TITLE

CyBERgraphics

VERSION

40.49

RELEASE DATE

1-June-95

AUTHORS

Frank Mariak (fmariak@chaosengine.ping.de)
Thomas G.Sontowski (marvin@sub.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de)

DESCRIPTION

CyBERgraphics supports:

Picasso II
Spectrum
Piccolo
Domino
Retina Z3 BLT
Piccolo SD64

The cybergraphics system was designed to define an independant graphics standard for graphics boards. We also wanted to continue our development of workbench emulations. We could include all our knowledge of about 3 years of gfx board software development (wb-emulation of visiona, domino, picasso and now the cybervision64). Cybergraphics is based on hardware dependant monitor drivers and hardware independant libraries. This has some advantages: Bug fixes in the workbench emulation or speed optimizations is of benefit for ALL gfx boards that are supported by the cybergraphics system. There is no third like XpERT or Village-Tronic inbetween developers and users. That guarantees bug fixes and continued development of the software in the future. cybergraphics allows using of 15/16/24 screens independant of the used color model. You are able to use the cybergraphics.library functions to modify this screens. Using graphics.library functions is currently not possible but this may change in one of the next releases. Cybergraphics will also be the standard workbench emulation for the soon coming (April 95) Cybervision64 by Advanced Systems&Software. (of course including drivers for diverse graphics programs, screen promoters and much more). Right now (6.4.95) there are drivers for Maxon Cinema,Real 3D, ADPro, AmaxIV, PhotoWorx, Emplant, ImageFX and Photogenics available. There is also a picture viewer called CyberView which can be found on AmiNet.

Revision V40.49 (changes since 40.47)
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- changed the way ReadPixel() works on non clut screens. MatchPenColour now scans palette in reverse order in order to fix some problems.
- CygnusED EOF marker is now shown correctly
- pctask text modes now show up correctly under cybergraphics (inverse text before)
- fixed jam2 line pattern bugs
- fixed "pointer gets square" bug when screen was dragged down too far. Some machines even crashed ...... (- added faster text output ) <- disabled in 40.49 (to be revised)

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Minimum requirements to run cybergraphics 1) One of the following boards

- Domino
- Picasso II in linear mode (! not segmented !)
- Piccolo Z2/Z3 or
- Piccolo SD64
- GVP Spectrum
- RetinaZ3
- CyberVision64

2) Kickstart 3.x
3) 68020 or higher
4) 2 MB of fast memory

HOST NAME

Aminet FTP servers, like ftp.netnet.net

DIRECTORY

/pub/aminet/gfx/board

FILE NAME

cybergfx4049.lha

PRICE

         Shareware Version  -  Free
         Registered Version -  50 DM - in cash  (or)  DM 50 - Eurocheque
                               $35 US - in cash
                               $40 US - Foreign cheque

         Please see the Bestellformular or Orderform

DISTRIBUTABILITY

It is allowed to distribute cybergraphics on any data medium and to make it available on bulletin boards or other network compounds if the orginal directory structure will be kept. It is of course allowed to distribute these files in a packed archive file. It is also allowed to levy copy charges for the distribution on floppy disks or CD-ROMs, as long as it has stated clearly for the user that he has not payed for the share fee, hereby. It is not allowed to copy, distribute or generate registered versions. Cybergraphics must NOT be included or used in commercial products unless by written permission from the authors. Permission for Phase5 to distribute this program together with their graphics board CyberVision 64 is hereby given. Cybergraphics must NOT be used on any machine which is used for the research, development, construction, testing or production of weapons or other military applications. This also includes any machine which is used for training persons for *any* of the above mentioned purposes.

(C) Copyright 1994-1995 by Thomas Sontowski & Frank Mariak