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

 - Read standard ZSoft PC Paintbrush PCX files, including less common
   non-standard modes which Cloanto Personal Paint can save

 - Supports pixel bit depth of 1 or 8 and 1-8 planes of data, covering
   mono 1-bit images upto 24-bit RGB, both RLE compressed and uncompressed

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

 - Asynchronous double buffering techniques (WarpOS only) and file i/o,
   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
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ ----------
[unknown]                 5620    8508  66.1% -lh5- 02cc May  9 14:44 WarpPCXdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPCX.datatype.020
[unknown]                  125     140  89.3% -lh5- a6b4 May  9 14:56 WarpPCXdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPCX.datatype.030.pch
[unknown]                  728     912  79.8% -lh5- e91d May  9 14:56 WarpPCXdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPCX.datatype.040.pch
[unknown]                  854    1056  80.9% -lh5- f653 May  9 14:56 WarpPCXdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPCX.datatype.060.pch
[unknown]                 9521   20696  46.0% -lh5- cb22 May  9 14:56 WarpPCXdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPCX.datatype.mos
[unknown]                 9527   19644  48.5% -lh5- c00f May  9 14:56 WarpPCXdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPCX.datatype.os4
[unknown]                 8130   12488  65.1% -lh5- 5254 May  9 14:56 WarpPCXdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPCX.datatype.wos
[unknown]                  269     306  87.9% -lh5- d67a May  9 14:56 WarpPCXdt/Devs/Datatypes/PCX.68k
[unknown]                 1766    2519  70.1% -lh5- 4c32 Dec 15  1999 WarpPCXdt/Devs/Datatypes/PCX.info
[unknown]                  546    4686  11.7% -lh5- dff9 May  9 14:56 WarpPCXdt/Devs/Datatypes/PCX.os4
[unknown]                 5962   18419  32.4% -lh5- d11a May  8 13:56 WarpPCXdt/Install_WarpPCX
[unknown]                 1530    2007  76.2% -lh5- 9371 Aug  9  2003 WarpPCXdt/Install_WarpPCX.info
[unknown]                 9285   14636  63.4% -lh5- e89d May 16  1996 WarpPCXdt/spatch
[unknown]                 7757   20084  38.6% -lh5- 3c6c May  9 16:13 WarpPCXdt/WarpPCX.guide
[unknown]                 2306    2924  78.9% -lh5- d4e9 Mar  7  2001 WarpPCXdt/WarpPCX.guide.info
[unknown]                 2406    3144  76.5% -lh5- f320 Mar  7  2001 WarpPCXdt.info
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ ----------
 Total        16 files   66332  132169  50.2%            May 10 02:22