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- M E G A V I E W V1.1b - ©1991 By McCormick & Associates
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- Megaview is a shareware GIF(tm) viewer for use with the DCTV(tm) hardware
- and was written by John R. McCormick of McCormick & Associates
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- Introduction
-
- MegaView was written in pure 68000 assembly language for size and speed (mostly
- speed).
-
- I wrote MegaView because I was tired of not being able to see the large GIF
- files that were being uploaded from the IBM world without either converting
- the images to HAM, therefore reducing the resolution of the image, or using
- a product such as Art Department Professional (by ASDG, inc, great product!)
- to convert the image to IFF24 format (requiring 3mb or more of memory and
- almost 800k of disk space for the IFF24 file).
-
- Having my A500 with 2mb of memory pretty much left me stuck only able to
- convert small GIF's.
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- With all the colors and the resolution available to me on my DCTV I was
- still stuck. So I decided to make a GIF viewer that was both fast and small.
- After much searching I found the information I needed to decode the GIF
- files and produce the images on the DCTV, along with the information for
- several other graphic file formats which will be implemented in future
- versions of MegaView (registered version only).
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- The next major format to be incorporated into MegaView will be PCX
- (PC Paintbrush files). Followed closely by BMP (Windows Bitmaps) and TIFF
- files. Full scaling and graphic conversion (GIF to DCTV etc. will be
- incorporated as I am able). All implementation will be in pure 68000/020
- assembly language (I will only resort to 020 if I find it necessary for speed).
-
- I would like to make MegaView the most versatile graphics viewer for the Amiga
- but in order to do that I need your help. Though the shareware concept hasn't
- worked too well in the past on the Amiga I have decided to give the Amiga
- community another chance to prove that Amiga shareware software is appreciated
- and that the Amiga community feels that shareware authors should produce
- more software.
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- Future enhancements will be implemented based on my time and the hardware
- available to me, I will very probably support the HAM-E board and other
- 24 bit video boards (maybe even Amiga video modes).
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- If you feel that this software is worth using please register it by sending
- a check or money order (please allow extra time for personal checks) for
- $15.00 (in US funds drawable from a US bank) to:
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- McCormick & Associates
- 3223 64th Avenue S.W.
- Seattle, WA 98116
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- If you are out of the US please add an additional $5 US to cover postage etc.
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- I will send you the very latest version of the register version of the software.
- Let's all support Amiga shareware, and keep shareware authors from defecting to
- the IBM world!! Thanks.
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- INSTALLATION
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- copy mv into your C: directory
- copy dctv.library and req.library into your libs: directory
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- By the way the only parameter that MV takes is the name of the file you want to
- view so to see the file CONRAD2.GIF you would type:
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- MV CONRAD2.GIF
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- or MV if you want to select the file to display using a file requester
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- when the file is done displaying press either mouse button or press any key to
- exit the program.
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- This program makes use the the REQ library by Colin Fox (of Pyramyd Designs)
- and Bruce Dawson (of CygnusSoft Software), req.library is copyright 1989
- by Colin Fox and Bruce Dawson.
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- M E G A V I E W V1.1b - ©1991 By McCormick & Associates
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