Image to ZX Spec 1.3.1 - Changelog

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.3.1:

January 31st, 2012

· Added Anim Gif export feature.
· Updated licence/about information.

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.3.0_01:

June 20th, 2011

· Fixed bad line numbering in Simple BASIC Loader.

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.3.0:

March 5th, 2011

· Added "GigaScreen" palette mode (102 colours).
· Added "Reduced Set Colours" attribute favouritism.
· Added drag and drop support.
· Added proportional 256x192 preview capability to the dither preview dialog.
· Removed lesser used tape loaders.
· Fixed main window size bug.
· Fixed missing dialog icon bug.
· Improved Contrast slider sensitivity.
· Improved preview repaint for Java >1.6.0_2x.
· Updated readme and about dialog text.
· Updated copyrights.

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.2.1_02:

June 3rd, 2010

· Added forced half/full brightness attribute favouritism modes.
· Changed dither preview font to bold dark grey for easier reading.
· Updated the start screen logo to be part Spectrumized.

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.2.1_01:

May 3rd, 2010

· Fixed thread safety issue which might occasionally cause missed frames.
· Removed some unnecessary code and shortened after conversion wait.
· Updated text on BASIC loaders to describe what the delay does.
· Added new BASIC Black Simple loader.
· Updated readme text.

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.2.1:

April 12th, 2010

· Improved UI drop list sizes in Windows.
· Improved UI spacing on Ubuntu.
· Small reorganisation of the Options tool bar items.
· Improved readme.txt documenting the features.
· Added improved Black Bordered Buffered USR 0 (128K) tap video/slideshow loader.

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.2:

April 12th, 2010

· Added AVI and MOV video conversion (limited codecs however).
· Added large performance improvements.
· Added multi CPU work dispatcher engine.
· Added threads per CPU option.
· Added tap video/slideshow basic loader option.
· Added Buffered USR 0 (128K) tap video/slideshow loader.
· Added FPS counter and option (using 2 second interval).
· Added option to disable the WIP preview.
· Added option to specify the video sample framerate.
· Improved Low Error Atkinson dither to 25% error.
· Improved colour code performance (reduced object overhead).
· Memory settings changed (>512MB contiguous minimum).
· Enabled Java aggressive heap mode for better memory use.

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.1:

April 12th, 2010

· Added new Atrribute Favoritism feature to choose the colour set to use.
· Added Dither Preview feature which displays previews with different dithering algorithms (and takes advantage of multi core processors).
· Updated BASIC slideshow program with new warning to stop tape.
· Main UI frame has a splash picture.
· Minor bug fixes to do with colour choice
· Memory usage increased for larger image conversion.

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.0.5:

October 19th, 2009

· Added Bayer Ordered Dither (2x1)
· Added Omega Ordered Dither (2x2)
· Minor code changes including better error messages
· Remembering directory locations in the file dialogs
· OpenGL hardware acceleration switch (disabled by default, source code only adjustment required to enable it due to instability and currently only rendering display improvements)
· Small UI changes

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.0.4:

October 19th, 2009

· Added Ordered Dithering and a substantial number of new modes
· Added options control for ordered dither intensity
· Refactored some old code giving a small performance increase for screen export and error diffusion dithering
· Replaced input folder option with file selector so individual files can be processed instead

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.0.3:

October 19th, 2009

· New options dialog
· New dithering options (including Low Error Atkinson)
· New jpeg image export option
· New pre-processing options such as brightness, contrast etc.
· New image scaling options (proportional scaling)
· Monochrome image mode with colour selection
· Small code refactor, improvements in speed on some operations
· speed is not a priority at the moment).

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.0.2:

October 19th, 2009

· Numerous new dithering algorithms added
· Small bug fixes

What's new in Image to ZX Spec 1.0.1:

October 19th, 2009

· Removed averaging converter (not very good).
· Added Half Colour Floyd-Steinberg converter.
· Improved Full Colour Floyd-Steinberg converter (pre-ramps contrast for a better result).
· Small bug fixes
· Small amount of refactoring (work still in progress)