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            Wildfire 2.60 - ©1995-97 Andreas Maschke

                              README
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1. Important news

 * This version *requires* a FPU
 * Wildfire now supports another kind of PlugIns: "General PlugIns".
   These are normal programs which have to follow only a few rules.
   A developer-kit will be available soon.

   Motivation:
    *There are many programs which are used not frequently but still
     are important - the supplied "EPSSaver"-PlugIn is such a program.
    *Because many of the functions of the Wildfire-mainprogram
     can be used from within these PlugIns its very easy for you
     to create your own image-processing sub-applications.
     Example: You have to do a very special image-analysis for study
              or whatever.
              Or, you need a very special (strange) effect only for
              one time - but you have only 30 minutes to do it.

              If you wrote a "General PlugIn" you would not
              have to care about the nasty but "trivial" things like
              image-loading or -rendering.
 * A new and nice feature of the processor is folding
 * The program was tested on an A1200 (OS3.1, 68060) and
   an A4000 (OS3.0, 68030 + FPU) without *any* problem

2. Installation
 The installation must be done by hand because I'm not familiar
 with the "Installer"-language. But it's quiet simle:

 a) you have installed Wildfire 2.53 or 2.58
  1. Simply replace the old files with the new ones.

 b) you have installed an older version
  1. Delete *all* contents of the "wf:system/PlugIns-drawer".
  2. Move the four drawers ("operators", "general", "savers" and "system")
     from this archive into your "wf:system/PlugIns"-drawer
  3. Replace the main-program.

 c) you have installed Wildfire 2.60 or a newer version
  1. Delete this archive
  2. Haha

3. Additional Notes:

 * Never modify or remove any file from the "PlugIns/system"-drawer.
 * If you have problems starting the program please use the "debug"-option
   and contact the author
 * The intro-picture is in jpeg-format (to make this archieve as small
   as possible). If you use a slow machine convert it as ILBM24 later.
 * The jpeg-saver-PlugIn doesn't work perfectly yet - so it's disabled
 * If you're interested in a non-FPU-version contact the author.