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- ABSTRACT
- cybergraphics-shareware distribution for picasso ii
- (piccolo, domino and merlin gfx board drivers are about to be developed
- too - please contact us if you are interested in, please contact us.)
-
- AUTHORS
- Vision-Factory-Development:
- Frank Mariak fmariak@chaosengine.ping.de
- Thomas G.Sontowski marvin@sub.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de
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- FEATURES
- o stable Workbench emulation; faster in 256 colours than every picassoii
- emulation before
- o dragable screens
- o no chipmem required for screen display
- o modular design, it is possible to use multiple (and different) gfx boards
- at one time
- o cybergraphics based vilintuisup.library. As long as there exist not much
- cybergraphics 15/16/24 bit applications the old picassoII drivers may
- be used. (but: use it at your own risk)
- o uses picasso blitter for plane to chunky conversion
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- TO DO
- o 15/16/24 bit extension of the "normal" graphics.library, that means that
- you can open 24bit screens as standard intuition screens and that you
- can use all graphics.library functions on them as before. (with some
- limitations of course because of the missing color lookup table)
- o application to adjust the monitor parameters
-
- MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- o PicassoII in linear mode (!!! not segmented !!!)
- o Kickstart 3.x
- o 68020 or higher
- o 2 MB of fast memory
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- PRODUCT-INFO
- The cybergraphics system was designed to define an independant graphics
- standard for graphics boards. We also wanted to continue our development
- of workbench emulations. We could include all our knowledge of about 3 years
- of gfx board software development (wb-emulation of visiona, domino, picasso
- and now the cybervision64).
- cybergraphics is based on hardware dependant monitor drivers and hardware
- independant libraries. This has some advantages: Bug fixes in the workbench
- emulation or speed optimizations is of benefit for ALL gfx boards that are
- supported by the cybergraphics system. There is no third like XpERT or
- Village-Tronic inbetween developers and users. That guarantees bug fixes
- and continued development of the software in the future.
- cybergraphics allows using of 15/16/24 screens independant of the used
- color model. You are able to use the cybergraphics.library functions to
- modify this screens. Using graphics.library functions is currently not
- possible but this may change in one of the next releases.
-
- cybergraphics will also be the standard workbench emulation for the soon
- coming (februar 95) Cybervision64 by Advanced Systems&Software. (of course
- including drivers for diverse graphics programs, screen promoters and much
- more).
- Right now (1.1.95) there are drivers for Maxon Cinema,Real 3D, ADPro, AmaxIV
- and Photogenics available.
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- INSTALLATION
- First you have to use PicassoMode to create a monitorfile. (Just like you
- know it from the VillageTronic WB emulation). You have to set the tooltype
- "CUSTOM" in the village.library. The cybergraphics uses this settings as long
- as there is no tool under cybergraphics which can modify the monitor settings.
-
- After that you copy all supplied libraries (cybergraphics,cyberintuition &
- cyberlayers) to the libs: directory (the old vilintuisup.library does not
- work with the new cybergraphics system anymore , so you have to rename or
- delete it)
- Also rename or delete the village.library to avoid conflicts with the
- cybergraphics drivers. Move the new Picasso monitor driver to devs:monitors
- (The old picasso driver has to be deleted, too)
-
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- SHAREWARE-RESTRICTIONS
- In the shareware release of the picasso monitor driver you are not able to
- use 15/16 bit screens.
-
-
- KNOWN BUGS
- o some Picasso II gfx boards produce read or bliterrors in high resolutions
- or high refresh frequencies. In this case you have to select a smaller
- refresh rate in PicassoMode.
-
- REGISTRATION
- The registration fee is DM50 or $30. You have to pay it to one of the
- following to get a full working version:
-
- Frank Mariak Thomas Sontowski
- Klosterstr. 7 Bensberger Marktweg 15
- 44135 Dortmund 51069 Köln
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- Feel free to contact us by email or smail if you have any questions.
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