
                                 PlayIt v1.2

                       Shamrock Systems and Technology
                           #428, 10636 - 120 Street
                            Edmonton, Ab, T5H 4L5
                             CompuServe: 70274,24
               Internet: patrick@shamrck.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca


                                  What's New
                                  ----------

  Released  Ver  Description
  --------  ---  ------------------------------------------------------------

  Apr 1994  1.2  - Added support for the Multiple Document Interface.
                 - Improved playback rate of FLI movies.
                 - Added support for printing images.
                 - Cleaned up the code to allow for more efficient processing
                   of animations, and better execution rates all around.
                 - Added support for saving frame sequences and FLI movies in
                   AVI format.
                 - Added support for the Windows clipboard and ability to
                   select an area of the image regardless of zoom factor.
                 - Corrected a problem with writing TIFF images.
                 - Collapsed Open Image and Load Movie functions into a
                   single Open menu command.
                 - Changing zoom factor now resizes window to display size.

  Feb 1994  1.1  - Improved efficiency of gamma correction.
                 - Improved grayscale conversion process so images don't come
                   out quite so dark.
                 - Moved scaling functions to a new Zoom menu.
                 - Corrected a problem with displaying OS/2 BMP images.

  Dec 1993  1.0  - Initial release of PlayIt to great fanfare.


                             Planned Enhancements
                             --------------------

  The following list of enhancements will hopefully be in the next release,
  probably in June 1994 if my pattern keeps up.

    - Support for a toolbar and status bar.
    - Support for drag and drop.
    - Support for installable compressors when writing AVI and BMP files.
      This includes INDEO, Supermatch, and Microsoft video compression.
    - Ability to select an area, and then zoom that area to fit the window.
    - More image formats such as compressed TIFF, IFF, output of GIF, etc.
    - More movie formats such as GL (Grasp), the new FLI formats, MPEG, etc.
    - Support for Autodesk's Animation1 video driver if present.
    - Playback support for MIDI and WAV files.
    - Ability to display thumbnail views of animation frames as on a light
      table, and rearrange the frames in a new order.

  If you have any ideas for new features, please don't hesitate to let me
  know about them.

  Patrick Arial
  Shamrock Systems and Technology

