diff --git a/doc/history.txt b/doc/history.txt deleted file mode 100644 index eab074ab..00000000 --- a/doc/history.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,273 +0,0 @@ -HISTORY of GRAFX: (in chronological order: latest version at the end) - -* GRAFX 1.0á -> 1.02 (09/??/1995 -> 07/??/1996) - Forget it! - -* GRAFX 2.00 Beta 90% (11/01/1996) - Wired'96 release - This version was 1st shown at the Wired'96 demo party in Belgium. - We gave it to many people there, so let's start history from here. - Note that there were a few different "90%" versions because we didn't - want to change the number just for tiny bug-fixes. - -* GRAFX 2.00 Beta 91% (11/20/1996) - - Fixed: Terrific bug in Help/Messages (one line was too long and - crashed the program!). - - Added: Some new parameters for the settings. - - Added: Now, you can automatically set the best resolution for the - picture loaded and/or slightly adapt the picture to keep the colors of - the menu (for those who want to use GrafX2 as a viewer). - - Fixed: Bug that occured when you wanted to restore your previous - brush while being in "grab brush" mode. - - Added: English user's manual written (will be updated later, and - translated into French). - - Fixed: No more displays pixels out of the preview window when - loading corrupt pictures. - - Fixed: Small bug in LBM loading (for non-standard widths). - - Fixed: Minor error when saving the original screen dimensions in PKM - files. (we didn't save words with Intel conventions) - - Fixed: Exactly the same bug for LBM (but with Motorola conventions) - - Removed: No more saving the current palette when exiting the program - (that was useless and boring when pictures had a weird palette). - -* GRAFX 2.00 Beta 92% (11/27/1996) - - Fixed/Removed: Error message occuring when accessing a drive with no - disk or so finally suppressed! - - Fixed: BMP loading was almost completely bugged and it should now be - completely debugged. - - Fixed/Modified: Set_palette routine (the previous one was fast but - did not work with some weird cards that don't support a REP OUTSB). - - Added: Multi-Undo. - - Added: Backup (*.BAK) files. - -* GRAFX 2.00 Beta 93% (12/12/1996) - - Fixed: Bug that occured when approaching the borders of the screen - in grid mode with the type of cursor used for brush grabbing. - - Fixed: Small but annoying bug when saving files with a name of 9 - characters. - - Fixed: Saved PAL files no longer modify the picture's name (some - mistake must have been done when we implemented the backup option). - - Added: Now, you can stop the loading of previews by pressing a key. - - Improved: Video cards that don't use the same VESA bank for reading - and writing should now work correctly. - - Improved: Frame displayed around the magnifier's preview. - - Improved: Menu of resolutions completely modified, and many new - modes added. - - Modified: The default colors of the menu have been slightly - lightened. - - Improved: The whole configuration is now saved and reloaded in the - settings menu. - -* GRAFX 2.00 Beta 94.0|1|2% (02/13-23/1997) - ACE CD #4 & Volcanic3 releases - (These different versions were too close from each other to be - separated in this file. Just check the last modifications to know - which version you have) - - Added/Improved: (approximative) HAM6 and HAM8 support in IFF(LBM) - files, and improved compatibily with Amiga IFF files => should be - total now. - - Added: The absolutely useless :) CEL and KCF (KISS) file formats. - - Added: The not much more useful SCx (ColoRIX) file format. - - Improved: You can now use the keys to scroll the text in the Help. - - Fixed: Small bug in the scrolling list of resolutions (1 extra line - was displayed at the end of the list when current mode was 640x512). - - Added: English user's manual translated into French (and corrected.. - There can be bugs in text files :)). - - Improved: Now, you can use the brush as an eraser by right clicking. - - Added: X-Invert in the palette editor. - - Fixed: Small bug in the reduce-palette function. - - Improved: GIF saving strongly accelerated (finally!). - - Improved: Shade mode completely modified (customized shades added). - - Fixed: Tiny bug in the block definition of the palette editor. - - Improved: Non-standard PCX files that don't reset the compression - after each line should be supported now (at least for 256-color - pictures). - - Added: Undo in the Shade menu. - - Added: Statistics screen. - -* GRAFX 2.00 Beta 94.666% (03/20/1997) - - Fixed: Statistics screen no longer displays that VESA 1.2 is not - supported. - - Fixed: A few bugs of no consequence. - - Fixed: Bug in the mode-X initialization introduced in the previous - version. - - Added: It is possible to choose between Relative and Absolute - coordinates in the settings menu. - - Improved: The colors of the menu