Changes since previous Aminet release:

 - Applications may now configure the datatype settings via a local
   variable, overriding any global user settings present in ENV:.
 - Completely reworked more intelligent detection of features
   available in differing picture.datatype versions.
 - Changed prefs loading routine due to dos/ReadArgs() on MorphOS not
   being fully compatible with AmigaOS, which was causing the prefs
   to not always be read properly.
 - Replaced usage of old Exec and Dos OS4 functions with the new ones.
 - Minor optimizations and improvements.
 - MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9g.
 - OS4 version recompiled with GCC 8.1.0.
 - All benchmarks recomputed after the repair of my A1200, with
   SCSI2SD replacing my SCSI HDD and disabling all debug tools.
 - Updated Spanish installer.


FEATURES

 - Supports common BMP file types, including both Windows and OS/2 BMP
   formats.  These include BMP images with a bit depth of 1, 4, 8, 16, 24
   and 32, both uncompressed and RLE compressed

 - Highly optimized datatype dispatch engine and BMP decoder,
   resulting in a very efficient, compact and quick BMP datatype

 - Asynchronous file i/o and double buffering techniques (WarpOS only),
   which speeds up image decoding
 
 - Optimized versions for 68020, 030, 040 and 060

 - PowerPC support with native OS4, WarpOS and MorphOS versions

 - Alter the pen allocation precision when images are remapped to an
   8-bit display

 - Specific support for the AmigaOS picture.datatype v44+, when available

 - The dithering feature of the AmigaOS picture.datatype v44+ can be
   configured to your liking (e.g. disabled for 15/16-bit displays)


REQUIREMENTS

This datatype needs the following in order to work:

 68k version

 - Kickstart 3.0 or higher
 - 68020 processor or higher (optimized versions included)
 - picture.datatype v43 or higher
   (supplied with AmigaOS 3.1.4, 3.5, 3.9, CyberGraphX, P96 or AfA OS)

 WarpOS version

 - Kickstart 3.0 or higher
 - PPC accelerator card + 68040/060
 - WarpUp Release 5.0 or higher
 - picture.datatype v43 or higher
   (supplied with AmigaOS 3.1.4, 3.5, 3.9, CyberGraphX, P96 or AfA OS)

 OS4 version

 - PPC accelerator card / AmigaOne / SAM
 - AmigaOS 4.0 or higher

 MorphOS version

 - PPC accelerator card / Pegasos / Efika
 - MorphOS 1.4 or higher

Note that a graphics card is not necessary.

PERMISSION  UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP     NAME
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[unknown]                 6700   10660  62.9% -lh5- fc56 May  9 14:37 WarpBMPdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpBMP.datatype.020
[unknown]                  127     140  90.7% -lh5- 20f8 May  9 14:53 WarpBMPdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpBMP.datatype.030.pch
[unknown]                  921    1180  78.1% -lh5- ed2b May  9 14:53 WarpBMPdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpBMP.datatype.040.pch
[unknown]                 1327    1696  78.2% -lh5- e84f May  9 14:53 WarpBMPdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpBMP.datatype.060.pch
[unknown]                10688   23168  46.1% -lh5- ea6f May  9 14:46 WarpBMPdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpBMP.datatype.mos
[unknown]                11439   24812  46.1% -lh5- 3a87 May  9 14:46 WarpBMPdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpBMP.datatype.os4
[unknown]                 9295   15036  61.8% -lh5- 3772 May  9 14:45 WarpBMPdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpBMP.datatype.wos
[unknown]                  105     118  89.0% -lh5- 3cd7 May  9 14:53 WarpBMPdt/Devs/Datatypes/BMP
[unknown]                 1766    2519  70.1% -lh5- 4c32 Dec 15  1999 WarpBMPdt/Devs/Datatypes/BMP.info
[unknown]                 5919   18181  32.6% -lh5- 620f May  8 13:53 WarpBMPdt/Install_WarpBMP
[unknown]                 1540    2025  76.0% -lh5- dc45 Mar  7  2001 WarpBMPdt/Install_WarpBMP.info
[unknown]                 9285   14636  63.4% -lh5- e89d May 16  1996 WarpBMPdt/spatch
[unknown]                 8784   23055  38.1% -lh5- b55d May  9 15:42 WarpBMPdt/WarpBMP.guide
[unknown]                 2306    2924  78.9% -lh5- d4e9 Mar  7  2001 WarpBMPdt/WarpBMP.guide.info
[unknown]                 2406    3144  76.5% -lh5- f320 Mar  7  2001 WarpBMPdt.info
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 Total        15 files   72608  143294  50.7%            May 10 02:22