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»23.06.1998 PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX Announces SuperView Update and Continued Support
In another step concerning the demonstration of planned further support of the "Classic Amiga" platform, including powerUP (TM), PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX today announced the upcoming release of SuperView NG 7.70, which will include at least SuperView-Library 21.3. [ Scheduled for: 30 June 1998 ]
Every user of SuperView-Library based programs, like e.g. SuperView NG itself, the ArtEffect AE SuperView plugin or Picture Manager professional (PMPro) as well as ImageEngineer users may wish to at least upgrade the SuperView-Library to a newer version - the full library release is part of the freely distributable demo version of SViewNG, as usually.
Registration only is required for SuperView & Tools itself - thus people who maybe had problems with e.g. the library shipped with the free PMPro demo from Aminet or with other semi or fully commercially distributed versions, may wish to install the new version over the old one as well.
A number of bugs have been fixed, as well as new features have been introduced. For example, there now will be the long-expected Window.svdriver plus a separate "WinSlide" tool (the latter as part of SuperView) that finally will allow to replace any remaining 3rd party tools for displaying graphics in a window on public screens...
Together with the PPC speedup modules that are available separately for SuperView-Library, new speed dimensions are to be encountered by owners of powerUP (TM) boards - the number of PPC modules already reached a count of (currently) 52 separate modules, including impressively fast ppc-native loaders/savers for e.g. JPEG, PNG and TIFF. (*)
Here's a small overview of the programs features:
(*) PPC modules currently based on ppc.library V45
Includes licensed SuperView-Library, which supports the following file formats, periphal devices, display drivers and image processing operators:
SVObjects: - IFF-ACBM - Windows,OS/2 BMP - PNM (PBM,PGM,PPM) IFF-ILBM - JPEG (JFIF v6) - IMG (GEM Graphics) IFF-DEEP - PhotoCD - WPG (WP Bitmaps) IFF-FAXX - TIFF - MacPaint MAC IFF-PBM - PCX - EPS (Header/PS) IFF-RGB8 - Atari Degas - C64 (Koala,Doodle) IFF-YUVN - Windows Icon - CDR-Previews QRT/POV Raytrace - Mac PICT-2 - SGI SVG - Targa - Pictor/PCPaint SunRaster - UtahRLE - PNG FBM - XWD - Amiga Icons (WB/Magic/New) IFF-RGFX - TIM - CVP (passphoto)
as well as all OS3-Datatypes and 24 Bit DataTypes (picture.datatype V43).
Many formats with 24 Bit-Support. Reads XPK- and PP20-packed data via Unpack.svobject.
Writes C-Sourcecode in chunky/RGB notation.
Together with external third party programs also the following file formats seamlessly can be embedded:
File Format needs program also needs support for -------------------------------------------------------- AMF MetaView (ILBM) CLP MetaView (ILBM) DXF/AutoCAD (tm) MetaView (ILBM) FIG AmiFIG (Postscript) or: MetaView (ILBM) CGM GPlot (Postscript) or: MetaView (ILBM) IFF-DR2D MetaView (ILBM) IFF-DRSD MetaView (ILBM) Limbo Limbo 4.0 (PNM) Postscript (TM) Ghostscript - WPG-Vector MetaView (ILBM) WMF MetaView (ILBM)
Devices (via SVObjects):
Scanner (scanner.device of ScanQuix) Printer (printer.device/TurboPrint/Studio)
SVDrivers :
- OCS/ECS - AGA - EGS7 OpalVision - Retina - CyberGraphX PicassoII - Merlin - Picasso96 AGA/RTG Window
SVOperators:
- Dither24Bit - 24BitToHAM - HilbertDither256 ExtractRed - ExtractGreen - ExtractBlue XOR - ExtractGrayScales - TopToBottom LeftToRight - Rotate - Scale50 AnyTo24Bit - Crop - CallPNM OptimizePalette - RotateFree - PaletteDither
plus the following from Steve Quartly:
SQBentley - SQTiling - SQThreshold SQOilPaint - SQMosaic - SQEmboss SQSlicing - SQDiffuse - SQContrast SQSharpen - SQBlur - SQDeep_Press SQMotion_Blur - SQHighPass
Overview: Supported and Non-supported Graphics Cards
Card Name Kind of Support --------------------------------------------------- 1600GX - A2410 TIGA CG EGS CyberVision64 CG P96 CyberVision64/3D CG P96 CyberVisionPPC CG DCTV - Domino CG EGS P96 DraCo Altais CG Firecracker - GDA-1 - Graffity - GVP 110/24 EGS GVP IV 24 EGS Colormaster EGS Inferno (Wildfire) CG Merlin CG P96 NAT OMniBus P96 OpalVision NAT Picasso II CG P96 NAT Picasso II+ CG P96 NAT Picasso IV CG P96 Piccolo CG EGS P96 Piccolo SD64 CG EGS P96 Rain*ow II (R-II) EGS Rain*ow III (R-III) EGS Retina Z2 EGS NAT Retina Z3 BLT CG EGS P96 NAT Spectrum CG EGS P96 Visiona EGS
As you can see, any reasonable graphics card for the Amiga is supported in some way.
(NAT = "native driver", CG = CGfx, P96 = Picasso96, EGS = EGS ;)
If you don't know about some of the mentioned products, please follow the links given below:
SuperView NG Aminet:gfx/show/SViewNG.lha http://www.amigaworld.com/support/sview/
SuperView PPC modules (upgrade) Aminet:gfx/show/svppc#?.lha http://home.t-online.de/home/Andreas_Kleinert/sviewppc.htm
Picture Manager professional 5.0 Demo Aminet:biz/demo/pm5_demo.lha http://www.blittersoft.com
ImageEngineer Aminet:gfx/edit/ImEngV3.41p1.lha and /ImEngV3.41p2.lha http://www.amigaworld.com/support/imageengineer/
SqOpal Aminet:gfx/show/SqOpal20.lha
AE SuperView http://www.haage-partner.comInformation on SuperView, SuperView-Library and ImageEngineer registration:
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX Andreas R. Kleinert Sandstrasse 1 Fax: +49-271-22869 D-57072 Siegen eMail: Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de Germany WWW: http://home.t-online.de/home/Andreas_Kleinert/«» 27.06.1998 PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX Announces Support Mailing List - Rev #2
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX, so far mainly known for their SuperView and SuperView-Library related line of products, today announced a new support mailing list for users of their freely distributable as well as shareware software products, including - but not limited to - the latter. (*)
Two lists are made available to address different groups of recipients:
ARK-DISCUSSION for discussing PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX programs and related bugs and problems and for general support Language: English prefered
ARK-ANNOUNCE for receiving the latest information and press releases from PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX [read only] Language: English
To subscribe to one of the mailing lists, simply write an email to
with "ADD ark-discussion" or "ADD ark-announce" in the subject line (leave the mailbody empty). To again unsubscribe, replace "ADD" with "DEL".
Once you have successfully subscribed, you'll receive a confirmation message from the server and may start writing your own mails.
Mails to ARK-DISCUSSION then have to be addressed to
ark-discussion@ml.amigos.line.org
For a nearly complete list of PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX software products, visit
http://home.t-online.de/home/Andreas_Kleinert/support.htm
or the homepage URL listed below - it soon will allow to subscribe/unsubscribe the mailing lists online from the WWW.
(*) the mailing list already started as with 23 June, but there had been some small routing problems at the beginning - now everything should work fine
Information on SuperView, SuperView-Library and ImageEngineer registration:
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX Andreas R. Kleinert Sandstrasse 1 Fax: +49-271-22869 D-57072 Siegen eMail: Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de Germany WWW: http://home.t-online.de/home/Andreas_Kleinert/«
