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- | Program: BINARIS Viewer | // //|
- | Type: Program or Accessory | || || |
- | Version: 2.0 | || || /\_
- | Distribution: POSTCARDWARE | _/|| ||\_ /|
- | Système: Falcon030; | |_/ |_| \_|/
- | TOS/MiNT or MultiTOS; |
- | any screen rez |
- | True Color recommended |
- | Last update: 24th July 1993 |
- | Authors: Gilles Bouthenot (Megar) |
- | Christophe BOYANIQUE (DMV) |
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- | Copyright ©1993 BINARIS |
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- | Purpose: Display & convert TGA & GIF |
- | images |
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- Hello guys, this is BINARIS Viewer v2.0 a faster-than-light TARGA & GIF
- Images viewer for the Falcon030 and only in TRUE COLOR mode.
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- This soft is POSTCARWARE: you MUST send us a postcard if you use it !
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- This soft can be copied freely but not sold !
- BBS and PD library can distribute it freely !
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- This soft CANNOT be modified or translated without our written permission !
- If you want to translate it, contact us and we will send you all the stuffs
- you need to make a correct translation !
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- You can contact us at:
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- Gilles Bouthenot Christophe BOYANIQUE
- 8 Rue des Murgers 29 Rue Republique
- 25350 MANDEURE 37230 FONDETTES
- FRANCE FRANCE
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- I What For ?
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- Maybe you have GIF/Targa's files on your disks ? Yes ? So, what do you
- use to show them ? I asked some guys. Here are the answers:
- - A software which is both slow to load images and slow to show them
- (STUDIO or Gemview)
- - A soft which is slow to load images but faster to show them (True
- Paint)
- - A soft which loads fastly images and which show them fastly too
- (users of BINARIS Viewer), but which only loads Targa Type 2 file
- and which works only in True Color mode
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- BINARIS Viewer is an image file viewer under GEM but very very fast.
- Purpose is to show as many pictures as you want (max of 20 !), just
- limited by GEM and free memory you have.
- This shower may be very useful to image files collectors who want:
- - Save their pictures packed on disk (archivage is very easy)
- - Load them quickly, in one time (otherwise accessing rate would
- take too much time) (use Gemview, you will understand what I
- mean). This allow user to see his images fastly.
- - Loading image, making them scroll without waiting for the screen
- or the disk
- - Converting 24 bits TGA to 16 bits TGA (or 16 bits TG1) (they take
- less space) very very quickly. (Converting 24 bits --> 16 bits
- doesn't mean less quality because the Falcon can 'only' show
- 65.536 colours (16 bits)) (with a cartrige, you can increase this
- to 16.777.216 (24 bits)).
- I must say you that the TGA 16 bits format only save 32768
- colours. Only the TG1 format can save 65536 colours image file.
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- Unfortunately, BINARIS Viewer only works (in this version) in 'Near True
- color' Falcon mode. Indeed, using a palette involve to use dithering and
- thus take us (and to the processor) an age to do. Maybe in a future
- release ?
- (To encourage us, send us a letter saying you'd like to use BINARIS Viewer
- in others modes as True Color)
- But, it can be interesting to convert pictures in a fast resolution (no
- in 'Near True Color') so BINARIS Viewer works perfectly in other resolution
- but it doesn't show the images. But you can load and save them.
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- II USES
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- BINARIS Viewer runs as program or as accessory, just change the extension.
- You can also drag a file on the program'icon (only in TOS > 2.0x) or install
- it as an application (see your Falcon's manual).
- Now, two ways:
- - You have launched the program from the desktop (as PRG, APP or GTP)
- A menu will be shown, and the Log window is opened. You can select
- options by the menu or the PopUp menu in the Log window.
- - The program is an accesory, so, to load a picture, you must call
- the accessory which will open the Log window.
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- BINARIS Viewer can only read GIF87a & TGA type 2 format image file;
- BUT: You can pack your image with 'atomik 3.5' or 'Speedpacker 3' !
- that allow you to gain an impressive quantity of disk space on some
- image (TGA not GIF !).
- Unfortunately, to show your images, you need BINARIS Viewer, or another
- program which support packers, or, AUTO_SP3.PRG or ATM_3_5.PRG (which
- should arrive soon on Falcon030).
