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CONTENTS
 1. Introduction
 2. Examples
 3. Suggestions ?
 4. Author/Status

1. Introduction
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FastMC (tm) is the fastest truecolor-emulation for 8-bit displays.
The idea came from Stefan Kost's slow "Multicolor"-system.
Because applications using this algorithm are the slowest we know
we decided to write a faster one.

Advantages:
 -pixel-aspect and image-size are not changed
 -very high speed
 -more visible colors:
   -every color-channel (RGB) has a diffent number of shades ("eye-sensitive")
   -all 256 color-registers are used
 -rgb-values are in the usual range 0..255 (not 0.0..1.0)

Examples:
 -jpeg-viewer
 -ppm-viewer
 -plasma-generator

2. Examples
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 Three examples are supplied:

 *   plasma: algorithm taken from Stefan Kost's archieve (needs 68020+)
             Example:
              plasma 32 (resolution 320x240)
              ->29 seconds

 *  ppmview: very fast ppm-viewer (needs 68020+)
             Example:
              image: 465x768,  size: 1071375, processor: M68030 40Mhz
               ->2 seconds

 * jpegview: very fast jpeg-viewer (needs 68020+) (no source-code supplied)
             Example:
              image: 704x1002,  size: 176880, processor: M68030 40Mhz
              ->10 seconds

             This program supports the new progressive-format - but
             only color-jpeg's are displayed correctly.

             jpegview uses some libjpeg-code created by the
             Independent JPEG Group.

 NOTE: All programs where compiled using GCC - ixemul.library is
       required to run them.

3. Suggestions
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 Because this program only uses trivial algorithms it's pure FREEWARE.
 But we're interested in receiving mc-related suggestions or programs.

 How about a mpeg-player using this technique ?

4. Author/Status
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 (i)   Other projects (+=dead):
        Dust, makeHaze, mesh2tddd, mdar(+),
        iff2eps, YACPro, OPlot(+), CAGS(+), WKMC, ...

 (ii)  Address:
        For suggestions, registering, ... contact me at:

                         Andreas Maschke
                         Zenkerstraße 5
                         06108 Halle/Saale
                         Germany

                   Phone: ++49 (0)345/5170331
                   EMail: epgbc@cluster1.urz.Uni-Halle.DE

 (iii) Status:
       Because this program only uses trivial algorithms it's
       pure FREEWARE.
       But we're interested in receiving mc-related suggestions
       or programs.