Short: ILBM/ANIM/GIF/JPEG/DataTypes viewer Author: nico@augfl.be (Nico Francois) Uploader: CTHULHU Belgium EU net Type: gfx/show Architecture: m68k-amigaos PPShow was written to complement one of my other utilities, PowerPacker (a command and data cruncher). It is used to show normal IFF ILBM files or ILBM files crunched with PowerPacker. The decrunching is done automatically so the user doesn't have to know if a file is crunched or not. From version 3.0 PPShow will now also play standard Opcode 5 animations. The ANIM Opcode 5 format is used by most ANIM generating programs, including DPaint IV. From version 4.0 on PPShow also plays ANIM Opcode 7 and ANIM Opcode 8 animations. It will also show GIF, JPEG and IFF24 bit pictures. If your Amiga doesn't have the color capability to display a GIF (ECS machines) PPShow will show the GIF in 16 grayscales. JPEGs and IFF24 pictures will be shown in HAM8 or in HAM6 (if your Amiga doesn't support HAM8). *************************************************************************** VERSION 4.0 PPShow now supports ANIM Opcode 7 and Opcode 8 anims. These are _MUCH_ faster animation formats than ANIM Opcode 5, especially the longword versions. PPShow does _not_ (yet) support ANIM 7 or ANIM 8 files without a BODY chunk in the first frame. Uses asynchronous I/O to read non-powerpacked files. Much faster! Supports datatypes (if available), use the new DATATYPES switch to force datatypes use. PPShow will now also show IFF 24-bit pictures, GIFs and JPEGs. Thanks to Rafael D'Halleweyn for writing the IFF24 parsing/decoding and 24bit to HAM rendering routines. If the file requester is used PPShow will keep going back to it until it is canceled. File requester will now open with a size about equal to the full height of the screen it appears on. Multi-selection in now possible in the file requester. Greatly improved animation playback memory requirements. No longer loads pictures or animations in one contiguous memory block. If the picture or animation is not crunched with PowerPacker the file will be loaded in smaller segments and memory will be allocated when needed. No longer supports GIFVIEWER environment variable (removed because of builtin GIF and datatypes support). Removed 'l' shortcut to load a new picture/animation. Removed SHAM, DHAM and DRES support. Added PCHG (Palette CHanGe) support for *true* "multi-palette" pictures. Mouse is no longer blanked by default. Press 'm' to blank the mouse or use the new NOMOUSE switch. New SUPER72 command line option and tooltype to force PPShow to use the Super72 monitor (Workbench 2.1/3.0 and up only). Replaced NOCYCLE switch with CYCLE switch (which does exactly the opposite :-) Bug fix: ILBM pictures with a mask (stencil) did not load properly. Bug fix: JIFFIES 0 was not the fastest playback speed possible. Fixed bug in animation routine causing some animations to show rubbish during playback. Release 1.6 (36.10) of powerpacker.library included. Release 2.2a (38.1210) of reqtools.library included. *************************************************************************** PPShow 4.0 Copyright (c) 1991-1994 Nico François Additional code by Rafael D'Halleweyn