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- ColorView for Windows
- Copyright (c) 1992 Millennium Technologies Corporation
- All Rights Reserved
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- Version 0.97
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- ColorView is a color image viewer designed for Microsoft Windows. In this
- version, ColorView supports reading the following formats:
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- o JPEG (JFIF subset)
- o GIF'87, GIF'89 (only simple images)
- o Windows BMP files (4, 8 and 24 bit, uncompressed)
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- and writing the following formats:
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- o GIF'87
- o Windows BMP files (8 and 24 bit, uncompressed)
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- ColorView will work with:
- o 4 bit, 16 color standard VGA boards (poor color reproduction)
- o 8 bit, 256 color display boards
- o 15 bit, 32768 color display boards
- o 24 bit color display boards
- o Microsoft Windows 3.0 and 3.10
- o 2 MB or more of physical memory
- o 80286, 80386-SX, 80386, 80486 processors
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- ColorView provides:
- o Floyd-Steinberg dithering
- o Heckbert color reduction
- o one pass Fast Quantization color reduction
- o Gamma correction,
- o Hue,
- o Saturation, and
- o Brightness controls.
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- Two versions of ColorView are available: ColorView '286 and ColorView '386.
- The '386 version of ColorView uses Intel 80386 (and higher) instruction set
- to optimize decompression. As the result, it is twice as fast as the
- ColorView '286 in displaying JPEG images.
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- PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A 80386-DX or 80386-SX CPU
- BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO RUN COLORVIEW '386!
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- List of files provided with this package:
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- README.TXT - this file
- UPDATE.TXT - text file describing changes in v0.97
- CVIEW.SDA - ColorView package description
- CVIEW286.EXE - ColorView for 80286 processor
- CVIEW386.EXE - ColorView for 80386 and above
- CVIEW.WRI - documentation in Windows Write format
- TIMINGS.WRI - ColorView JPEG decode times on
- different computer setups
- PALACE.JPG - sample JPEG image
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- To install, copy all of the files into a directory on your hard disk. Read the
- ColorView documentation by editing CVIEW.WRI document using Windows' Write.
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- To run ColorView from Microsoft Windows start CVIEW286.EXE or CVIEW386.EXE
- (only on 80386-SX or better systems) and follow instructions in the
- documentation.
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- Enjoy!