Short: The viewer and gfx saver for ascii animations. Author: Fighter For Future Uploader: Fighter / The Crew www THECREW w pl Type: text/show Requires: Amiga (compatible) system Architecture: m68k-amigaos Description: This program is written to view ascii animations. If you don't know what i mean the best thing you may do is start the program with one of the animations from this archive. Disclaimer: Use this program at your own risk! I assume no responsibility or liability for any problems or damages that occur by the use, modification, or existence of this program. Usage: The viewer: asciiSHOW anim_file/A frame_delay/A/N or ansiSHOW anim_file/A frame_delay/A/N where: anim_file - should be text file (it's very good if it is an animation) frame_delay - it's a one frame time. For example: frame_delay=0 is equal to about 50 frame per second frame_delay=1 should be equal to 25 fps. (depends on hardware and animation's datails) Attention! The ansiSHOW seems to be buggy and sometimes reboots machine. It'll be fixed soon. The saver: ansiSAVE anim_file out_root where: out_root - is a the root of file where the separate frames in iff-ilbm format will be saved. Author: FighterForFuture / TheCrew city: Jelenia Gora Poland e-mail: qrwamaca@go2.pl hOmE pAge of pOlish aScIi grOup The Crew: http://www.TheCrew.w.pl For other my programs and updates try: Fightre's home page (polish only): http://www.EVFI.w.pl/tworczosc.html#programiki Bugs: The ansiSHOW crashes on some lengths of anim file. History: 1.0 (30-Jan-2000) - First steps. Program was very slow, but knew how to save iff frames. - For internal use of The Crew group. - First public version. Aminet Upload. 1.2 (6-Feb-2000) - Background picture for animations added. Anims was reading directly from file. 1.3 (20-Feb-2000) - errors handler added. - ansi colors implemented. 1.4 (24-Sep-2000) - file is loaded to memory at the start. - some alghoritm optimisations. 1.5 (21-Aug-2001) - separated viewer and saver. The viewer can be much faster now. - lot of small changes. Speed improved. 1.6 (25-Aug-2001) - mem loading rewriten to speed up viewing. 1.7 - 1.9 - few not good ideas and some experiments. 2.0 (23-NOV-2001) - background removed (will be in future added to SAVER) - separated simple ascii and ansi viewer versions. - the asciiSHOW is now twice as fast as v1.5 and can show up 50 fps on my 68040/40. - first public release. Aminet upload.