are now calculated from the current - palette, so you won't have to be concerned by the colors of the menu - any more. - - Fixed: The VESA modes are no longer disabled for some video cards. - - Imporoved: "Windows 95" keys are now usable. - - Modified: We now use the EOS dos-extender Copyright (c) 1996 by - Eclipse, so read carefully the docs if you can't use GrafX2 anymore. - -* GRAFX 2.00 Beta 95% (07/18/1997) - Wired'97 release - (It's GrafX2 creation's 1st anniversary! =D (...but still Beta :/) - We wrote the usual "void main(int argc, char * argv[])" one year ago!) - - Fixed: PCX files with odd widths should be supported now. (We fixed - a bug in version 94.1% which added a new one) :( - - Fixed: Small display bug in the grid of the Sieve menu. - - Fixed: Oops! We forgot to remap the colors of the menu when loading - a PAL file. That's stupid! :) - - Improved: The number of predefined paintbrushes has been doubled. - - Added: Outline and Nibble effects for brushes. - - Improved: The "Brush grabbing", "Zoom" and "Pipette" options are no - more stopped by hiding/showing the tool-bar. - - Improved: Now, you can change the current color while drawing. - - Improved: The "auto-set resolution" option works better. - - Added: The 3 color components are displayed in the toolbar when you - want to choose a color. - - Added: A small preview of the color selected by the pipette is - displayed in the tool-bar. - - Fixed: GIF saving (the bug didn't corrupt the file but resulted in a - file that wasn't as well compressed as it should have been). - - Fixed: GIF loading doesn't flash any more on some pictures that were - not corrupt; and LBM neither when loading is interrupted by user. - - Added: Menu where you can choose what you want to copy to the spare - page (pixels, palette, or both...). - - Modified: The size of the palette editor has been very slightly - reduced. - - Modified: The Stencil is now taken into account when using the - "Clear" button. - - Improved: The "magnify" mode is finally displayed with a splitted - screen where you can see both zoomed and unzoomed parts of the picture. - - Added: Now, you can load a picture from the command line (type - "gfx2 /?" for the syntax). - - Added: The preview of a PAL file is now displayed in file-selectors. - - Modified: The tool-bar has been reduced vertically by about 1/3. - - Fixed: Bug in the Grid menu. (The user was able to enter a null grid - step. Doh!) - - Added: "Adjust brush pick" option. - - Fixed: DP2e (LBM-"PBM") files (including new BBM files) with odd - width are now loaded correctly. - - Improved: LBM files are now saved with their exact width and not - with a multiple-of-16 witdh (viewers that can't read these files are - "badly coded" because we save them correctly). - - Improved: The selector bar is now placed on last visited directory - when you change directory. - - Added: "Mask" drawing mode. - - Added: "Smear" drawing mode. - - Improved: "Shade" mode options (normal, loop, saturation). - - Added: You can define if you want Feedback (or not) while drawing - in the drawing modes (effects). - - Improved: The amount of memory used for brushes has been reduced. - - Improved: Scrolling lists speed slightly accelerated. - - Improved: FloodFill slightly accelerated. - -* GRAFX 2.00 Beta 95.5% (09/04/1997) - - Improved: SCx files with less than 256 colors are now supported. - - Fixed: Bug when double-clicking on the Floodfill button. - - Fixed: Bug when "flood-filling" with an effect with feedback. - - Fixed: Bug when filling a vertical-1-pixel-wide area. - - Fixed: Bug of the shape of the cursor when a window is open in - magnify mode. - - Added: Special cursor shape for the pipette. - - Modified: The method to recenter the page when exiting magnifier - mode (the picture recovers its position as it was before zooming). - - Added: Linear Frame Buffer (VESA 2.0 LFB) supported. - - Added: You can now load and save brushes (from the Brush FX menu). - - Fixed: A few video modes (Modes X with a height multiple of 270). - - Fixed: You couldn't save the configuration in the settings menu if - the Auto-save option was off. - - Improved: Polyform has now reached its definitive behaviour. - - Added: Polyfill and filled polyform. - - Added: Lasso (polyformed brushes). - - Added: Concentric lines. - - Added: GFX2.INI file (check its contents for new options). - - Improved: GFX2.CFG file will have ascending compatibility with - future versions from now. - - Added: Some drawing tips have been detailed in the documentation - files. - - Improved: Pipette handling. - -* GRAFX 2.00 Beta 96% (11/03/1997) - Saturne (aborted) party 5 release - - Added: Now, you can increase or decrease the size of the paintbrush. - The default keys are [,<] and [.