WarpDT - Fast, powerful 24-bit picture datatypes for AmigaOS® & MorphOS

JPEG 45.8
23.2.2011

PNG 45.15
27.5.2011

TIFF 45.8
6.3.2011

BMP 45.7
11.3.2011

PCX 45.5
25.2.2011

PSD 45.5
11.3.2011

Prefs 45.5
8.6.2011

Fast, powerful 24-bit picture datatypes for AmigaOS® & MorphOS
68K (OS 3.x & Amithlon) and PowerPC (WarpOS, OS 4.x & MorphOS)
Copyright © 1999-2011 Oliver Roberts, All Rights Reserved.

WarpDT 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.

· News

8 June 2011 - WarpDTPrefs V45.5 released
A new version of WarpDTPrefs is available, with fixes as follows:

Fixed the "Save" button not actually saving to ENVARC: on OS4.

27 May 2011 - WarpPNG V45.15 released
An updated WarpPNG is available, with the following changes:

Fixed combining custom background with an alpha channel when images used <= 8 bits per pixel, which I broke in 45.14 resulting in pixel trash in blended areas of the image.
Applications may now configure the datatype settings via a local variable, overriding any global user settings present in ENV:.
Updated with libpng 1.5.2.

11 March 2011 - WarpBMP V45.7 & WarpPSD V45.5 released
Updates for WarpBMP and WarpPSD are now available, with these changes for WarpBMP:

Added workaround for a bug in OS4 which can cause a crash when a requester is opened (bug fixed in intuition.library 53.32).
Fixed (VBCC fix) potential system lockup when calling the GM_RENDER method in the WarpOS version (e.g. when using Multiview with the AfA OS picture.datatype).
Added AmiUpdate support.
Updated Spanish installer strings.

And these changes for WarpPSD:

Added workaround for a bug in OS4 which can cause a crash when a requester is opened (bug fixed in intuition.library 53.32).
Fixed (VBCC fix) potential system lockup when calling the GM_RENDER method in the WarpOS version (e.g. when using Multiview with the AfA OS picture.datatype).
Added workaround for a bug in OS4's datatypes.library DTST_MEMORY handling.
Enabled virtual memory usage in OS4 version.
MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9a.
OS4 version recompiled with latest SDK.
Added AmiUpdate support.
Updated Spanish installer strings.

6 March 2011 - WarpTIFF V45.8 released
A new version of WarpTIFF is now available. The changes are:

Can now decode images that use the JBIG compression scheme.
Added support for images that use 32 bits per sample.
Fixed decoding of 64-bit CMYK images.
Fixed decoding of planar RGB/CMYK images.
Fixed decoding of XIF images and old JPEG compressed files which got broken in 45.7.
Rewrote the XIF image support to work with the latest libtiff.
Enabled recognition of Microsoft Document Imaging TIFF files.
Updated with libtiff 3.9.4, zlib 1.2.5 and jpeglib 8c.
Added workaround for a bug in OS4 which can cause a crash when a requester is opened (bug fixed in intuition.library 53.32).
Fixed (VBCC fix) potential system lockup when calling the GM_RENDER method in the WarpOS version (e.g. when using Multiview with the AfA OS picture.datatype).
Added workaround for a bug in OS4's datatypes.library DTST_MEMORY handling.
Enabled virtual memory usage in OS4 version.
MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9a.
OS4 version recompiled with latest SDK.
Added AmiUpdate support.
Updated Spanish installer strings.

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	WarpBMP	45.7	70K
	WarpJPEG	45.8	207K
	WarpPCX	45.5	64K
	WarpPNG	45.15	202K
	WarpPSD	45.5	67K
	WarpTIFF	45.8	441K
	WarpDTPrefs	45.5	151K
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· Register

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.

· Links

· 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.

Attention WarpUp 5.1 users!

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.