- -- RiBE iEW - -- Where did I put my remote Version O 9b Coded by SiDS Design By Shihear Kallizad Beta Testers Warndering Maruder Sulfuric Acid Silent Slaughter Dox Redone By Killean & Shihear Introduction - TRiBE proudly presents the finest viewer in the ANSi scene TRiBE ViEW Although this puts everything else to shame be sure to look for newer versions in the TRiBE archives because we still have a lot we were unable to put in here due to a lack of time A big thanx goes out to Shihear for the time he put into evaluating and writing hundreds of lines of suggestions Much of this viewer has been made possible be- cause of the active part he played in its creation TRiBE ViEW s Aspect Ratio System I ve been playing with ANSi to VGA interputation for a couple months now and have talked to a few artists and here s what I ve come up with When ANSi is drawn there are two distinct looks aspect ratios 25 and 50 row modes In 25 row mode each charactor is about twice as tall as it is wide whereas in 50 row mode each charactor is about as tall as it is wide Thus an ANSi can look distorted if interpreted wrong 25 row mode ANSis look squished in 50 row mode and 50 row mode ANSis look stretched in 25 row mode The technical term for this is ASPECT RATIO the ratio of X Y for the pixels to form a perfect square ACiD has always avoided this issue by supporting just one aspect ratio or an aspect ratio that is half way between the two Thus many ANSis look distorted Until now iCE has been the only group to deal with this issue with any success I also have heard a lot of compliments about the wide mode in old ACiDViEWs so I have included wide modes that still maintain the correct aspect ratios I did not put in the multiple fonts like I had in viewers I ve done in the past because not only is this somewhat confusing most fonts cause distortion upon the ratio I belive that artists should have control over the way their work is viewed Now the fonts are built into the modes and the artist has regained complete control The Interface Esc KeyPad Funtion Keys Exit Num Grey Color - F1 = Help Lock Scale Strip Res F2 = Change Resolution Tab Home Up Page Up F3 = Toggle iCEColor File Format + Res F4 = Color GreyScale ASCii Shift + Tab F5 = 25 50 Aspect Ratio End Down Page iCE Color Down F6 = Normal Wide Mode Enter Wide Aspect F7 = Viewer Reader Mode Enter Ratio F8 = reserved View File F9 = Change Baud Rate F10 = Change File Mask SVGA Chipset Numbers (for the CFG File) 1 VESA BiOS 2 Ahead A type 3 Ahead B type 4 ATi 188OO 5 ATi 188OO-1 6 ATi 288OO 7 Chips & Technologies 82c451 455 456 8 Chips & Technologies 82c452 9 Chips & Technologies 82c453 10 Genoa 6OO series 11 Oak OTi-O67 12 Paradise PVGAla 13 Paradise WD9OCOO WD9OC1O 14 Paradise WD9OC11 15 Trident 88OO 16 Trident 89OO 17 Tseng ET3OOO 18 Tseng ET4OOO 19 Video 20 Cirrus Logic 54OO series 21 S3 22 Trident 89OOB 89OOC TV 0 90b Current features Independent of ANSi SYS no ANSi bombs and complete control over the display ESC aborts the display of an ANSi Display files with or without SAUCE descriptions (Tab) Help Screen (F1) Text VGA XGA and SVGA ANSi display resolutions (F2)(+)(-) Optional extended background colors (aka iCE color) (F3)(Shift+Tab) Quick grey scaling for all graphix and Color striping for ANSi (F4)( )(*) Toggle between 25 and 50 row aspect ratios for ANSi (F5)(Del) Wide mode avaible for ANSi interputation (F6)(Ins) Reader and viewer models avaible (F7) Speed can be adjusted for various BPS rates (F9)(Shift + Tab) Configuable mask (F10) Modes can be changed while viewing! Scrollback ALWAYS on! Customisable via TV CFG RiP support for levels 0-1 and fonts 1-5 Quick PCX GiF support (SVGA recomended) GUi with Kewl i s Ability to Change Directories and Drives Mouse support Support for most multi-taskers Command Line Viewing Questions comments bug reports death threats need a phycotic reading or an apathic shoulder You can reach me via Extreme Prejudice 6O3 598 34O3 NUP NAACP Local Silent Slaughter Remote SiDS TRiBE UPA Lord Heinous O-7 day art H P A V Quality Warez TRiBE Member Board ELiTE net UPA Member Board CoRoSioN net CoRoSioN SiTE PHART SiTE DreadLoc Distro Belly of the Beast 6O3 PWA iN94 Local Sulferic Acid Remote The Collector TopCat O-14 day warez H P A V Over a Gig + Tape Requests PWA Affiliate Board ELiTE net DREAD Distro Thunder net DreadLoc Distro W A S P Distro Or on Internet (and IRC) sids@cyberspace com Greetings from SiDS TRiBE Members - TRiBE PRiDE! TRiBE PRiDE! TRiBE PRiDE! TRiBE PRiDE! Other art groups - We don t need no couriers We don t need no burocrats Hey you senior staff leave those artists alone You re just another name in the roster Shihear Kallizad - You re the best damn Senior member I ve ever seen Quazar - Thanx for the help on iRC Zodiac - Just tell me when ya want the TPUs g Gonna be a kick ass mag! TRiBEBOT - Why not Raistlin 519 - Keep at it Maelstrom - For teaching me the practical side of programming Tasmaniac & Cerebrus - Shouldn t hang around with wanna-bes Mister X - For teaching me to dot my i s Wandering Marauder - Thanx for the feedback The HitMan - The competion was phun Always a supprise to see what you can do wrong every month g Cap n Crunch - Thanx for the RiP code Sulferic Acid - Party on! MAGiC - sobb iCE Breaker - What happened to you dude Golgotha & Elminster - Did you EVER give a shit about GOTHiC Matt Pritchard - Kewl XGA routines! Couldn t have done it without ya! WPi - Proud to be a member of the class of 98! ANSiM Fans - Just think of it as ANSiM on steroids Beatings from SiDS HitMan - King of the HUGE arrays didn t teach you about dynamic memory allocation in BASIC 101 eh ACiD SENiOR Staff - Don t know which is greater your arrogance or worthlessness All the Lamers - Go back to sleep