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