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- Summary Of Changes
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- Version 2.01
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- - Created DCTV, EGS, Picasso versions of Viewtek.
- - OpalVision rendering slightly faster.
- - OpalVision version supports scrolling with arrow keys.
- - Space bar can be used while picture is being read.
- - SCREENMODE now works for animations.
- - Tool types work in project icons.
- - Recompiled with SAS 6.50.
- - Retina version now supports scrolling, and centering.
- - Created Viewtek.guide documentation file, with updated text.
- If you don't have AmigaGuide or MultiView, you'll have to use
- a hypertext viewer utility such as "ShowHyp", or suffer through
- the embedded codes.
- - Supports alpha channels in ILBMs.
- - Various other minor problems fixed.
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- Version 2.00 (this was an unofficial beta)
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- - New documentation, distribution conditions.
- - Recompiled with SAS 6.3 resulting in minor overall speed improvements.
- - Graphic handling somewhat rewritten.
- - New versions for OpalVision, Retina, Firecracker, DCTV.
- - Keyboard may now be used to skip images.
- - "Configuration" file may now be used for frequently used options.
- - New NOCLICK option to disable mouse button actions.
- - Uses WriteChunkyPixels under V40 if appropriate.
- - New GIF decoding; somewhere around 15%-30% faster (on my A4000, at least).
- - Playback from disk now heeds DPAN chunks.
- - Fixed problem of LMB not working sometimes when playing anims.
- - Fixed improper handling of directories using playback from disk.
- - Fixed unfreed chip memory in playback from disk (oops).
- - Fixed enforcer hit if JPEG screen open fails.
- - CTRL-C in the starting CLI may be used to stop Viewtek.
- - Fixed mungwall hit after viewing greyscale JPEG.
- - Fixed enforcer hits showing contents of clipboard.
- - Shows Amiga icon files, for no particular reason.
- - MakeAnim7 has SHORT and LONG options to force short/long compression.
- - MakeAnim7 now *really* preserves unknown chunk types. :)
- - Various other minor additions/changes/corrections here and there.
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- Version 1.05 (released with ImageFX 1.5)
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- - MakeAnim7 preserves unknown chunk types.
- - 640x480 GIFs assume Productivity mode under AGA.
- - Removed V39 double-buffering, which caused 'palette-changing'
- animations not to work.
- - Animations may be played directly from disk.
- - 'S' key will save images while viewing them.
- - Supports XPK to read compressed images/animations.
- - Supports V39 datatypes to read unknown file types.
- - New 2-letter abbreviations for all CLI options.
- - Added UNDERSCAN option to disable overscan for all images.
- - Added INFO option to only display file info, not the image.
- - Added POINTER option to leave the mouse pointer visible.
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