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version 1.5 (12.jan.98)
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- PUBSCREENS option for multiple pubscreen support. Be sure to
have screennotify.library installed. Note that when a screen
opens, the patterns must be loaded and remapped for that screen, which
can cause unpleasant delays. You could keep your patterns in RAM:
to save some time and annoying hd access. This "problem" does
NOT happen to those with gfxcards that use hicolor and truecolor
screens. Birdie will in this case share bitmaps among the screens
if the screens have same pixelformat, ie. either 15, 16, 24 or 32bit.
- EXCLUDE option to define what pubscreens should not be affected.
example EXCLUDE=Workbench (workbench not affected) or
EXCLUDE=(Workbench|MyPubScreen) (workbench nor mypubscreen affected)
- Note on startup usage: run it after IPrefs somewhere like this:
c:run <>NIL: c:birdie <options>
version 1.5 alpha (xmas edition) (24.des.98)
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- Special release.. some stuff from real 1.5 version above.
- Xmas card gag worked, but didn't have time to write any
real text for it. To see it, launch Birdie so that card.jpg
(included in archive) is found (same dir).
version 1.4 (2.des.97)
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- Changed a certain aspect of a patch which I think caused problems
with DiskSalv, Arq and other specific stuff. Please retest
if you had problems before.
- Added FLOODMASKMWB to make the NOICONBORDER patch more complete.
If enabled, icons with 16 colors or less (which usually is mwb
style or old standard amiga style) will have their masks generated
by flooding pen0 around the border. If you used NOICONBORDER
before you would notice that the background color of the icon
always becomes transparent. This looks good for newicons, but
for mwb and other old style icons it doesn't look good because
they rely on the background color as a part of their design.
However there is a solution for this which gives nice results.
Instead of making pen 0 transparent everywhere, only those pen 0
pixels which are reachable from the border becomes transparent.
I advice everyone which are using Workbench (and not some
replacement like Scalos or DOpus) to try out NOICONBORDER and
FLOODMASKMWB (specify both). Use this feature *instead* of
all other noborder hacks like the one in newicons (disable it in
newicons prefs).
NOTE: The flood mask routine uses a handmade Flood() routine in
100% ASM so you don't suffer from slow loading.
- Now caches already masked icons too and draw them correctly.
- NOICONBORDER should now work on interleaved AGA screens which
at last makes it usable for AGA users.
- Added some code so that all windowframes are redrawn when
Birdie starts/exits.
- All bitmap cache is now flushed if you quit Birdie.
- Now supports screennotify.library so you can change screenmode
while Birdie is running. This will cause Birdie to reload pattern
ofcourse, which might take a second or two.
version 1.3 (8.oct.97)
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- Birdie no longer needs CGX/Superlayers.
- Added PRECISION and IMPOSELEVEL.
- ACTIVECOLOR now works with all hi/truecolor pixelformats.
version 1.2 (6.oct.97)
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- Added NOLIGHTING,NOICONBORDER,ACTIVECOLOR,LRA,LGA,LBA,DRA,DGA,DBA.
- Rewrote bitmap stuff.
- Baked a chococake (not included in archive).
version 1.1
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- Added proper DrawInfo usage.
- Added NOBITMAPS switch.
- Fixed problems with dual-layered GZZ windows.
version 1.0
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First public release. 95% rewrite.
version -13 (jan/feb 97)
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internal weird-thing (tm).