Amiga
The Amiga includes a lovely facility known as datatypes, basically an
extension of normal shared libraries (or DLLs) to provide generic data handling
capabilities. With this facility, any datatypes-aware program--whether
viewer, web browser, or image editor--can be extended after the fact,
simply by adding the appropriate datatype for whatever new format comes along.
In the case of PNG, two datatypes are available: Cloanto's and Andreas
Kleinert's:
http://www.aminet.org/pub/aminet/util/dtype/PNG_dt.lha
http://www.aminet.org/pub/aminet/util/dtype/akPNG-dt.lha
Except where noted, all of the Amiga image viewers that follow require one of
these datatypes for PNG support. (Indeed, there are probably many other
datatypes-based viewers that are not listed here.)
- Image Engineer
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Version 3.41, Simon Edwards. Conversion capabilities.
Image Engineer uses the SuperView Library (see Cross-Platform Libraries) for its image
support instead of datatypes.
http://amigaworld.com/support/imageengineer/
- Multiview
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Amiga. Multiview was apparently a standard, datatypes-aware
viewer shipped as part of the Amiga operating system.
- PPShow
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Version 4.0, Nico François. Insofar as its last release
was in February 1994--more than a year before the PNG specification was
frozen--PPShow is a fine example of the power of Amiga datatypes.
http://www.aminet.org/pub/aminet/gfx/show/PPShow40.lha
- SViewII
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Version 8.10, Andreas Kleinert. Conversion capabilities.
Formerly known as SuperView, SViewII includes the SuperView Library
(discussed in Cross-Platform Libraries) for all image I/O, instead of
datatypes, despite the fact that Andreas wrote one of the available datatypes.
http://home.t-online.de/home/Andreas_Kleinert/sview.htm
- ViewDT
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Cloanto. ViewDT is a demo viewer included with Cloanto's PNG
datatype; source code is included. Cloanto also once had a viewer called
Personal View, but it no longer seems to exist.
http://www.aminet.org/pub/aminet/util/dtype/PNG_dt.lha
- ViewTEK
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Version 2.1, Thomas Krehbiel.
http://www.aminet.org/pub/aminet/gfx/show/ViewTEK21.lha
- Visage
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Version 39.21, Magnus Holmgren. Visage has had native PNG
support since version 39.12.
http://www.algonet.se/~lear/visage.html
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