ACiD Productions(tm) Acquisition Enhanced File Viewer Coding by The Hit M N of ACiD Screen and Layout by Beastie of ACiD Phont by Beastie and RaD Man Modem Simulation Routines by Tasmaniac of ACiD Documentation and Update History of ACiD Productions ACiD View By The Hit Man and RaD Man of ACiD Productions(tm) Current version of ACiD View 1 40 02-01-1994 15 51 Introduction to ACiD View In the past ACiD had promoted an ANSI viewer that was neglected by its author In response to this we have taken the necessary steps to write a new viewer that has a simple interface and some new features Like the prototype version there will be no extraneous interfaces or menus and the viewer will provide more ANSI viewing enjoyment than before As was before there will be no need to make use of a third party RIP viewer due to a built-in driver Features Full File Description and Artist Initial Identification Now supporting our very own special SAUCE Semi Gooey Menu System Variable Speed ANSI Viewing Modem-Simulation for both ANSI and RIP Viewing File Masking Directory switching Level 0-1 RIP Viewing Fully-Features ANSI Scroll Back in several different video modes ANSI Viewing in 80x25 or 80x50 80x43 text modes ANSI Viewing in 320x200x256 or 640x480x16 graphics modes Now supporting 320x200 WIDE! Supports up to 2000 files in one directory What ACiD View Displays ACiD View will display ANSI screens in several different video modes These modes include the default 80x25 and others such as the 80x43 80x50 text modes 320x200x256 MCGA modes as well as the sought after 640x480x16 high-resolution VGA mode ACiD View displays most low level (0-1) RIP screens Although it will show all of the RIPs presented in the Acquisition it may not display some of the other RIPS you own This is due to the fact that some of the higher level RIP commands have not yet been implemented ACiD View is capable of displaying ANSI or RIP files at sim- ulated modem speeds To ensure that these files display at the same speed on all computers the timer interrupt is altered This can create a possibility for problems while running ACiD View under a multitasking operating system such as DesqView In order to prevent this problem these modem simulation routines have been disabled within all multitasking environ- ments ACiD View Functions F1 Quick-Help Brief description of function keys F2 Scroll Back Toggles Scrolled viewing ON OFF Default is OFF While ON you can scroll back ANSI in 80x25 80x43 80x50 and 320x200 Modes F3 Toggle Speed Emulates several different bps rates 38 400 19 200 14 400 12 000 9600 4800 2400 and 1200 bps Default is NO DELAY If you want to display an ansimation or RIP at an alternate bps rate you can customize the viewing speed by pressing the (+) or (-) keys to increase or decrease the speed respectively F4 Display Mode Selects the video mode that the selected ANSI is to be viewed in 80x50 Display - If you have a VGA card this will compress the default 8x16 font into an 8x8 font and display the screen This feature is nice when you want to display a big ANSI on one screen 320x200 MCGA - ACiD View will display ANSIs in two seperate types of MCGA modes Normal and Wide 640x480 VGA - VGA or better is required for this feature Display Mode Description Flags 25 Line Standard 80x25 Text Mode AB S 50 Line 80x43 80x50 Compressed Text Mode ABES 320x200 320x200x256 MCGA Graphics Mode A SV 320 WID 320x200x256 MCGA Graphics Mode Wide A SV 640x480 640x480x16 VGA Graphics Mode A V RIP 640x350x16 EGA Graphics Mode BE R Flags A = Ansimated Viewing Supported B = Modem Simulation Supported E = EGA Required S = Scroll Back Supported V = VGA Required R = RipScrip Graphics Supported F5 File-Masking Selects files within a specified file mask Alt+A Ansimation Forces the ansimation flag of the highlighted file Use this option when you know the ANSI you want to view contains ansimation and is not flagged so This option only affects the 320x200x256 modes Acquisition Viewer 1 40 1) Multitasking environment awareness implemented (ie DesqView and OS 2 ) 2) Modem simulation routines are now disabled when ACiD View is loaded under multitasking environments 3) Directory switching added Change directories simply by pressing the return key 4) File jumping and auto-sorting added ACiD View will now jump to the first file that begins with the character entered by the user 5) 640x480 viewing is now two times faster than version 1 32 320x200 Normal and Wide have also been optimized for speed Acquisition Viewer 1 32 1) Major bug erradicated in file reading routines 2) Fixed the problem with the Viewer exiting if no files were found matching the default mask ACiDView will now simply display the normal interface with no files allowing you to MASK or exit until you specify a valid file mask 3) Fixed the key-reading loop with the 320x200 and 320x200 WIDE emu- lations when ScrollBack was turned off Acquisition Viewer 1 30 1) File Masking added allowing the user to select files within the mask 2) Added 320x200x256 ansimation mode 3) Added modem simulator which emulates user-defined bps rate 4) Minor bug corrected in the scroll back of large ANSIs 5) Removed slow panning upon exit 6) 640x480x16 now FULLY supports ansimations Small bug fixed Acquisition Viewer 1 20 1) Maximum number of files in one directory has been increased to 2 000 2) A bug in the RIP portion of the viewer which caused the colors of plotted objects to display improperly has been squashed 3) RIP code has been optimized for speed and it is now possible to abort the screens 4) Scrolled viewing has since been implemented and 320x200x256 MCGA display modes are now supported 5) The old font has been replaced with a new character set and a new interface has been added which features icons Bugs Did you find any Bugs If so contact me at the board below The End of TiME New Age World HeadQuarters CiD South Carolina Outpost PsychoSquad US HQ - 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