Short: Programmer's picture converter. AGA supported.
Type: gfx/conv
Author: mortene@idt.unit.no
Uploader: mortene@idt.unit.no

PicCon is short for Picture Converter. This is a programmer's utility for
saving pictures, or parts of pictures, in one of several RAW-formats.

The advantages of PicCon over other similar utilities is that it's:

* System-friendly (dump that Kefrens IFF-converter!)

* AGA-compatible (up to date, the only one which is)

* handles all modes correctly, including HAM6, HAM8, EHB and dual playfields

* Uses datatypes for loading of pictures (picturefiles can be in any
  format which you've got the datatype to (like JPEG's and GIF's in addition
  to the IFF-format))

* Can load pictures of any size, as long as you've got the memory it takes
  (tested on bitmaps from 20x20 to 1440x5292)

* Can save palettes as 4-bits, 8-bits, 32-bits or copperlists (both OCS/ECS
  and AGA supported) + more

* Has RAW save in many formats, including chunky mode, blitterlines, AGA-
 sprites, workbench icons ++

Cut out from the program history:
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v1.05:
	- included option to frame parts of picture with fixed-size "box"
	- added option to save frame(s) as workbench icon
v1.06:
        - improved code on saveoperations (5x faster on bitplanes,
         interleaved, wbicons and blittermasks, 10x faster planar to
         chunky conversion)
        - removed major bug in menuhandling (setting several options by
         clicking left mousebutton while holding down right button now
         works)
        - removed a "bug" in the demoversion which made it impossible to
         save any palettes at all ("Save as 4-bits" and "Save as LoadRGB4"
         should work in the demoversion, only AGA-specific modes are left out)
        - removed some minor bugs
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This is a demoversion. It is partially crippled, as I've removed the code for
saving of any AGA specific graphics (you can save OCS/ECS bitmaps and palettes).
The requested sharewarefee is $15 (or an equal amount in any other currency,
cash only).
Be aware that you need KS3.0 or later to use PicCon, as this program uses the
datatypes.library.

Check it out!

Contact the author at: mortene@idt.unit.no

..or snailmail:		Morten Eriksen
			Jonsborgv. 18
			7563 Malvik
			NORWAY