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PolyView 1.3b - Unreleased ANSI viewer

This is the Turbo Pascal 7 source to PolyView, an unreleased (as far as I recall) MS-DOS ANSI/RIP viewer that I wrote for the Melbourne, Australia-based polyester art group, which I was a member of briefly. I can't find any releases that included this viewer, and the 1998/99 polyester releases include a different Polyview which was written by Grant Passmore, aka skaboy / ACiD Productions, apparently as a favor/under contract to rippa, the founder of polyester.

I had somehow been hooked up with rippa and asked to build the viewer and join polyester. I don't recall why my version was never used though, and I'm not listed as a member of polyester in any releases as far as I can tell, so maybe there was a falling out. polyester seem to have stopped releasing art packs around 1999 anyway.

There is a prebuilt binary in the BIN directory.

Building

Use COMPILE.BAT to compile the sources. The batch file expects TP to be installed in:

c:\dev\dos\tp

Adjust this in COMPILE.BAT as appropriate. The code will build into the BIN subdirectory.

The OBJ directory contains various precompiled files that are linked in (fonts, Turbo Pascal's EGA/VGA driver, the ANSI screen which was probably saved to OBJ from TheDraw).

Unfortunately I couldn't find the source for P_SAUCE.TPU. I'm unsure why it's missing. This is the unit that deals with reading the SAUCE information from a file.

I've included CL-STWR1.ANS, an ANSI my good friend Clef made for my BBS (which I never ended up actually running). Just so you have something to test it with!