ABSTRACT cybergraphics-shareware distribution for picasso ii (piccolo, domino and merlin gfx board drivers are about to be developed too - please contact us if you are interested in, please contact us.) AUTHORS Vision-Factory-Development: Frank Mariak fmariak@chaosengine.ping.de Thomas G.Sontowski marvin@sub.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de FEATURES o stable Workbench emulation; faster in 256 colours than every picassoii emulation before o dragable screens o no chipmem required for screen display o modular design, it is possible to use multiple (and different) gfx boards at one time o cybergraphics based vilintuisup.library. As long as there exist not much cybergraphics 15/16/24 bit applications the old picassoII drivers may be used. (but: use it at your own risk) o uses picasso blitter for plane to chunky conversion TO DO o 15/16/24 bit extension of the "normal" graphics.library, that means that you can open 24bit screens as standard intuition screens and that you can use all graphics.library functions on them as before. (with some limitations of course because of the missing color lookup table) o application to adjust the monitor parameters MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS o PicassoII in linear mode (!!! not segmented !!!) o Kickstart 3.x o 68020 or higher o 2 MB of fast memory PRODUCT-INFO The cybergraphics system was designed to define an independant graphics standard for graphics boards. We also wanted to continue our development of workbench emulations. We could include all our knowledge of about 3 years of gfx board software development (wb-emulation of visiona, domino, picasso and now the cybervision64). cybergraphics is based on hardware dependant monitor drivers and hardware independant libraries. This has some advantages: Bug fixes in the workbench emulation or speed optimizations is of benefit for ALL gfx boards that are supported by the cybergraphics system. There is no third like XpERT or Village-Tronic inbetween developers and users. That guarantees bug fixes and continued development of the software in the future. cybergraphics allows using of 15/16/24 screens independant of the used color model. You are able to use the cybergraphics.library functions to modify this screens. Using graphics.library functions is currently not possible but this may change in one of the next releases. cybergraphics will also be the standard workbench emulation for the soon coming (februar 95) Cybervision64 by Advanced Systems&Software. (of course including drivers for diverse graphics programs, screen promoters and much more). Right now (1.1.95) there are drivers for Maxon Cinema,Real 3D, ADPro, AmaxIV and Photogenics available. INSTALLATION First you have to use PicassoMode to create a monitorfile. (Just like you know it from the VillageTronic WB emulation). You have to set the tooltype "CUSTOM" in the village.library. The cybergraphics uses this settings as long as there is no tool under cybergraphics which can modify the monitor settings. After that you copy all supplied libraries (cybergraphics,cyberintuition & cyberlayers) to the libs: directory (the old vilintuisup.library does not work with the new cybergraphics system anymore , so you have to rename or delete it) Also rename or delete the village.library to avoid conflicts with the cybergraphics drivers. Move the new Picasso monitor driver to devs:monitors (The old picasso driver has to be deleted, too) SHAREWARE-RESTRICTIONS In the shareware release of the picasso monitor driver you are not able to use 15/16 bit screens. KNOWN BUGS o some Picasso II gfx boards produce read or bliterrors in high resolutions or high refresh frequencies. In this case you have to select a smaller refresh rate in PicassoMode. REGISTRATION The registration fee is DM50 or $30. You have to pay it to one of the following to get a full working version: Frank Mariak Thomas Sontowski Klosterstr. 7 Bensberger Marktweg 15 44135 Dortmund 51069 Köln Feel free to contact us by email or smail if you have any questions.