cview097.txt

Subj:  CVIEW386: V.97 WIN JPEG GIF BMP Viewer
Date:  June 11, 1992

File:  CVIEW097.ZIP (204683 bytes)

AUTHOR:    Millennium Technologies Corporation
EQUIPMENT: 286 or better, 4Mb RAM
NEEDS:     An UnZIPing Program and Windows 3.x

Type:      Shareware

ColorView is a color image viewer designed for Microsoft Windows. 
In this version, ColorView supports reading the following formats:
 o  JPEG (JFIF subset)
 o  GIF'87, GIF'89 (only simple images)
 o  Windows BMP files (4, 8 and 24 bit, uncompressed)

and writing the following formats:
 o  GIF'87
 o  Windows BMP files (8 and 24 bit, uncompressed)

ColorView will work with:
 o  4 bit, 16 color standard VGA boards (poor color reproduction)
 o  8 bit, 256 color display boards 
 o  15 bit, 32768 color display boards
 o  24 bit color display boards
 o  Microsoft Windows 3.0 and 3.10
 o  2 MB or more of physical memory
 o  80286, 80386-SX, 80386, 80486 processors

ColorView provides: 
 o  Floyd-Steinberg dithering
 o  Heckbert color reduction
 o  one pass Fast Quantization color reduction
 o  Gamma correction,
 o  Hue, Saturation, and Brightness controls.

Two versions of ColorView are available in this archive: 
ColorView '286 and ColorView '386.

The '386 version of ColorView uses Intel 80386 (and higher) 
instruction set to optimize decompression. As the result, it 
is twice as fast as the ColorView '286 in displaying JPEG images. 

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A 80386-DX or 80386-SX CPU BEFORE 
ATTEMPTING TO RUN COLORVIEW '386!