Purpose
SViewII is a program that has been designed for the purpose, to display,
convert and process any kind of bitmapped graphics as fast and as
comfortable as possible.
Fast means not only fast in reading and displaying but also in calling
and using the program.
Highest possible flexibility is implemented via a native modularian system,
consisting of the superview.library, the SVObjects, SVDrivers and
SVOperators.
These intentions resulted in a bundle of features and options
you have access to when using SViewII and installing it to your System:
- additional tools and viewers, like: - SuperViewPalette
- SuperSlide
- CyberSlide
- licensed "SuperView-Library" (see directory SuperViewLibrary)
- intensive use of many special OS V2.04+ and OS V2.1+ capabilities
- support of many OS V3.x+ and AGA graphics features,
as e.g. support of interleaved BitMaps
- support of external Fileformat-Libraries (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
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
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- AMF MetaView (ILBM)
- DXF/AutoCAD (tm) MetaView (ILBM)
- FIG AmiFIG (Postscript)
- CGM GPlot (Postscript)
- IFF-DR2D MetaView (ILBM)
- Limbo Limbo 4.0 (PNM)
- Postscript (TM) Ghostscript -
- WPG-Vector MetaView (ILBM)
- WMF MetaView (ILBM)
- support of external periphal devices (DEVICE-access SVObjects):
- Scanner (scanner.device of ScanQuix)
- Printer (printer.device/TurboPrint/Studio)
- support of external display drivers (SVDrivers):
- ECS - AGA - EGS7
- OpalVision - Retina - CyberGraphX
- PicassoII - Merlin - Picasso96
- Support of external operators (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
- "Screen-Grabbing" upto 24 Bit
- Commodity (optional)
- ARexx-Ports (optional)
- AppIcon (optional)
- AppMenu (optional)
- AppWindow (optional)
- Clipboard reading and writing
- Support of Devices, like e.g. Scanners
- Localization for OS V2.1+
- AmigaGuide OnLine-Help for OS V2.04+ (asynchroneous & localized with 2.1+)
- detailed configuration via Config-File, Cli-Options and
Workbench-Tooltypes
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Workbench-Users (optional)
- conversion of the supported File-Formats
- information about the displayed graphics via Requester,
selectable via GUI-Menu
- and more
And via the SVObjects for IFF-ILBM, IFF-ACBM, IFF-YUVN,
IFF-DEEP, IFF-PBM and IFF-RGB8:
- use of "iffparse.library" for reading and writing
- reading and writing of 32 Bit viewmodes (OS2 CAMG)
and AGA 8 Bit Colormaps (OS3 CMAP)
- intelligent CAMG-Chunk replacement routine
(if CAMG is supported)
- and more
@{i}GIF is obsolete - you neither should use nor support it any longer. If
you are doing WWW design, use PNG and JPEG instead. It's important !@{ui}
Overview: Supported and Non-supported Graphics Cards
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Card Name Kind of Support
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1600GX -
A2410 TIGA CG EGS
CyberVision64 CG P96
CyberVision64/3D 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 NAT
Spectrum CG EGS P96
Visiona EGS
As you can see, any reasonable graphics card for the Amiga is supported
via one or more SVDrivers for emulation software, available for these.
Only some strange RGB-Port adaptors or rare framebuffers are not supported.
Shortcut Explanation
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CG = CyberGraphX or CyberGraphX-Clone available (CyberGraphics.svdriver)
EGS = EGS available (with EGSPlus this means: CG, too)
P96 = Picasso96 SVDriver available
NAT = native emulation software and SVDriver available, as long as
not already covered by the other mentions
- = nothing known about any emulation software
Created and (C) 1996-99 by Andreas R. Kleinert (Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de).
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