Changes since previous Aminet release:

 - Relaxed integrity checks to increase performance. Now 15-20%
   faster on 68k, 5-10% faster on OS4, 7% faster on WarpOS and
   5% faster on MorphOS.
 - Allow images with incorrect CMF bytes to be loaded - such
   images should really be fixed with pngfix [BUGID 0002].
 - Fixed faulty parsing of the background colour option.
 - Fixed incorrect default background colour reading on WarpOS.
 - Completely reworked more intelligent detection of features
   available in differing picture.datatype versions and a more
   robust detection of alpha channel support (OS 3.1.4 no longer
   misidentified as alpha aware).
 - 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.


FEATURES

 - Supports both normal and interlaced PNG files

 - Gamma correction options allow the output image to be changed to
   suit your monitor/environment

 - Alpha channel handling can be configured to output RGBA bitmaps, or
   RGB bitmaps either by combining the alpha information internally
   using a configurable background colour or simply stripping it

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

 - Based on libpng 1.6.37 and zlib 1.2.11


REQUIREMENTS

WarpPNG is a PNG datatype which utilizes and requires the following:

 - Kickstart 3.0 or higher
 - picture.datatype v43 or higher
   (i.e. either of the ones supplied with AmigaOS 3.5+, P96 or CGraphX)

 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]                25617   41568  61.6% -lh5- 85d2 May 11 19:26 WarpPNGdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPNG.datatype.020
[unknown]                  125     140  89.3% -lh5- ebb5 May 11 19:28 WarpPNGdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPNG.datatype.030.pch
[unknown]                 3532    4800  73.6% -lh5- 54c1 May 11 19:28 WarpPNGdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPNG.datatype.040.pch
[unknown]                 6132    8492  72.2% -lh5- d844 May 11 19:28 WarpPNGdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPNG.datatype.060.pch
[unknown]                18164   36116  50.3% -lh5- 36a1 May 11 19:28 WarpPNGdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPNG.datatype.mos.pch
[unknown]                35483   66368  53.5% -lh5- 313b May 11 19:26 WarpPNGdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPNG.datatype.os4
[unknown]                35728   66736  53.5% -lh5- 163b May 11 19:27 WarpPNGdt/Classes/Datatypes/WarpPNG.datatype.wos
[unknown]                  119     132  90.2% -lh5- 85ec May 11 19:27 WarpPNGdt/Devs/Datatypes/PNG
[unknown]                 1767    2519  70.1% -lh5- 1f25 Jan  3  2000 WarpPNGdt/Devs/Datatypes/PNG.info
[unknown]                 5923   18312  32.3% -lh5- 399e Apr  7 13:48 WarpPNGdt/Install_WarpPNG
[unknown]                 1540    2025  76.0% -lh5- 001b Jan  3  2000 WarpPNGdt/Install_WarpPNG.info
[unknown]                 9285   14636  63.4% -lh5- e89d May 16  1996 WarpPNGdt/spatch
[unknown]                14249   40450  35.2% -lh5- ff77 May 11 20:31 WarpPNGdt/WarpPNG.guide
[unknown]                 2308    2924  78.9% -lh5- 9746 Dec 15  1999 WarpPNGdt/WarpPNG.guide.info
[unknown]                 2406    3144  76.5% -lh5- 330f Mar  7  2001 WarpPNGdt.info
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ ----------
 Total        15 files  162378  308362  52.7%            May 12 05:08