Dieter Fiebelkorn Grner Weg 29a 45768 Marl == GERMANY == !!!!! GEM-View version 2.42 is on this Disk !!!!! This version runs with HighColor and TrueColor cards and has been tested on the Falcon 030, Spektrum1TC, Crazy Dots, Matrix true-color card, Nova 16M and the CyReL M16-1280 (Cybercube Canada). Please note that problems can occur if you use Chameleon to load GEM-View! SEE ALSO: 'GraphicMode' in CHANGES, if you experience problems with HighColor or TrueColor. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The authors make NO WARRANTY or representation, either express or implied, with respect to this software, its quality, accuracy, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group, which is copyright (C) 1991, 1992, Thomas G. Lane. All Rights Reserved. The authors accept NO LIABILITY for damages of any kind. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Run 'INSTALL.APP' to install GEM-View 2.30 and type in your registration- number, your name and your code/key. Take care to type your name precisely, observing capital/non-capital letters, spaces and special characters. The program will then be automatically registered in your name. If 'INSTALL.APP' don't work right, please use 'INSTALLA.APP', which search the data files on drive 'A:'. During this process you may, if you wish, instal the programs in a directory other than the source directory. To do this, click on the empty box below the word "Pfad:" and choose the destination directory from the resulting selection box. The contents of the archives (GEMVIEW.PAX, TOOLS.PAX and PICTURES.PAX) can be seen below together with details of the subdirectories which will be created. Some special notes: o A once-and-for-all depacking and installation process, which is not dependent on your computer type, is all that is required. After installation you can use all the files normally. o You can start the installation from Floppy Disk, RAM-Disk or Hard-Disk. It is, however, essential that the archives ( the .PAX files ) are in the same directory as 'INSTALL.APP'. o Before an existing file is overwritten, you will be asked for confirmation to proceed. o Using 'INSTALL.APP' doesn't modify the archives so you can copy this disk after installation and send it to a friend! ;-) If you registered an earlier version of GEM-View, and do not know your code/key, you can obtain it as follows:- o Send an eMail to me, with the following 'Subject:' Register GEM-View: "#001234", "Norman User" replacing the number by your own registration-number -see below- and "Norman User" by your own name which must be typed in precisely, observing capital/non-capital letters, spaces and special characters. ( You can discover your registration number quite simply..... Run your old GEMVIEW and load the old GEMVIEW.PRG. - as if it were an image file. When it is listed as a plain hex-dump,look to the right of the third line to find a number preceded by '#'. This is your own registration-number! ) OR o Send me a letter with two CRI (international reply coupons), which you can get at your post-office, saying that you want to know your code/key. In this case your full name will be enough but please write clearly and legibly! Use the registration-number '000000' in the installation process to get an unregistered version of GEMVIEW 2.30. This version can then be tested for the next 14 days! The Archives: ============= GEMVIEW.PAX ----------- SnapShot.Acc: A tool to snap and save all or part of the screen or windows OdiePack.Tif: A test-picture in TIFF format GemView\DeskIcon\: Icons to install as Desktop Icons (mono/color) GemView\Dither\: Files with special dither matrices for the "Ordered Dithering" which can be set in the "Preset" dialog or by using "LOAD". GemView\Dokument\: Documents(!) The English documents have not yet been written and the German documents, to be found surprisingly in the folder 'German', need some updating. Your attention is drawn to 'CHANGES' for information on important innovations. GemView\GemView.App: An unregistered version of the principal program. GemView\GemView.Inf: A simple INF-file for GEM-View. TOOLS.PAX --------- Gem_Show\: Install GEM-View as a FILE viewer for Multi-Tasking Gem_XAcc\: Material for sending and receiving XAcc-Messages Gem_View\: Material for sending VIEW-Messages Dither.11b\: A program to create dithermatrices for GEMVIEW from Alexander Clauss Stresemannstr. 44 64297 Darmstadt == GERMANY == MultiDia.102\: MultiDialog puts nearly any GEM-dialogbox into a GEM-Window. The result is that you can access the menu-bar or other applications while a dialog is running. Helmut Neukirchen B”nnersdyk 63 47803 Krefeld == GERMANY == ????? Problems with Selectric ????? 1StGuide\: Help-System edited by Oliver Bentler Am Stadion 8a W-5810 Witten == GERMANY == for '1STGUIDE' written by Guido Vollbeding Turmstraže 61 O-4020 Halle == GERMANY == WinxV20\: WinX. Copyright by Martin Osieka Martin Osieka Erbacherstr. 