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Since version 1.0 was very broken (released in a hurry) there
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is bugfixing 1.1. Only known problem at the moment is that aaflip
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don't work at non intel platforms. There is many fixes and also
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some new features. Most notable are MS-DOS version, support for
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all p?m file formats, user interface for aaflip and asciiview
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script that browses many image formats using ImageMagick or NetPBM
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tools.
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What does this software do then ?
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aview is an high quality ascii-art image(pnm) browser and
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animation(fli/flc) player usefull especially with lynx browser.
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Supports: dos (VGA + MDA), stdio, curses, slang, X11, gpm, linux-console
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Features
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o High quality ascii art rendering
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o Portable
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o Save into many formats (html, text, ansi, more/less etc...)
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o Contrast, Bright, Gamma control
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o Image zooming/unzooming
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o Three dithering modes
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o Hidden "bonus" features :)
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o Inversion
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o Support for bright, dim, inverse attributes/extended
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character set
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What is PNM file format?
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PNM if an graphics format similiar to GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and
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others. Aview uses it because of its simplicity. Many free or shareware
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conversion tools from other graphics format exist (ImageMagick, NetPBM
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for UNIX, alchemy for DOS and others.) So you should use aview to
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browse images in many graphics format. UNIX version has script that
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does conversion automatically (using eighter NetPBM (preffered way)
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or ImageMagic conversion program. FIFO is used to do not waste your
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disc space so conversion is fully transparent. Under DOS and other
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operating systems you probably need to do it yourself.
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ChangeLog
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o Fixed bugs in Makefile
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o Do not require efence anymore
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o Configure script
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o Fixed memory leak in flip.c
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o Hide cursor
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o Extended documentation
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o Faster animation preloading
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o Uses faster memcpy/memset functions
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o image.c now reads P1 - P6 file formats (pgm, ppm, pnm both raw/ascii)
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o gifview obsoleted by asciiview - new script that uses eighter
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imagemagick or netpbm tools to convert image using fifo.
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So it is fast and saves memory/disk space
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o Added some keys into aaflip - contrast, bright, gamma tunning etc.
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Press 'H' for help
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Where to find Aview
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Just join our mailing list: `aa@horac.ta.jcu.cz'. Send:
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subscribe aa
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to majordomo@horac.ta.jcu.cz
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All programs covered under AA-project can be obtained at
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`ftp://ftp.ta.jcu.cz://pub/aa'.
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Or just browse our homepage at `http://www.ta.jcu.cz://aa'. A ton of
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examples of ascii-art generated by aalib, pointers to other AA-Project
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resources etc.
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AA-Project
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dT8 8Tb
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dT 8 8 Tb
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dT 8 8 Tb
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<PROJECT><PROJECT>
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dT 8 8 Tb
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dT 8 8 Tb
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Three goals of AA-Project:
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1. Port all important software (like Doom, Second Reality, X windows
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etc..) on AA-lib.
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2. Port AA-lib on all available platforms (mainly ZX-Spectrum and
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Sharp).
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3. Force IBM to start manufacturing MDA cards again.
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AA-project was started by Jan Hubicka. In that times just a few
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people knew about it. Then a new demo named BB has been relased to show
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the power of AA-lib technology. Now the project is freely available and
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anyone can help.
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