>] ([;.] and [:/] for azerty). - - Added: Typing the first letters of a filename in file-selectors will - place the selection bar onto it. - - Fixed: Small but annoying bugs in the writing of the GFX2.CFG file - in GFXCFG. The data concerning Shade and Stencil modes were destroyed. - - Added/Improved: It is now possible to define the matrix of the - Smooth mode. We also seized the opportunity to improve the Smooth on - the boundaries of the picture, and to improve the function that - calculates nearest colors. - - Added: The "Replace color" option that replaces all the pixels of - the color pointed by the mouse with the paintbrush color. This tool is - accessible by right clicking on the Floodfill button. - - Improved: FloodFill slightly accelerated (especially with small - surfaces). - - Fixed: The picture was automatically zoomed when choosing a zoom - factor in the menu if the Fast_zoom option was set. - - Added: "Stretch brush". - - Added: Now, you can move windows (menus) and even hide the palette - menu for picking a color that is behind it (with the key just below - ). - - Fixed: Small bug in "Menu_ratio=2" mode when remapping the screen - after color changes. - - Added: "Thin" cursor type (looks like VGApaint's one). - - Fixed: A few video modes (Modes X with a height multiple of 224 and - some others). - - Added: It is now possible to select the colors that can be used for - the smooth and transparency modes, and remapping. - - Fixed: Clicking twice on the Lasso button did not restore the paint- - brush correctly. - - Fixed: the absolute coordinates option wasn't correctly saved in - the .INI file. - - Added: A few new parameters can be defined in the .INI file. - - Added: "Copy palette to spare page and remap destination" option - (accessible from the "Copy to spare page" menu (default: Shift+Tab)). - -* GRAFX 2.00 Beta 96.1% (02/28/1998) - Volcanic Party 4 release - - Fixed: File selector gauges don't bug any more when there are more - than 584 entries :) in the current directory. - - Fixed: The file selector _should_ hang no more on non-image (or - corrupt image) files containing data that look like a known format - signature. - - Fixed: Old and horrible :) video bug. Most of the VESA video cards - that displayed unexpected pixels (when moving the mouse for instance) - should work better (perfectly?) now. - - Fixed: The mouse correction factors didn't work properly. - - Added: Quick-shade mode. - - Improved: You can hide any menu that needs a color selection to pick - up a color behind the window. - - Added: A couple of new parameters in the GFX2.INI file. - -* GRAFX 2.00 Alpha 96.3% (04/11/1998) - Lucky n' Tigrou Party 2 release - !!! Warning: possibly unstable version !!! - - Improved: You can edit pictures bigger than 1024x768, and small - pictures take much less memory, allowing to have many more undo pages! - - Improved: The list of undo pages is preserved when you load a - picture, modify its size, or just go to the spare page. - - Added: You can "kill" a page (i.e. removing it from the list of undo - pages). - - Modified: The Settings menu has been reorganized. - - Improved: The drawing mode is no more set to "discontinuous" by - default. - - Improved: The function to compute the best matching RGB color used - in smooth, colorize, and some other operations has been strongly - accelerated on 486 and Cyrix processors, while it should be about the - same speed or very slightly slower on Intel Pentiums (II) than before. - - Fixed: The program finally works under Windows NT (without dos4gw)! - -* GRAFX 2.00 Beta 96.5% (12/23/1999) - Xmas'99 release - - Fixed: This version seems (is!) stable even with huge pictures. :) - - Fixed: A few options on brushes kept modifying the continuity of the - free-hand drawing mode. - - Fixed: The "nibble brush" operation crashed sometimes. - - Fixed: Remapping the screen after modifying colors in the palette - editor displayed, in rare cases, unexpected pixels or even crashed. - It didn't remap correctly the picture in "Magnify" mode, too. - - Fixed: Catastrophic bug occuring when you "flood-filled" an area - starting at the bottom of the picture. - - Added: An option in GFX2.INI to tell if the number of colors used - must be automatically calculated, and another one for the default - video mode at startup. - - Fixed: The colors of the menu are now correctly remapped when - getting colors from the brush. - - Added: Degas Elite's file formats (PI1,PC1,...) support. - - Added: True-color BMP (Windows) and PCX images can be loaded. They - will be converted to a 256-color image with palette optimization and - Floyd/Steinberg dithering. Note: some other true-color formats will be - added in the next release. - - Fixed: Loading corrupt pictures with null dimensions could crash. - - Improved: Brush streching is now in "real time" (and snaps to the - grid if "Adjust brush picking" is set). - - Added: Brush rotation by any angle.