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- P - VIEW
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- P-View is a tiny but highly capable ILBM viewer for all Amigas.
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- A number of the programmes of mine published on Fish Library Disks,
- such as P-Reader and S-Pic have been able to display simple ILBMs. It
- is time that they were updated to include all OS2 and OS3 viewmodes -
- ie to full AGA; the first obvious step was to look at current AGA-
- capable viewers to see what they could do. I found very few:
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- Nic Wilson's IFF Displayer. A very nice little viewer, but it could
- not adjust screen modes or monitor drivers to match the requirements of
- a picture and was not really full AGA. It also neglected to use the
- auto-scroll facilities of OS2 and 3.
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- Commodore's MultiView. This is very good at many things - except
- pictures, where it as often as not corrupts the colormap. It will call
- up any necessary monitors and set screen sizes correctly.
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- Viewtek. An excellent programme that gets most things right, except
- that for some reason in OS3 it crashes if you try to load a HAM6 picture.
- Convert the pic to HAM8 and all is well - very odd.
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- Mostra is a good IFF viewer, but I have yet to see an AGA update.
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- One thing that all of these have in common is that if they are unable
- to match the pics Viewmode requirement for screen size & monitor, they
- just go sullen and refuse to show anything at all - or crash!
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- All in all a less than perfect bunch. Clearly before updating my own
- programmes some work was needed on AGA displays generally. The result
- is this programme. P-View should work with all OS versions from 1.3 (and
- probably with 1.2 as well). It should work with all currently available
- viewmodes and monitor types. If a picture size is larger than the screen
- it allows autoscrolling so that the whole picture can be seen (OS2 & 3
- only).
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- If the required monitor drivers, number of planes, or screen sizes
- are not available, it will show what it can. The result may be that only
- part of the picture will be visible, it may be distorted, or only the
- first few planes may be shown - but at least you should see something!
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- INSTRUCTIONS
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- P-View can be run from either WorkBench or CLI.
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- CLI:
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- Call: P-View <picture> <picture> . . .
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- At least one picture reference is required. There are no switches.
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- WorkBench:
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- Call P-View as the `Default Tool' in the picture's icon OR
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- Hold down the keyboard Ctrl (Shift) key, click the LMB on the
- picture's icon, double-click on P-View's icon. Multiple selection
- can be used to call a sequence of pictures.
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- Close:
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- Click the LMB to clear the screen.
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- P-View is Freeware. It may be copied and distributed freely and used
- without charge for non_commercial purposes. Authority for commercial use
- should be obtained from the author below.
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- No responsibility can be accepted for any loss occasioned by use of the
- programme.
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- Comments, suggestions, bug-reports all welcome.
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- Chas A. Wyndham,
- 1265 Canning Mills Road,
- Roleystone,
- WA 6111,
- Australia.