Version 1.21 - Jan. 1995 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o Uses CTL3DV2.DLL instead of CTL3D.DLL o Executable is a lot smaller o Fixed bug that caused images in the root directory of a drive to not be recognized properly o Fixed bug that caused ACDSee to crash if the root directory of a drive contained no files or subdirectories o Having two top-level windows was the source of some grief for the Windows window manager. Now the Image Browser and View Window are both child windows of an invisible main window. o Targa (TGA) images which are RLE-compressed are now read properly o Thumbnails are now generated properly for Grayscale Targa (TGA) images o Fixed bug that caused thumbnails to sometimes be displayed in full size and colour o ACDSee will now spawn itself to view an image even if no association has been made to ACDSee for that file type Version 1.2 - Jan. 1995 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o Replaced the Open Image dialog with the Image Browser window, providing o optional quick image preview o coloured filenames o optional 4DOS descriptions and image information o 4DOS descriptions may be edited o window may be resized o option to spawn a new copy of ACDSee for each image opened o allows launching of other application via file associations o Added slideshow support o Added option to automatically resize the viewing window or not o Added Always-On-Top option o Added Full-Screen option o Added Drag-and-Drop support o The view window may now be scrolled using the cursor keys o Added GIF interlaced suppport, and GIF preview o Added PCX support o Added TGA support o Added BMP support (no OS/2 or RLE right now) o Added new quantization/dithering routines: No dithering, Ordered Dithering and Floyd-Steinburg dithering (except for JPEG Ordered, which is hard-coded into the decoder) o Added Floyd Steinburg dithering process to the thumbnails when the source image is highcolor or truecolor (except to JPEG, which is Ordered and hard coded into the decoder) No dithering for paletted images right now. o Removed support for scroll bars in the view window o Fixed a bug in the registration dialog box that prevented people with long names from registering Version 1.1 - Dec. 1994 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o Added support for non-interlaced, single-image GIFs o Added JPEG quick preview feature o Improved the registration system o ACDSee uses less memory now o Changed the halftone palette system o Added the #colours in the image to the title bar display Version 1.01 - Dec. 1994 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o Fixed bug that caused ACDSee to crash when multiple copies were running simultaneously (the problem was that I was grabbing a device context and holding it during compression, which is a no-no -- windows only supports five concurrent device contexts) o Vast improvement in image quality when displaying grayscale JPEG's in 256-color mode. o Re-organized code to make it easier to add other image formats, such as GIF (yes, it's coming...). Version 1.0 - Nov. 1994 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Initial release.