to all the folks at home Australia s GroOoviest art viewer just got groovier AVViEW 96 (4 ) Pack 18 Version ------------------ DISCLAIMER We not at fault if AVViEW kills your computer (so there) AVViEW 96 AVViEW 96 (Oz 96 version) is the most up-to-date ANSi viewer this side of the equator For this special occasion most of the viewer has been rewritten as well as the frontend and MCGA palette manipulation techniques If you discover any bugs please email me (Digital Vampire) on one of AV s dist sites (in Victoria only! ( ) Bug reports such as It crashes sometimes are totally useless! If you find a bug please tell me how it can be recreated and any suggestions for fixing it if any! AVViEW now uses XMS memory to handle all files It will not run without it To load it load HiMEM SYS in your CONFiG SYS and it should work The reason for using this is so you can load ANSi files as long as your arm or longer! For example with 8Mb memory no EMM386 installed and HiMEM SYS installed an ANSi up to !45600! lines long can be loaded! (by comparison ACiDViEW can load ANSi s up to 3 200 lines maximum ) The frontend for AVViEW 96 now uses pre-emptive multitasking for searching for ACiDSAUCE information This means that in a very big directory you can scroll around and load a file while the CPU is still searching for SAUCE The back- ground of the AVViEW logo at the top of the screen will light when the SAUCE is is being looked for New in version 4 ------------------- * Bugfixes * New frontend & interface * Mysterious other stuff which DV hasn t told us about HOW TO USE iT I would think that AVViEW is pretty self explanatory but for all the meat heads out there Inside the filefinder --------------------- F1 Help screen Currently missing Be afraid F2 Change viewing mode (also + -) F3 Change viewing text res (also ) F4 Toggle iCE colour mode F5 Change mask F6 Toggle greyscaling text ANSi F7 File information (eg SAUCE size date etc) F8 Toggle smooth block manual auto file reading F9 Toggle alphabetical directory searching F10 Settings Screen Up Go up! Down Go down Esc Exit Enter Load file currently selected Inside the fileviewer --------------------- F2 Change viewing mode F3 Change 25 50 line mode F6 Toggle greyscaling text ANSi Toggle ANSi ASCii Mode * Toggle ANSi Greyscale Mode + or - Change up down a viewmode Toggle Text res (EGA25 VGA25 EGA43 VGA50) 0 Toggle Scroll Mode (Smooth Block Auto MODEMulate) Up Go up Down Go Down Esc Ret Quit to file finder CREDiTS Code Digital Vampire Apocalyptic Visions iNSTABiLiTY Graphics Digital Vampire Apocalyptic Visions iNSTABiLiTY Thanks to Amon-Ra iNS for ANSiMation graphic file support ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Apocalyptic Visions View 4 is a co iNSTABiLiTY Apocalyptic Visions production 95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --------