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- Short: THE flexible Cellular Automata (LIFE...) RTG support
- Uploader: thor@math.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter)
- Author: thor@math.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter)
- Type: gfx/misc
- Version: 1.62.1
- Requires: OS 2.0 for most and OS 3.0 for all functions, 1MB chip, 2MB fast
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-
- This is only a demo version of the shareware edition of VideoEasel.
- The full version includes:
-
- - The full VideoEasel guide, coming with a huge number of
- experiments to perform, about 450K.
- - More brushes and more pictures.
- - More ARexx scripts, for example to convert a VideoEasel
- animation into an IFF-ANIM movie.
- - The XLIFE source files which are no longer included in
- this edition to keep the archive small.
- - Display drivers for Picasso96 and CyberGraphics that are
- up to five times faster than the native display drivers
- included in this package. This demo release will only work
- on native Amiga screen modes, the RTG support files are
- included in the full edition.
-
- The full edition is priced at $20, to be sent to:
-
- Thomas Richter
- Rühmkorffstraße 10 A
-
- 12209 Berlin
-
- Please contact me by EMail if you consider buying VideoEasel.
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-
- About VideoEasel:
-
- A fast and flexible, program-able and expandable cellular automata machine,
- including Conway's LIFE plus over 70 (SEVENTY!) other applications of
- cellular automata, ready to use and collected from various sources
- (Scientific American alias Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Cellular Automata
- Machines by Toffoli & Margolus and other..).
-
- The program is extremly flexible, own algorithms can be written in CAMRexx
- or - even better - in (preferably) Assembler or C.
-
- A demo version of the guide is included, to make you curious!
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-
- New in release 1.62.1: Fixed bugs in the native video drivers. I recommend
- buying the much faster (!) P96 and CGFx drivers for VideoEasel.
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-
- New in release 1.62:
-
- - Fixed the printer setup window which printed with the wrong
- dimensions from time to time.
- - Worked a lot on the datatypes-based import-filter.
-
- DUE TO A BUG IN THE OS 3.5 picture.datatype, IMPORT OF PICTURES WILL NOT
- WORK CORRECTLY WITH THE V44 DATATYPE. PLEASE USE THE V43 EDITION FROM THE
- P96 DISTRIBUTION INSTEAD. FOR OPTIMAL QUALITY, IT IS RECOMMENDED TO SET THE
- DATATYPES TO V40 (NOT V43!) MODE TEMPORARELY.
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-
- New in release 1.60:
-
- - A lot!
-
- - Added RTG support, wrote fast display drivers for Picasso96 and
- CyberGraphics.
- - Changed the Environment handling of VideoEasel, it selects now
- the proper video driver automatically.
- - Changed the screen mode request code.
- - Speed up the magnify tool if enough memory is available.
-
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- New in release 1.55:
-
- - Fixed a bug in the IFF saver which could crash if the display
- lines are too long.
- - Made more preparations for RTG, even though this release does
- not support RTG yet.
-
- New in release 1.54:
-
- - Fixed a stupid enforcer hit when scrolling in the "Planar Tiled"
- environment.
-
- New in release 1.53:
-
- - Updated printer support. The colormap of the screen is no longer
- touched.
- - The brush wasn't shown after a single step command.
- - The mirror/magnifier/raster tools are now deactivated as soon as
- a new screen mode is selected.
-
- New in release 1.52:
-
- -Fixed a fix of 1.51.... )-:
- -The 1.51 crashed when closing a window due to a forgotten
- bracket in the C source...
-
- New in release 1.51:
-
- -Fixed a bug in the window cleanup routine that might have caused
- crashes when rebuilding the window.
- -Fixed an enforcer hit in the ARexx menu support functions
-
- New in release 1.50:
-
- -Fixed a bug in printing
- -The drawing functions should be now CyberGfx compatible (I hope...)
- but no CGFX driver is included, though. (Left for the next upgrade)
- -Fixed several handling "features" of the magnify tool
- -Added an "Import" function (works with Datatypes and requires 3.0)
-
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- New in release 1.41:
-
- - Fixed a bug in the mirror routines.
-
- New in release 1.40:
-
- - Updated the GUI generation code a bit,
- shouldn't make any visual difference.
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-
-
- Have fun,
- Thomas (January 2001)
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