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@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ + + THE UNIVERSAL IFF LIBRARY FOR THE AMIGA + + VERSION 20.1, 09-OCT-90 + + BY + + CHRISTIAN A. WEBER + BRUGGERWEG 2 + CH-8037 ZURICH + SWITZERLAND + + (e-mail: cbmehq!cbmswi!mighty!chris@cbmvax.commodore.com) + + +THIS PROGRAM IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. IT MAY BE FREELY DISTRUBUTED, COPIED +AND USED FOR COMMERCIAL OR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. IT MAY BE DISTRIBUTED +WITH OR WITHOUT THIS DOCUMENTATION FILE. + +TO MAINTAIN COMPATIBILITY, YOU SHOULD NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE LIBRARY +ITSELF. UPDATES WILL BE RELEASED BY THE AUTHOR. HOWEVER, YOU MAY CHANGE +THE SOURCE CODES OR USE THEM IN YOUR OWN PROGRAMS. + + +WHAT IS THE IFF LIBRARY ? +------------------------- + +The iff.library is an easy to use Amiga library which gives you some +powerful routines to deal with IFF files, especially ILBM files (pictures). +It was fully written in Assembler and is only 2.7 KBytes long. The de- +crunching routines are the fastest I've ever written :-) +To use the library, copy it to the 'LIBS:' directory of your startup-disks. +Since the iff.library is a standard Amiga library, it can be used from any +programming language such as C, C++, Modula-2, Assembler, Pascal, Basic and +many more. + +I started writing this library in September 1987, and now it is really bug- +free (I hope) and it can handle any IFF files I know, including DPaint pic- +tures with stencil, HAM and halfbrite pictures, ANIM files (with a trick), +SHAM files, SoundFX instruments, and all other IFF files which do not con- +tain nested chunks. + +If you have any questions or suggestions, you can reach me on BIX (chw), +or by e-mail (cbmehq!cbmswi!zethos!mighty!chris@cbmvax.commodore.com) +or on Internet until dec 1990 (cweber@iiic.ethz.ch), +or write me a letter to Switzerland ... + |