PTC060 (12/12/97)
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Information
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PTC is a fast, portable and free truecolor graphics system for C++
programmers. PTC handles all the low level details such as mode setting, 
memory surfaces and blitting while providing the programmer with a simple
platform independant interface. 

PTC is free for non-commercial use.

NOTE: This is a pre release of PTC060. This release is does not have the 
documentation, new examples programs and other minor things that will be 
included in the final PTC060 release. Watcom C++ 10.0 support and Borland C++ 
support are also missing from this release. Please note that this release is 
stable, this is not a "bug test", it is *real* release for people who are
interested in getting it the latest version before all this extra "polish" is 
added :)
 


New features
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-Completed GDI interface for fast windowed output under Win32
-Fully functional BitBlt between surfaces of any dimension
-Added support for surface orientations (topdown or bottomup)
-Fixed PTC to coexist with Midas and Allegro under DJGPP 2.x
-New "Clipper" object to implement clipping with surfaces
-Added the ability to share a single palette across any number of surfaces
-Added surface clear functionality for all formats except fakemodes
-Added fast dithered output for 256 color displays under windows
-Fixed 256 color output under Win32 with window palettes
-Added Watcom C++ 10.5, 10.6 and 11.0 Win32 platform support
-Largely redesigned internal blitting core built around the new "RASTER" class
-Huge increase in stability thanks to BoundsChecker



Supported compilers
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-Watcom C++ 10.5, 10.6 and 11.0
-Visual C++ 4.x and 5.x
-DJGPP 2.x
-Cygnus GNU-Win32

 

Getting started
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Please see the file "changes.txt" for *very* important information for people
who have used previous versions of PTC, and "license.txt" for copyright and 
conditions of use.

First time users should now check out the example programs in the examples 
directory. "rand32.cpp" is a very good place to start.



Web Site
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Look for PTC updates and information at http://www.zip.com.au/~gaffer/ptc




cheers
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Gaffer [xtatic]
gaffer@bigfoot.com

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