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- NOTE ABOUT Speedpacker 3: The 'offset' mode is supported but, if you use
- this possibility, you MUST configure offsets like this:
- - First part no packed
- - Second part packed.
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- Before starting depacking the file, the program check the free-Memory to
- avoid depacking the file if not enough memory is free.
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- Once the file has been loaded and depacked, the program converts the image
- to the standard internal format which is exactly the 'true color' mode
- format.
- Thus allow the program to show the image very quickly.
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- Of course, you can move the window, shrink it, load as much picture as
- you want in the same time.
- You can arrange windows by pressing M, H or V.
- To move the picture into the window, use lift or arrow keys (normal or
- shifted (faster displacement)).
- By pressing the Escape-Key, you will acceed to the Overscan mode, allowing
- you to show the picture witout window, without menu (except if the program
- is lauched as an accessory). You can always move the picture with arrow
- keys normal or shifted, if the picture is still bigger than the screen.
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- A double-click on a image will make appear the toolbox, featuring the rez
- of the screen, the lenght taken by the image and his size. Click on the
- arrows to select the number of an image and click on the number to show it.
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- Now, you can save the image by clicking on 'Save'. You can choose between
- 'TGA' or 'Coke TG1': the first offers compatibility with other software,
- the secund is a new format, adapted to the Falcon030. Thus format is called
- also 'Coke format' and it will be used in our next productions.
- (auto viewer ?)
- Here is the format:
- 0 12 'COKE format'
- 12 w width in pixels
- 14 w height in pixels
- 16 w offset to the image from the start of the file.
- A value of 18 means format 1.00
- 18 ({12.w}*{14.w}*2) picture in falcon True color mode
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- The twice format have the same lenght !
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- We suggest you for a normal use to save the picture under the 'TGA 16 bits'
- format and to pack it with a packer (Atomik 3.5 or SpeedPacker 3).
- Indeed, conversion to the Falcon mode is very quick !
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- III IMPORTANT !
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- This program can use the advantage of Selectric if it's intalled ! So you
- can choose up to 10 files and load them in the same time !
- If you don't nom, Selectric is the best Fileselector remplacement ever
- seen on Atari by Stefan Radermacher and it's Shareware !
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- This program works only on a Falcon030 or higher, due to the use of new
- features of the 68030.
- It doesn't use neither DSP nor Blitter.
- But Auto-generated-code is used to show the picture very fastly.
- We could use 68030+Blitter to be faster. This will fixed in the next
- release.
- Loading a Targa image: the y-inversion bit is correctly supported.
- Saving image works by setting this bit to 1 (thus means 'no inversion')
- Some softwares don't take care of it (SLIDE SHOW 384*480 for example)
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- IV WHAT ABOUT KEYS ?
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- Keyboard help: HELP
- Information: I
- Load a picture (TGA or TG1): O/L
- Save a TGA picture: S
- Save a TG1 picture: SHITF+S
- Close an image: C
- Quit: CONTROL+Q
- Fullscreen: ESCAPE (in TRUE COLOR)
- ToolBox: Double-Click on a picture or desk
- Picture moving: Arrows with/without SHIFT
- Windows cycling: W
- Windows in mosaïque mode: M
- Windows in vertical mode: V
- Windows in horizontal mode: H
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- V NEXT RELEASE:
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- - TGA other type support !
- - Faster !!! (yes, yes !)
- - Maybe BINARIS Viewer could load GIFBLAST file (it's a PC file format
- which allows GIF file to be packed at 25% whitout quality lost. But
- write to support us!)
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- VI Bonus:
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- You can contact the author of Selectric at:
- Stefan Radermacher
- Unter Krahnenbäumen 52-54
- W-5000 Köln 1 (ab 1.7.1993: 50668 Köln)
- Deutschland
- EMail: sr@k.maus.de
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- VII Greetings:
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- - BINARIS members: AAZ, HAWAT, RON THE DON, BIGBOB, MEL.
- - Stefan Radermacher author of Selectric
- - David Oakley/ASTRAsoft author of DeskTracker MultiTask
- - DrComputer/Adrenaline
- - Sharpman/TBC
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