From zerkle Thu Jul 6 06:58:57 1995 Received: by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA26307; Thu, 6 Jul 95 06:58:56 PDT Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA26295; Thu, 6 Jul 95 06:58:47 PDT Received: from clustrol.informatik.rwth-aachen.de by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (4.1/campino-8) id AA03759; Thu, 6 Jul 95 15:58:36 +0200 Received: by clustrol.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (1.37.109.4/POOL.1) id AA29118; Thu, 6 Jul 95 15:57:42 +0200 From: hhoff@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Message-Id: <9507061357.AA29118@clustrol.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu Date: Thu, 6 Jul 95 15:57:41 MESZ Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Subject: REVISE CyberShow 3.0: Viewer for AGA&CyberGfx (incl. PCD-Support) Errors-To: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu X-Server: Zserver v0.90beta Status: RO revise dan TITLE CyberShow VERSION 3.0 AUTHOR Helmut Hoffmann Rubensstrasse 4 41063 Moenchengladbach Germany EMail: hhoff@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de DESCRIPTION An universal picture viewer (incl. PhotoCD) and converter for all Amigas and esp. for Cybergraphic users. This program can display pictures in many file formats (see below) directly in windows on the Workbench (default public screen) or in a window on a separate screen. If you have a suitable graphic board with Cybergraphic WB emulation installed you can even watch the pictures in full color quality (HiColor/TrueColor) on your Workbench. Without Cybergraphics the normal color restrictions (2 to 256 colors) will lead to a reduced quality, but smart pen allocation during displaying will still give surprisingly high quality with 256 colors. You can switch forward and backward between images and scroll images in their resizable windows. An automatic preloading feature will reduce waiting time to a minimum. While you watch one picture (and maybe scroll it around), the next picture will already be loaded, so that it will be there if you decide to switch... You can select down- scaled loading for viewing in reduced size. Unlike many other viewers, this viewer reduces most pictures during loading and will thus be faster for reduced size loading. Additional features include conversion to some 24Bit formats (incl. JPeg, IFF-ILBM24, Targa) and fast direct transfer to famous image processing and painting programs (ImageFX, XiPaint, ArtEffect/PicoPainter). Internally supported formats for loading: 1) IFF-ILBM (1 to 24Bit incl. HAM6/HAM8) 2) PhotoCD (Base format 768x512 or 512x768 (portrait)) 3) JPeg (color and greyscale) 4) PPM/PGM/PBM (P1&P4 b&w, P5 grey, P6 color) 5) QRT (also known as dump format by PD raytracers as POV-Ray) 6) Targa 7) PCX 8) BMP (uncompressed) 9) TIF (packbit-compr./uncompr.) 10) EGS7.x window icons 11) DEEP 12) YUV 13) VLAB raw 14) RGB 15) HHsYUVSq sequence format 16) IFF-PBM (DPII) 17) ACBM 18) FBM 19) Sun raster (uncompressed) 20) MacPaint (b&w compressed 1Bit format; datafork only) 21) HHsXRL formats The additional DataType support extends this list by many formats; DataTypes can e.g. be found on Aminet in util/DType. The DataType support is very fast, so that you can also view pictures in GIF or other formats quite fast for which Datatypes exist. NEW FEATURES New since V3.0: + OS3.1 not needed anymore for displaying with 2 to 256 colors; OS3.0 is now sufficient + configurable screenmode for use of it's own screen instead of WB (or default public screen) + Viewing directory can be changed by a menu function + Increased drawing speed on standard Amiga screens SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS OS3.0 (unlike previous versions OS3.1 is not needed anymore) 4MBytes FastRAM recommended Optional for TrueColor/HighColor viewing: cybergraphics.library V40 or higher and a suitable graphic board. The Cybergraphics emulation is compatible with many graphic boards (e.g. CyberVision, Piccolo, SD64, Spectrum, Picasso2, Retina-Z3, Domino) AVAILABILITY Any Aminet site ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/gfx/board/cybershow30.lha PRICE Shareware fee upto 31st July 1995: 20DM (in europe) or 18US$ (worldwide) from 1st Aug. 1995: 30DM (in europe) or 25US$ (worldwide) DISTRIBUTABILITY Copyright by Helmut Hoffmann 1995 Limited demo version is freely distributable; registered users will receive a keyfile which enables all features. OTHER The freely distributable version has some restrictions (e.g. all pictures will only be displayed in greyscales) which disappear after you pay the shareware fee and receive a special personal keyfile (together with the latest version). Once registered, you can use new freely distributable versions as update with your keyfile. This announcement was written and submitted by Helmut Hoffmann, the author of this software package.