2 W-6100 Darmstadt == GERMANY == VdiFix.110\: VDI-Fix. Copyright by Karsten Isakovic Karsten Isakovic Wilmersdorfer Str.82 W-1000 Berlin 12 == GERMANY == Dieter Fiebelkorn ======= Genaral agreements for GEM-View outside of GERMANY ======= ****************************************************************** * * * Provided that all the files * * * * INSTALL.APP, LIESMICH.TXT, README.TXT * * GEMVIEW.PAX, TOOLS.PAX and PICTURES.PAX * * * * are included without any change, 'GEM-View' may be freely * * copied and given away. * * GEM-View is a complex product,so it is published as shareware. * * This means that this package may be freely copied, but that if * * use is made of the shareware a fee must be paid. * * Please send, as that fee, US$26. * * * * All Copyright and other rights in GEM-View up to and including * * Version 2.3x are the property of the Author ( D. Fiebelkorn. ) * * * Commercial use is NOT PERMITTED (this includes distribution * * on a Public-Domain-Disk or as part of any package ). * * * * The inclusion of a free copy with Tool-packages ( e.g with * * graphic-cards ) must be the subject of specific permission by * * the author. * * * * The latest version can be obtained from the author,at the MAUS * * mailboxes, GEnie or from some ftp-accounts. * * * ****************************************************************** - [2.42]: o loads XGA images - [2.41]: o small changes o Test between DSP-JPEG (Brainstorm) and MC68030 (Falcon030/16MHz) NOTE: The followed times are combinations of load and decode. For pure decoding the DSP is 10 to 14 times faster! Loading and decompression time (no processing by GEM-View): DSP-JPG MC68030 BV17.JPG : 588 x 800 ( 84910 Bytes) 0'06.3" vs. 0'48.5" (7.7) PLAY2.JPG : 800 x 600 ( 87645 Bytes) 0'06.5" vs. 0'44.3" (6.8) PLAY1.JPG : 800 x 600 (106525 Bytes) 0'07.0" vs. 0'46.9" (6.7) BLACKTIP.JPG: 1219 x 838 (124990 Bytes) 0'11.2" vs. 1'23.9" (7.5) QUEENXBI.JPG: 1270 x 420 (170776 Bytes) 0'09.2" vs. 1'05.2" (7.1) - NOTE: (min)'(sec).(msec)" - [2.40]: o loads now PCD (Kodak Photo-CD images) with format BASE/4 o uses the DSP-JPEG-Decompressor written by Brainstrom, if installed. o Quick 90, 180, 270 degree rotation. In Monochrome(ST/Mhz): up to 266666 Pixel/sec (90, 270 Grad) up to 948148 Pixel/sec (180 Grad) o Online Rotate : | Options | | (in Window-menu) | Rotate +90 M | | Rotate -90 N | ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ o Online Brighten: | Options | | (in Window-menu) | Brighten +5% ( | | Brighten -5% ) | ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ o Bug fixed in loading True-Color-XIMG's - [2.32]: o Bug loading VIVID images fixed o 8 color ordered dithering (3.5 times faster than Floyd-Steinberg) o English documentation included. [350394 Bytes] - [2.31]: o Bug loading TrueColor TIFF's fixed - [2.30]: o loads monochrome GIF's with less memory usage than before. o The buffer-size for loading files can be set in GEMVIEW.INF with an Editor. The value entered means KILOBYTES! So, " 32 FileBufferSize" sets the buffer to 32 kByte (the standard is 8 kByte). o Auto convert GEM-Metafiles to Rasterimages without display. Destination-raster-format and actual resolution is used. Not in HighColor or TrueColor! o JPEG version 4.0 now included. Loading 2-times faster! Test-picture: 800 x 600 (87645 bytes), Reference: 8MHz ST JPEG 4.0: LOAD (2'17") + Dither (0'55") = Sum (3'12") JPEG 3.0: LOAD (4'29") + Dither (1'08") = Sum (5'37") o Character size of GEM-View window can be chosen (Standard font, size: 8 points, 9 points, 10 points) o New keys supported F1 to F6 F1: white background F2: grey background F3: black background F4: 8 points standard font F5: 9 points standard font F6: 10 points standard font F10: "Break ^B" o loads VIVID Raytracer images o loads and saves Enhanced Simplex (ESM) pictures o loads TIFF-Images with LZW-Compression o Wildcards can now be used in Load, Conversion and Identification. They can be used for automatic conversion of a complete directory. Use the wildcard(s) in the filename in your File Selector Box. Summary: '*.*' : All Files. '*' : All Files without any Extention. '*.IMG' : All Files with Extention '.IMG'. 'F*.GIF' : All 'GIF'-Files, beginning with 'F'. After the 'F' any other characters (including 0) are covered. 'F?.IFF' : All 'IFF'-Files, beginning with 'F' but the use of '?' after the'F' means that exactly one character must follow. 'G???*.*' : All Files, having 'G' followed by 3 or more characters. o meaning/use of '-merge' changed o Two new error-propagation dither-algorithms: "Jarvis-Judice-Ninke" and "Stucki" o The Picture-Menu "GEM-View" can be opened without holding the right mouse button, if the window is in the background. A click with the left mouse button to it is enough. o completly new Short-Cuts (MTOS) o merging true color images o xAcc2 included o sending pictures using xAcc o loads (X)IMG much faster o better IFF and TIFF o clipping faster o in >32k-colors GEM-View does not use the virtual colormap o Bug fixed: saving GIF to full disk o black on black problem solved in >32k-colors o correct iconify in 32k- and 64k-colors o Bug in '-save...' used with '-merge' fixed