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 sid
e of the
equator.  For this special occasion, most of the viewer has been rewrit
ten,  as
well as the frontend and MCGA palette manipulation techniques.

If you discover any bugs please email me (Digital Vampire) on one of A
V's dist
sites (in Victoria only! :( )  Bug reports such as  "It crashes sometim
es"  are
totally useless!  If you find a bug, please tell me how it can be recre
ated and any suggestions for fixing it, if any!

AVViEW now uses XMS me
mory 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 re
ason 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 lo
ad
ANSi's up to 3,200 lines maximum...)

The frontend for AVViEW'96 now uses pre-emptive multit
asking for searching for
ACiDSAUCE information.  This means that in a very big directory, you ca
n scroll
around and load a file, while the CPU is still searching for SAUCE.   T
he 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.

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