM pictures... as
- a temporary kludge I'm taking the Mostra route and executing
- Dyna-Show if a picture contains a CTBL chunk. Lousy way to do it,
- so it's optional.
-
-
- New To 1.5f (19-Feb-91) [Private]
-
- - Fixed Modes display in information window.
-
- - *ALMOST* got Dynamic Hires and AHAM pictures working... not bad,
- considering the TOTAL LACK OF INFORMATION on these modes...
-
- - Fixed ^D to skip pictures and ^C to abort TIV while viewing
- stuff without the Information Window.
-
- - Now the hold on first frame puts the animation into pause mode,
- where you can use the normal animation controls instead of
- pressing the right mouse button to continue.
-
- - Fixed Bob's problem of not being able to abort a sequence such
- as `TIV15 Pics/*'. Also fixed a problem that would cause an
- infinite loop when you aborted a sequence that was supposed to
- be repeated.
-
- - Fixed bug that caused a crash when aborting the loading of an
- animation while it was loading the initial ILBM frame.
-
- - Cleaned up the No Information Window display mode a bit.
-
- - Now tries to fit full picture into an overscan screen, no matter
- what the picture's Page size is.
-
- - Will now play AudioMasterIII compressed samples.
-
- - Added RECURSIVE (-D) option to show all files in subdirectories
- when using the SHOWALL (-a) option.
-
- - Fixed horrendously stupid bug that left animations RUNNING after
- TIV had exited from a slideshow mode!
-
- - No longer crashes trying to play a sample with no sample rate
- specified in the file.
-
- - Now correctly handles `-a' with no directory given, which means
- to use the current directory.
-
- - Stack depth checking code added, so if you see a message like
- `Stack overflow', tell me what the stack size is that you were
- running it under.
-
-
- New To 1.5e (16-Feb-91) [Private]
-
- - Better display of ViewPort stuff. No longer a momentary flash.
-
- - Possibly fixed Kermit's Free Memory Twice guru when playing an
- animation in View mode. Not sure though, since I've never seen
- it happen on my computer.
-
- - Now properly offsets overscan when playing an animation in View
- mode.
-
- - Restores pointer between pictures/animations now.
-
- - Now displays pictures/animation information *while* loading, not
- after.
-
- - Pressing a mouse button while loading now skips the file. Hitting
- the close gadget while loading will exit TIV immediately, too.
-
- - Now uses the 2.0 ASL File Requester if present.
-
-
- New To 1.5d (14-Feb-91) [Private]
-
- - Added a HOLDFIRST option to hold an animation on the first frame
- until user says to go ahead and play the animation.
-
- - Control+Arrow Keys now allows you to adjust the overscan position
- of pictures or animations while viewing them, similar to DPaint.
- Mostly to correct for HAM-E images.
-
- - Unix-style pattern matching (*,?) added. EG: `TIV *.pic'
-
- - Handles more off-the-wall and non-standard ILBMs.
-
- - Super Bitmap images (ie. larger then will fit on screen) no longer
- eat chip memory for breakfast.
-
- - Better slideshow mode. No more screen flicker between pictures.
-
- - Squashed the view mode animation memory leak bug! Which might
- accidentally fix the memory thrashing problem, too. Not to
- mention the odd crashing that happened.
-
- - No longer locks up attempting to display 24-Bit pictures. Now
- ignores them.
-
- - A *little* better ANIM Brush playback now... better than most
- ANIM showers, at least. Not *quite* perfect yet.
-
- - Squashed another memory leak bug buried within my IFF reading code.
-
-
- New To 1.5c [Private]
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- - A little more accurant frame rate timing.
-
- - Zoom mode (-Z) for slightly faster animation playback speed.
-
- - Can specify files without specific information as to whether they
- are half bright or HAM to default to either one. Gee, did that make
- any sense at all??
-
- - Can change speed of animation during playback with F1 - F10.
-
- - Can toggle color cycling on/off with TAB key while viewing ILBMs.
-
- - Can now scroll around in large sized ILBMs that will not fit on
- the screen via. the arrow keys.
-
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- New To 1.5b [Private]
-
- - Changed some of the command line options and Workbench Tool Types
- to make them more logical.
-
- - No more double-imagery in VIEW mode!
-
- - Now blanks the pointer automatically when viewing a picture or
- animation. Use the new POINTER (-m) option to disable blanking.
-
- - Provides an animation timing feature to figure out how fast an
- animation can be played. Use TIMING (-t) to enable this feature.
-
- - Better error checking and recovery in SHOWALL (-a) mode. Will
- now just skip pictures/animations that cannot be viewed instead
- of aborting completely.
-
- - Fixed the problem of the mouse buttons "bouncing".
-
- - Added a NOWB (-x) option to attempt to turn WorkBench off while
- viewing pictures or animations. Use this if you are having problems
- running out of memory. You have to also turn the TIV window off,
- as well.
-
- - Now brings up file requester if no arguments given from CLI, too.
-
- - New option to just display information about file, but not actually
- view it.
-
- - Pretty extensive help screen from CLI.
-
- - Doesn't hang up now if it encounters a shorter ILBM BODY than is
- expected based on the BMHD dimensions. Now displays what it can.
-
- - Fixed the "Error: No Error" stuff that cropped up.
-
- - Now shows brushes correctly (but not ANIM brushes!! Aaargghh!!).
-
- - Prints warnings from Workbench as well as CLI.
-
- - "Sift" option to sift through *any* IFF file and print out a structured
- analysis of its contents.
-
- - Option to have animation freeze on its last frame (HALT -h).
-
- - Can now pause and single step through animations while they are playing.
- Up Arrow/Down Arrow = Pause/UnPause. Right Arrow = Step Forward.
-
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- New to 1.4 (17-Jun-90) [Public]
-
- - Supports SHAM mode ILBMs now (it was easier than I thought!).
-
- - Fixed some bugs from previous versions.
-
- - Converted some routines to assembly for a little smaller code.
-
- - Code 3K smaller from removing sprintf() reference.
-
- - Can show all IFF files in a directory (-a option).
-
- - Supports a "slideshow" mode (-e option).
-
- - Can now play raw sampled data files (-b option).
-
- - Code smaller due to removing a reference to wipe effects.
-
- - Removed playing animations from disk until I can make it work better.
-
- - Rewrote IFF handling routines.
-
- - Incompatible with TIV 1.3 (as far as animations with sound)!!
-
- - Escape key to abort multiple IFF viewing.
-
-
- New To 1.3 (31-May-90) [Public]
-
- - Name change from "Tiff" to "TIV".
-
- - Better handling of ANIMs with synchronized sounds.
-
- - Added the Sounds Directory for ANIMs with sound.
-
- - Can now specify more than one file on the command line.
-
- - Now works from Workbench via. Default Tool or extended selection.
-
- - Keeps that Workbench window active at all costs for RMB presses.
-
- - Also you can put ToolTypes in IFF Project Icons for each IFF.
-
- - Can now play any length 8SVX sample via. double-buffering.
-
- - Now handles color cycling ILBMs (finally!).
-
- - Can now abort an 8SVX playing in progress with RMB.
-
- - Correctly centers ILBMs and ANIMs with interlaced Workbench.
-
-
- New To 1.2 [Private]
-
- - Good question.
-
- - I think it sorta handles an ASND with frame 1 of the animation now.
-
-
- New To 1.1 [Public]
-
- - Correctly handles overscanned ILBMs or ANIMs on a MoreRow'ed WB.
-
- - Correctly handles ILBMs that are larger than will fit on screen.
-
- - Will interpret ASND chunks in an ANIM file to playback sounds
- with the animation.
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