Description:
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P96Speed is a graphics benchmark program.

It will test standard graphics routines of graphics and intuition library.

It is absolutly independent and should work with any known graphics system
like Picasso96/CyberGraphX or simply on standard AGA screens.

You can also compare different systems with P96Speed.

Please report any problem or suggestion directly to me.

Jens Langner....
htw10895@informatik.htw-dresden.de
http://p96speed.home.pages.de/

Requirements:
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- Kickstart and Workbench 2.0 (V36+)
- Motorola MC68020 processor or better,
- gtlayout.library v16+     (Olaf Barthel)
- identify.library v8+      (Richard Koerber)

P96Speed is EMailware. This means, if you are using this program you have to
write a email to me (htw10895@informatik.htw-dresden.de).


Short history:
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  1.2 (February 10, 1999)
    February 10, 1999
      - after a long night I removed a mungwall hit which was caused by a bad
        initialized timer.device. This hit corrupted the memlist which often
        ends up in random crashes. (Jens Tröger)
    February 09, 1999
      - found/removed a enforcer hit which happened on using the menu shortcuts.
    February 08, 1999
      - added french localization. (Pascal Chiozzi)
      - added russian localization. (Russian Amiga Translation Organization)
      - found/removed bug in the locale initialization which caused weird pointers
        that sometimes hung the system.
      - found/removed ugly bug in the load IFF routines where I didn`t terminated
        strings correctly.
    February 06, 1999
      - found/removed bug which caused recoverable alerts on "reload database"
        (Rene. W. Olsen)
    February 04, 1999
      - reordered the shortcuts(Hotkeys) for the testroutines to be more simple
        (Niels Knoop)
      - hopefully removed the ugly GUI bug when switching the Pagegroups, the
        standard buttons got corrupt. (Niels Knoop)
      - fixed the installscript to work correctly with the new installer
        (SaVInstaller) (Jens Tröger)
    February 02, 1999
      - reordered the testroutines in the "compare machine" register and also
        added the forgotten difference field.
        (Niels Knoop)

  1.1 (January 30, 1999)
    January 28, 1999
      - removed the requirement of the identify.library introduced with the
        v1.0 version. Now you can also use P96Speed without this library, but
        a warningrequester will pop up. (Tobias Abt)
    January 27, 1999
      - implemented new testroutine Draw() Hor/Ver, that tests the speed of
        drawing horizontal and vertical Lines. (Niels Knoop)
    December, 1998
      - disabled multitasking for ScrollRaster() routines.
      - doublechecked all drawroutines again to be sure to NOT draw outside the
        RastPort which caused crashes with WritePixelLine8().
      - modified the way that all tests are run. Now the screen will not close
        and open everytime if you running "Run all tests."
      - The Draw() testroutine will now draw a circle to test the speed. This way
        of testing Draw() is more "standard" ;)
      - WritePixel() will now draw all pixel on random colors.
      - included some more error-checks
      - added a requester to tell the user that he/she is trying to load an
        incompatible version of a database.
      - removed bug on the autoselection of the screenmode.
      - changed the BuildEasyRequesters to act as v2.0+ EasyRequest requesters.
        (Jens Tröger)
      - using my best friends tools lib "savage.lib" with many useful functions.
        (Jens Tröger)
      - removed a ugly bug in the list/node handling (Jens Tröger)

  1.0 (December 8, 1998)
    November, 1998
      - bumped version up to v1.00 because P96Speed is final now. All known bugs
        should be removed.
        Please report any bugs who are left directly to:
        htw10895@informatik.htw-dresden.de
      - recompiled P96Speed with StormC v3.0
        all future versions of P96Speed will be compiled with StormC

  0.18ß (internal release)
    October, 1998
      - added feature to also select the source machine for the comparsion.
      - added feature to select the comparsion machine directly from the
        comparsion page.
      - added long awaited locale support. Now every guy can tune his own
        translation (P96Speed.cd included)
      - fixed bug in the ScreenTitle allocation.
      - forgot to free some memory in the list/node routines
      - added more information to the database like Owner, E-mail etc.
      - removed ugly bug in the TAB_KIND notification with the AutoPageID feature
        of gtlayout. (Olaf Barthel)
      - rewritten the IFFParse routines completly from scratch. Implemented it in
        a way that future versions of P96Speed will stay compatible in the file
        format. Earlier versions ( < 0.18ß) are now incompatible with the file
        format of the compare datas. Iam sorry for that but this change was
        needed to keep the format compatible in future versions.
      - added feature to sort the entries in the database (Top/Up/Down/Bottom).
      - Now you can directly choose a screenmode if the programm requests you for
        one.
      - Changed the way the save button will be handled. It will change its name
        in the different pagegroups.
      - Changed the layout of the GUI a little bit to solve problems with long
        strings
      - again optimzed the timing routine that calculates the executed operations
        per second.
      - now P96Speed uses GetSysTime() instead of requesting Time with
        TR_GETSYSTIME this should make the tests more accurate.
      - removed bug in the WritePixelLine8() routine. The lines were drawn
        outside the rastport what results in some crashes on PAL Screens.

... more history in .guide file ...

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[generic]                 1628    3052  53.3% -lh5- 615c Feb  7  1999 P96Speed/catalogs/russian/P96Speed.catalog
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[generic]                  380     737  51.6% -lh5- 7854 Nov  8  1998 P96Speed/Install_Deutsch.info
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