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           / \         Coded by Jotes of Fraxion           / \
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           ©    Copyrighted by Jotes of Fraxion in 1995    ©
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CONTENTS
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Iff2Ansi      - The Iff2Ansi converter itself..
Iff2Ansi.doc  - The file you are reading now.

AIntro.exe    - A little Ansi (Intro!!) by me.. works only on KS13 
                machines.. so use rekick.
Ansi.manual   - An ansi code manual.


What is it ?
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Its an iff lowres/hires 1-3 bitplane picture to ansi text converter.. It
converts an iff picture to a text file that can be typed in shell or 
placed as an add in a LHA/DMS archive.


Why use it ?
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If you tryed to unpack a dms file on an amiga with kickstart 2.0+, you will
see that the gfx will be corrupted on the add made by most other iff2ansi
converters. 

Offcourse it has some drawbacks. The text file generated will be a
bit bigger and slower than the other converters.. but so what, it
don't FUCKS up on kickstart 2.x+ machines. (future versions will be 
able to produce KS20 (only) ansi code, so if you want speed instead
of compatibility with KS13 you can choose that)..

It has a easy to use intuition inferface, with many configurations (more
to come in the future).


How to use ??
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Just type Iff2Ansi and hit one of the buttons...

TEST    : Output the converted picture to a window to se how it
          looks like.

LOAD    : Load an iff picture into the buffer.

CONVERT : Convert the picture in the buffer to ansi.

SAVE    : Save the ansi to disk.

ABOUT   : Display some information, and a mini doc.


There is also some other configurations you could change:
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Offset  : Offset in pixels from the top of the window.

Cursor  : Where to place the cursor on the screen, auto-calculated
          when loading a picture..

Height  : Height of the picture.. When changed, the cursor will be
          updated as well.

Mode    : This works only on lowres pictures.. If CMP is choosed, it
          compresses the picture by 50%, and center it on the screen.
          
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History:
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 v0.9ß1 - finaly a guru free version.. missing some texts.
 v0.9ß2 - put in some checks here and there, plus some text.
        - installed the -h and ? option.
 v0.9ß3 - optimized the output file size by aprox. 20 %...
 v0.9ß4 - support for 4 color (2 bitplane) pictures.
 v0.9ß5 - dont mess with the WB screen if not neccessary.
        - fix some probs with the KS20 text compatibility.
        - remove blank lines automatically.
 v0.9ß6 - now uses req.library for requesters ..
 v0.9ß7 - installed a intuition interface..
        - hires support.
        - now with 3 bitplanes (8 colors).
 v1.0   - first released version.


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