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`01.Aug.2001` Oliver Roberts (ANF)	WarpTIFF-introduction - New TIFF-picture datatype Oliver Roberts introduces his new WarpTIFF freeware-datatype with the following message. This new datatype can also read pictures which were made under TIFF specifications 5.0 and 6.0. The datatype was optimized for 68k, WarpOS and native MorphOS and is of course very fast. It follows the original message: The first release of WarpTIFF is now available - a new freeware datatype capable of reading 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec images, available in optimized 68k, WarpOS and native MorphOS versions. Needless to say, WarpTIFF is fast - very fast in fact :) Full feature list below. WarpDTPrefs has also been updated to support WarpTIFF. Supports 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec, including Packbits, Thunderscan, CCITT (fax), Pixar, LogLuv (CIE and SGILog) and Deflate (zip) encodings, and uncompressed files. LZW and JPEG encodings are currently unsupported Image types supported include RGB (24-bit and 48-bit), palette based and greyscale (1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 16-bit) Supports image data organized as strips, tiles or separate components Highly optimized datatype dispatch engine, and fast TIFF decoder, resulting in a very efficient, compact and quick TIFF datatype Asynchronous file i/o and double buffering techniques (WarpOS only), which speeds up image decoding Optimized versions for 68020, 030, 040 and 060 PowerPC support with native WarpOS and native MorphOS versions Alter the pen allocation precision when images are remapped to an 8-bit display Specific support for the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype, when available The dithering feature of the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype can be configured to your liking (e.g. disabled for 15/16-bit displays) Based on libtiff 3.5.6-beta and zlib 1.1.3 As some of you will know, WarpTIFF has been in development (on and off) for some time, but it's ready at last :) It already handles a more comprehensive coverage of various TIFF encodings than other TIFF datatypes, but if you should find some TIFF images that don't work properly with WarpTIFF, then please let me know and I'll try to add support for them. Likewise, if you need support for JPEG encoded TIFFs, let me know. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 01. Aug. 2001, 19:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jul.2001` Bebits (Seite über BeOS) (ANF)	New hardware platform for AmigaOS & AmigaDE Marcel Maurmann wrote: Here I found a link with an interesting news from Merlancia about a hardware platform with 1 or 2 G4 PowerPC processors. It should run with: MorphOS, QNX, BeOS and -AmigaOS-/AmigaDE. The product series is called Merlancia Multimedia Computer - Torro Series (System name: Apocolyps (Desktop/ASTB)). Another link: BeGroovy: BeOS on a G4? (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 31. Jul. 2001, 23:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jul.2001` Steffen Nitz (ANF)	Regist II released in the Aminet Regist II by Steffen Nitz helps you to manage the users registerd for your program. The topical version is 0.2Alpha and only few features are already implemented. Steffen Nitz pleases you to give him some feedback (Steffen.Nitz@t-online.de) because he wants to figure out if a further development is needed. Additional Steffen is looking for some one who is able to translate the texts included in the program and the documentation. Some already available and planned features of Regist II: Administration of users of different programs and versions in only one file. Storage of informations about the user (name, firstname, address, registration-number, date and so on). Automated keyfile, snailmail and email generation and computation of the registration-number. Computation of the overall income including currency-conversion. 13 different statistics that can be combined and a configurable user list gives you a very good overview over your data. Extensive search and sort functions. Password protection. Support for compression tools for documents. All windows are fontsentive Download: Regist_II.lha (133 KB) - Regist_II.readme (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 30. Jul. 2001, 10:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jul.2001` Ryan Czerwinski in the Shoutcast stream from the Amiwest 2001 (ANF)	AmiWest 2001: Merlancia announces new products Merlancia Industries announced some very impressive products that will be released in August or September. Merlancia rejects to be a Hoax like IWIN. They hired Dave Haynie lately and are topicaly trying to get Andy Finkel and RJ Mical. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 30. Jul. 2001, 02:29] [Comments: 1 - 30. Jul. 2001, 22:22] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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