Short: PhotoCD viewer/converter (for AGA) Author: Guenther@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de (Guenther Roehrich) Uploader: Guenther studbox uni-stuttgart de (Guenther Roehrich) Type: gfx/show Version: 1.2 Replaces: gfx/show/PhotoCDAGA11* Requires: AGA chipset Architecture: m68k-amigaos Kurz: PhotoCD Anzeiger/Konverter (für AGA) PhotoCDAGA is a viewer/converter for pictures in the PhotoCD format. It is based on the sources of the program "hpcdtoppm" written by Hadmut Danisch. Advantages of PhotoCDAGA: - high picture quality gained by using the overskip mode and map-files (probably better than with all other programs) - it does not cost you anything - complete source code is included, it can be compiled with all C compilers on the Amiga - high speed (it is compiled with gcc 2.7.0, a part of it is written directly in assembly language) - saving in ppm-format is possible to allow conversion into other picture formats (e.g. to IFF-ILBM with ppm2AGA or to JPEG with cjpeg) In the NETPBM package you can find converters for almost all formats. (Aminet: gfx/pbm) Disadvantages: (sorry) - needs lot of memory - not very comfortable (shell command) - resolutions higher than Base (512x768) are not supported (you have to use hpcdtoppm, the original, in this case) History ******* 1.0 - 20-November-1994 - first public release 1.1 - 11-April-1995 - ixemul.library is not needed any more - a stack size of 4000 bytes is enough - when moving the picture screen around the errors at the left border will be much smaller - better and faster screen opening - added 16-pictures-overview (option -0 n) 1.2 - 18-October-1995 - compiled with gcc 2.7.0 and libnix 1.0 - a fast chunky to planar routine is used for screen rendering, this makes the display much faster - added -orig option to use system functions for screen rendering - the 16-pictures-overview will always use the "topaz 8" font (gives better readability)