Please INFORM ME Of Any COMMENTS Or SUGGESTIONS That Can Help Make iNSANE ViEW (tm) Better. NOTE: This Version Of iNSANE ViEW (tm) Still Might Have Bugs. Please Report Any BUGS To Final Fantasy, Or My i-net address: dlydiard@linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us. Please Include: What Type Of Computer You Were Using. What OS, And What Else Was Running (If It's A Multitasking OS). What Exactly You Did (What Data Format Was Bieng Viewed). Error Message You Recieved (If There Was One). (Usually If You Get An Error Message, It's NOT Because Of A Bug). Disclaimer In No Way, Can iNSANE Productions(tm), Nor Any Of Its Members, Be Held Liable For ANY Damage By Our Productions. Our Productions Are Only Guaranteed To Occupy Disk Space, So Use At Your OWN RISK! Features Number Of Files And Number Of Scrollback Lines, Limited Only, To The Amount Of Memory You Have. Full Mouse Support. Built In ANSi Parser (ANSi.SYS Not Needed). ACiD's XBiN Support (Smooth Scrolling In All 8 Directions). ADF (Artworx Data Format) Support. BiN Support (Smooth Scrolling In All 8 Directions). iNSANE ViEW (tm) Will Auto Detect The Width Via SAUCE. If No SAUCE Was Found, You'll Be Prompted To Enter The Width. SAUCE Support. Baud Simulator For Viewing Files. File Masking. Drive And Directory Switching. Smooth Scroll Back In All Supported Video Modes. Manual/Auto Scroll In All Supported Video Modes. Internal Help Menu. Extended Colors (High Intensity Background Colors). FLi/FLC Support. Gif Viewing (256 Color Gif's Only). iNSANE ViEW (tm) Will Auto Detect The Resolution Of The Gif. If The Gif Has A Higher Resolution Than 1280x1024x256 The Gif Will Not Be Viewed (Black Screen) Or If You Don't Have Enough Video Memory The Gif Will Not Be Viewed. PCX Viewing. (256 Color Pcx's Only) iNSANE ViEW (tm) Will Auto Detect The Resolution Of THe PCX. If The PCX Has A Higher Resolution Than 1280x1024x256 The PCX Will Not Be Viewed (Black Screen) Of If You Don't Have Enough Video Memory The PCX Will Not Be Viewed. File Tagging "Slide Show". HSC Playing (HSC Player By Chicken [ECR]). NOTE: HSC Playing May Not Work Properly In Multitasking Enviroments. S3M Playing (Midas Sound System Was Used). NOTE: S3M Playing May Not Work Properly In Multitasking Enviroments. AND May Cause A System Crash (i.e. Win/Win95). OS Shelling. PoNG Screen Saver. iNSANE ViEW (tm) Info Mode. Directory Killer (Confirmation Asked). File Deleting (Will Delete All Tagged Files Also). Command Line Switches, Type iViEW -? For Help. iNSANE ViEW (tm) Will View The Folowing Data Formats: ANSi, XBiN, BiN, ADF, FLi, FLC, GiF, PCX, S3M, And HSC's. Comming Soon (?) - AN2 Support. When There's A Drawer Than Can Save In This Format, I'll Implement It (Since I Can Test It - iCE's iDF, Support (Is There An Info File On This Format?). - File Searcher. - Move/Copy File Functions. - MOD/WAV Support. - JPG Support (Maybe). - RiP Support (Working On The Bugs). - Internal Archive Viewing. - Audio CD Player. Requirments Microsoft Mouse Or Compatible. VGA Or Better Graphics. 386 Or Better. 500k Of Conventional Memory (Approximently). More Memory = Bigger Ansi/File Buffer. Soundblaster Or Compatible Sound Card (For Playing Music). One Of The Following Chip Sets (For SVGA): Aumos, Ahead, ATI Technologies, Avance, Chips and Technologies, Cirrus Logic, Everex, Genoa, MXIC, NCR, Oak Technologies, Paradise/Western Digital, Primus, Realtek, Trident, Tseng Labs, Video 7, Or VESA. If Your Video Card Was Not Specified Gif's/Pcx's Cannot Be Viewed In A Resolution Higher Than 320x200x256. Reconmended For Best Results: 486 Or Better. SVGA Graphics. Disk Cache. *EMS* Memory For S3M Modules. Keys KEYBOARD: F1 Internal Help Menu. F2 Toggle Viewing Video Modes 80x25, 80x28, 80x50 etc... F3 Toggle ANSi, Grey Scale, ASCii Viewing Modes. F4 Toggle Internal Font On/Off. F5 Toggle Baud Simulator Speeds. F6 Toggle