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Initial checkin for AIM92 aimR8.2 (last updated May 1997).
author | tomwalters |
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date | Fri, 20 May 2011 15:19:45 +0100 |
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xreview. Christmas 1993. 1. compilation The makefile has flag settings for a linux 386 PC, Sun/OpenWindows, Sun/X, and DECStation. The default values are for DEC; if you need a different architecture, comment them out. 2. Known bugs. a. 'Previous' and 'Next' (keyboard options) do not work on a DEC b. ALL timing functions are removed in the Linux version. This means that it is not possible to control the animation speed. 3. Byte-Swapping Suns have a different byte-swapping to DECs and Linux PCs (well, my PC anyway). Because AIM cartoons are simply a copy of the screen memory, their byte-order is determined by the SCREEN they were generated on, NOT the cpu used. 'xreview' will display anything in either byte-swapping format, by using '-dec' or '-sun' options (which are aliases for '-rv', '-msb', -'lsb). If what you get is gunk, try using them (the default is the current cpu byte-order). 4. Colour Not tested; you get to play with the colour masks ...