Short: Picture/anim viewer , supports AGA

                            PPShow 3.0a User Manual
                                 Dec 12, 1992

   PPShow was written to complement one of my other utilities, PowerPacker
(a command and data cruncher).  It is used to show normal IFF ILBM files or
ILBM files crunched with PowerPacker.  The decrunching is done automatically
so the user doesn't have to know if a file is crunched or not.  From version
3.0 PPShow will now also play standard Op5 animations.  The ANIM Op5 format
is used by most ANIM generating programs, including DPaint IV.

   PPShow uses 'powerpacker.library' and 'reqtools.library', so make sure
these are present in your Libs: directory.  Double-click 'Install_libs' for
an automatic installation.

   If you haven't got PowerPacker you are of course missing one of the main
features of this program.  PowerPacker is available as shareware (up to
version 2.3b) or as a commercial program (version 4.0a).  Order a copy from
UGA, P.O.Box 881, 3700 AW Zeist, The Netherlands or from JumpDisk, 1493 Mt.
View Ave., Chico CA 95926, USA.  The commercial version offers several
enhancements like 40 to 50 times faster crunching, overlay support, an ARexx
port, and much more.


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VERSION 3.0

     MAJOR NEW FEATURE: PPShow now plays ANIM Op5 animations.
       o Supports all Amiga screen modes (including the new AGA ones).
       o Supports a change of the palette during the animation.
       o Animates in an Intuition screen (draggable).
       o 'S' or the left mouse button starts/stops the animation, 'N'
         advances a frame (when stopped).
       o Supports the 'DPAN' IFF chunk DPaintIV saves with animations to
         find the animation playback rate.
       o Allows for an optional playback delay in jiffies (JIFFIES switch).
         During animation playback pressing F1 to F10 changes the playback
         speed. Pressing Return will use the default playback speed.
       o Supports looping and repeating anims (REPEAT switch).
       o TIMES switch to set number of times animation should be played back.
       o Animation is played back on a standard Intuition screen.
     New MAXOSCAN switch to select VIDEO_OSCAN overscan.  Useful to get the
       maximum overscan out of DoublePAL and DoubleNTSC.
     Now also recognizes LORES, HIRES, SUPERHIRES, PROD, LACE, NOLACE, PAL,
       NTSC and VGA tooltypes, was well as the new MAXOSCAN, REPEAT, TIMES
       and JIFFIES tooltypes.
     Fixed bug: pressing Right Mouse Button when PPShow was used with LOOP
       and TIME keywords no longer allowed you to end PPShow by pressing
       Esc.  Fixed.
     Release 2.1a of reqtools.library included.

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VERSION 3.0a

     Several causes of memory loss found and fixed.  All of these popped up
       when using PPShow to display/play several pictures/animations in a row
       with or without the LOOP switch.
     Decrunch color changed to DECR_NONE.  No more flashing pictures when you
       use PPShow as a slideshow program :-)
     Standard wait pointer (system wait pointer on 3.0) is set when loading
       the next picture/animation.
     Bug fix: it was not possible to stop PPShow when you used LOOP switch
       on non-iff files.

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(c) 1991/1992 Nico Francois

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                       Thanks to \X/ Amiga for being the best computer ever!