Autodesk Animator Pro Version 1.3 Bonus CD VGASHOW Viewer Help \images\vgashow.txt VGASHOW is a utility for displaying PCX, GIF, TIF, BMP,and TGA images on any SuperVGA, VGA, EGA, CGA or monochrome screen. It is produced by Videotex Systems (Dallas, TX). These instructions are supplied in the event you are having problems with viewing images with VGASHOW. VGASHOW should auto-detect your graphics adapter. If not, you may have to set the /s and/or /m options, as described below. Information about Videotex Systems, the maker of VGASHOW, is at the end of this file. - How to use VGASHOW: VGASHOW filename [d] [/lx] [/p] [/q] [/c] [/o] [/sx] [/mx] filename is any TGA, PCX, TIF, BMP, GIF file, or a wildcard specification of those files, or a file containing a list of files to show. d the number of seconds to display each image (optional). /l display list of images specified in filename, where x is the column position offset (default=1). /p suppress pause between images (optional). /q quiet suppress - display file info on VGA screen (optional). /c cycle continuously through the images (optional). /o display pixel for pixel; default is to Fit To Screen (optional). /sx where x is from 0 to 14 for the supported superVGA chips /mx where x is from 0 to 99 for the supported video modes -Switch settings VGASHOW should autodetect your super VGA card if you have one. If it does not, you can specify the card directly with the /s switch. You can also force VGASHOW into a certain graphic mode. To set the graphic mode, use the /m switch. x /s - Supported superVGA chips x /m - Video Modes ---------------------------------------- -------------------------- 0 Video7 4 CGA 4 color 1 Paradise 6 CGA 640x400 b&w 2 Tseng 3000 14 EGA 640x200 3 ATI 16 EGA 640x350 4 Genoa (Models 6300,6400 & compatible) 18 VGA 640x480x16 5 Trident 19 VGA 320x200x256 7 Tseng 4000 30 SuperVGA 800x600x16 8 Everex 31 SuperVGA 1024x768x16 9 Chips+Technologies 40 SuperVGA 640x400x256 10 Ahead 41 SuperVGA 640x480x256 11 AheadB 42 SuperVGA 800x600x256 12 Oak 43 SuperVGA 1024x768x256 13 Vision/Trident 99 Hercules 14 VESA - Videographics and Multi-Media Solutions. VGASHOW is just one of 30 utility programs in T-Tools, a collection of utili- ties for Targa, Targa+ and ATVista boards from Videotex Systems. It was created with the T-BASE library available from Videotex. If you are a C, Clipper, FoxPro, Basic, dBase, Rbase, or Paradox programmer, you can create a vast range of imaging applications using the T- BASE library. Other products from Videotex Systems include ChromaTools, a collection of easy to use image conversion and enhancement utilities. ChromaTools supports every major raster file format including TGA, PCX, VST, BMP (Windows), TIF, MAC TIF, and PostScript files. You can take any of these formats (except PostScript) as input and output any other format. For more information about T-Tools or ChromaTools contact Videotex Systems. Please say you found out about them from the Autodesk Bonus CD-ROM. Videotex Systems 800-88-VIDEO 8499 Greenville Ave. FAX 214-348-3821 Suite 205 Voice 214-343-4500 Dallas, Texas 75231