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Fast, powerful 24-bit picture datatypes for AmigaOS® & MorphOS
68K (OS 3.x & Amithlon) and PowerPC (WarpOS, OS 4.0 & MorphOS)
Copyright © 1999-2007 Oliver Roberts, All Rights Reserved.
The WarpDT package comprises of a collection of picture datatypes, and
an accompanying easy-to-use preferences program. The image formats currently
supported are JFIF/JPEG, PNG, TIFF, Windows BMP, PCX and PSD (Adobe Photoshop®), although
support for more formats is planned. One of the key features of
the datatypes is their superior decoding speed (hence the name Warp), especially on PowerPC equipped
systems, and most importantly not at the expense of power and features.
20 May 2007 - WarpPNG V45.9 released
WarpPNG has been updated, with the following changes:
- Updated with libpng 1.2.18.
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29 September 2006 - WarpPSD V45.4 released
A revised version of WarpPSD is available now. Changes as follows:
- Upto 10% faster
- Fixed broken 8-bit greyscale image decoding in the MorphOS version.
- Updated with the latest WarpDT engine build.
- Added native AmigaOS 4 version.
- Asynchronous i/o now uses dos/SendPkt instead of exec/PutMsg.
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.8j.
- Added Polish installer translation.
- Updated French and Spanish installers.
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27 September 2006 - WarpTIFF V45.7 released
A new version of WarpTIFF is now available:
- Updated to libtiff 3.8.2 and zlib 1.2.3.
- WarpOS and 68k versions upto 30% faster and 60% faster for MorphOS.
- Fixed crash and memory trashing problem when decoding fax images.
- Fixed cases where fax images were decoded as negative images.
- Fixed bugs in the CMYK to RGB conversion.
- Fixed broken 8-bit greyscale image decoding in the MorphOS version.
- Asynchronous i/o now uses dos/SendPkt instead of exec/PutMsg.
- Overhauled IEEE math lib usage in the 68k versions, fixing problems
with precision in the 020/030 versions and removing the restriction of
only being able to decode one image at a time.
- Updated with the latest WarpDT engine build.
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.8j.
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22 August 2006 - WarpPNG V45.8 released
An updated WarpPNG is available, with the following changes:
- Updated with libpng 1.2.12.
- Asynchronous i/o now uses dos/SendPkt instead of exec/PutMsg.
- Updated with the latest WarpDT engine build.
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.8j.
- OS4 version now requires kernel 51.4 or higher.
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20 January 2006 - WarpJPEG V45.5 released
A new version of WarpJPEG is out now - changes as follows:
- Fixed descriptor file to handle files with a non-JFIF APP0 marker.
- Asynchronous i/o now uses dos/SendPkt instead of exec/PutMsg.
- Updated with the latest WarpDT engine build.
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.8i.
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9 December 2005 - Server change
The change went pretty smoothly, so hopefully nobody noticed that this website changed to a different hosting provider today.
What should be noticable though is that downloads are much faster on our new server. Other than that, business as usual - an update to WarpJPEG will be coming soon, and I am also working on an updated WarpTIFF.
Happy Christmas to everybody, and especially to those of you who have chosen
to buy the WarpDTs!
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The WarpDT package (WarpJPEG, WarpPNG, WarpTIFF, WarpBMP, WarpPCX, WarpPSD and WarpDTPrefs)
is shareware, which means you are expected to register if you find
the datatypes useful after an evaluation period of 30 days, and wish to
continue using them.
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· MysticView - great window based viewer to use with the WarpDTs, especially if you have graphics card.
· PicShow - another viewer, but this one also supports image files containing multiple images (e.g. TIFF-FAX).
· SplitMultiImage - extract images from image files containing multiple images.
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| Attention WarpUp 5.1 users! |
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Due to a bug in the official powerpc.library v16.1 (7 February 2001) from the OS3.9 boing bag,
you may experience crashes from Defiant (WarpOS housekeeping task). If this proves to be
the case on your system, I recommend that you try using the
16.1beta1 version (7 January 2001)
of powerpc.library instead, available from
Frank Wille's ppclibemu page. There is
no real need to bother trying this beta version unless you do get the Defiant crashes.
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