Short:    Highest quality JPEG viewer (for AGA)
Author:   Guenther@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de (Guenther Roehrich)
Uploader: Guenther@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de (Guenther Roehrich)
Type:     gfx/show

jpegAGA is, at this time, the highest quality JPEG viewer (if a map-file for
that picture is available) To use it you need the AGA chipset, a 68020 or
higher processor and OS 3.0 or higher. This program uses the HAM8-mode, gray-
scale display will use 256-color-mode. Although jpegAGA 2.0 has many new
features it is still fully compatible to the previous versions.

If a precomputed colormap (a file with the ending .map) is available then
the picture will be displayed in a much higher quality compared to all other
viewers.

History
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1.0 - 4-June-1994

    - first public release

1.1 - 5-October-1994

    - added the option -SUPER72

    - the picture screen no longer flashes when closing it and the delay is much
      smaller now

    - map-files will also be searched in the directory pointed to by the MAPDIR
      environment variable

    - if a map-file is not found the user will get informed that he/she should
      create one

    - file/path names of any length are now accepted

2.0 - 14-January-1995

    - slightly faster

    - the ixemul.library is not needed any more

    - version 5A of the JPEG source from the Independent JPEG Group is used
      (instead of V4 in jpegAGA 1.x)

    - input buffer size is now 32768 bytes, normal dos.library calls will be
      used for all file operations

    - added the options -SCALE, -FIT, -NOSMOOTH, -DCT FAST and -SMR

    - added the background loading feature

    - pressing the Esc button will completely stop the program, pressing the
      right mouse button switches to the next picture

    - the picture screen opens with the correct colors, no flashing after
      opening

    - multiple files and wildcards are supported, at any place in the command
      line

    - selecting the pictures with a file requester is possible

    - full Workbench support, but there is still no GUI

    - messages in the console window are much better

    - there is now a makefile for the Aztec compiler supplied with the source
      
    - enhanced the HAM8 encoder, if you move the picture screen around the
      errors on the left side will be much smaller