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- Short: Picture/anim viewer , supports AGA
-
- PPShow 3.0a User Manual
- Dec 12, 1992
-
- PPShow was written to complement one of my other utilities, PowerPacker
- (a command and data cruncher). It is used to show normal IFF ILBM files or
- ILBM files crunched with PowerPacker. The decrunching is done automatically
- so the user doesn't have to know if a file is crunched or not. From version
- 3.0 PPShow will now also play standard Op5 animations. The ANIM Op5 format
- is used by most ANIM generating programs, including DPaint IV.
-
- PPShow uses 'powerpacker.library' and 'reqtools.library', so make sure
- these are present in your Libs: directory. Double-click 'Install_libs' for
- an automatic installation.
-
- If you haven't got PowerPacker you are of course missing one of the main
- features of this program. PowerPacker is available as shareware (up to
- version 2.3b) or as a commercial program (version 4.0a). Order a copy from
- UGA, P.O.Box 881, 3700 AW Zeist, The Netherlands or from JumpDisk, 1493 Mt.
- View Ave., Chico CA 95926, USA. The commercial version offers several
- enhancements like 40 to 50 times faster crunching, overlay support, an ARexx
- port, and much more.
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- VERSION 3.0
-
- MAJOR NEW FEATURE: PPShow now plays ANIM Op5 animations.
- o Supports all Amiga screen modes (including the new AGA ones).
- o Supports a change of the palette during the animation.
- o Animates in an Intuition screen (draggable).
- o 'S' or the left mouse button starts/stops the animation, 'N'
- advances a frame (when stopped).
- o Supports the 'DPAN' IFF chunk DPaintIV saves with animations to
- find the animation playback rate.
- o Allows for an optional playback delay in jiffies (JIFFIES switch).
- During animation playback pressing F1 to F10 changes the playback
- speed. Pressing Return will use the default playback speed.
- o Supports looping and repeating anims (REPEAT switch).
- o TIMES switch to set number of times animation should be played back.
- o Animation is played back on a standard Intuition screen.
- New MAXOSCAN switch to select VIDEO_OSCAN overscan. Useful to get the
- maximum overscan out of DoublePAL and DoubleNTSC.
- Now also recognizes LORES, HIRES, SUPERHIRES, PROD, LACE, NOLACE, PAL,
- NTSC and VGA tooltypes, was well as the new MAXOSCAN, REPEAT, TIMES
- and JIFFIES tooltypes.
- Fixed bug: pressing Right Mouse Button when PPShow was used with LOOP
- and TIME keywords no longer allowed you to end PPShow by pressing
- Esc. Fixed.
- Release 2.1a of reqtools.library included.
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- VERSION 3.0a
-
- Several causes of memory loss found and fixed. All of these popped up
- when using PPShow to display/play several pictures/animations in a row
- with or without the LOOP switch.
- Decrunch color changed to DECR_NONE. No more flashing pictures when you
- use PPShow as a slideshow program :-)
- Standard wait pointer (system wait pointer on 3.0) is set when loading
- the next picture/animation.
- Bug fix: it was not possible to stop PPShow when you used LOOP switch
- on non-iff files.
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- (c) 1991/1992 Nico Francois
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- Thanks to \X/ Amiga for being the best computer ever!
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