Scroll Modes - Manual Scroll Or Auto Scroll. F7 Change File Mask. F12 Stop Playing Music (S3M/HSC). ESC Quit Viewer / Quit Viewing File / Quit Tag Queue / Quit Inputing File Mask (F7, No File ReScan). ENTER View File / Go Into Directory / Quit Viewing File. UP Go Up One File Or Line. DOWN Go Down One File Or Line. RIGHT Go Into Highlighted Directory. LEFT Go Back One Directory (cd SPC Tag A File / UnTag A File. BKSPC Toggle Extended Color On/Off. PGUP Scroll 1 Page Up. PGDN Scroll 1 Page Down. HOME Go To Begining Of ANSi Page Or File Listing. END Go To End Of ANSi Page Or File Listing. + Tag All Files. - UnTag All Files. ALT-D Delete Highlighted / Tagged File(s) Or Kill Directory (Confirmation Asked Upon Killing Directory) ALT-I iNSANE ViEW (tm) Info Mode. ALT-J Shell To OS. ALT-S Activate 'PoNG' Screen Saver. Player 1 Keys = 'a' and 'z' Player 2 Keys = UP and DN ESC = Quit (Any Time While Playing) ALT-X Quit Viewer / ESC Also Can Be Used. MOUSE: Left Button : View File Clicked On / Scroll ANSi Down Right Button: Tag/Untag File / Scroll ANSi Up Both Buttons: Quit Viewer / Show Next File In Queue. Stop Viewing File. Exit Information Window. iNSANE ViEW (tm) History 12-19-1996- Fixed Pong Game (Hopefully). It Was To Fast On Pentium Computers. 12-07-1996- Added ACiD's XBiN Support. 11-10-1996- Started Working On It Again, After 3 Months. =) Added BiN Support. Added ADF (Artworx Data Format) Support. Added int09 Keyboard Handler To Make Scrollback Smoother. Added Pong Screen Saver. Added Internal Recursive Directory Killer 'deltree'. Added New Ansi (Various Places). Ansi's By Arsenic [iNS]. Added Internal Help Menu. Ansi By Arsenic [iNS]. Known BUGS: Baud Simalator Doesn't Work (Not Really a Bug). In VESA Textmodes, Unwanted 'blocks' Might Appear. 8-05-1996 - Started Working On It, After 5 Months Of Being Lazy. =) Added In Command Line Options. Debug Mode (For Me Fixed Up Some Minor Things. Added Info Mode. 3-10-1996 - *Completely* Started From Scratch. Differences Of OuTPoST ViEW (tm) And iNSANE ViEW (tm): Added Full Mouse Support. Added S3M Support (S3M Player By Midas). Used Doubly Linked List For Files And Ansi Buffer. So Everything Is Only Limited To How Mutch Memory You Got. ALOT More Error Checking - *Everything* Is Error Checked. =) New Ansi's / VGA Loading Screen (VGA By Arsenic [iNS]). More Stable / Alot Faster Code. Added FLi/FLC Support. Took Away RiP Support (To Many Bugs Took Away Fadeing Rootines (Fadeing Got Boring). More Configurable. Got Rid Of The Config File. ALOT More NEW Features. Credits Art & Font : Arsenic [iNS] Main Interface : KaRNaGE [iNS] Mouse Interface : KaRNaGE [iNS] File Handling/SAUCE : KaRNaGE [iNS] ANSi Interface/Parser : KaRNaGE [iNS] ADF Parser : KaRNaGE [iNS] XBiN/BiN Parser : KaRNaGE [iNS] PoNG Game Interface : KaRNaGE [iNS] Keyboard Handler : KaRNaGE [iNS] FLi/FLC Parser : KaRNaGE [iNS] RiP Parser (not done) : KaRNaGE [iNS] GiF/PCX Palette Rootines: KaRNaGE [iNS] GiF/PCX Parser : SVGACC.LIB HSC Player : Chicken [ECR] S3M Player : Midas Everything Else Koded By: KaRNaGE [iNS] -= * Compiled With: Borland Turbo C++ 3.1 Questions? If You Have Any Questions On How I Did Something On The Viewer, Or Anything Else I Have Made, Just Ask Me. Reach Me At Final Fantasy or my i-net address: dlydiard@linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us. DO NOT ASK For Source For ANY OuTPoST Production (tm) or iNSANE Production (tm). I WILL NOT Give You The Source. I Can, However, Give You Snippets On How I Did Something From These Programs, But That's About It (Pretty Mutch, Just Don't Ask For The Whole Program's Source Kode, Cuz I Won't Give It To Ya). Greetz Greetz Go Out To... (In Random Order): All The Old Outpost Members: Arsenic, KiNETiC, aPoLLo, THe OVeRFieND, Visievion, VoToS LoCoS, heSter, Padre, Winter, Kevlar, Skydemon. Makaveli - R.I.P. That's It Latez. --KaRNaGE [iNS |