Here it is: The first OS/2 PM Bitmap viewer that shows the REAL colors!

imShow - An OS/2 2.0 application to display pictures in the formats:
  BMP  (OS/2 1.1, Windows 3 and OS/2 2.0 formats)
  GIF  (only plain, error-free, non-interlaced GIF87)
  im   (an image file format developed at the University of Zrich)

The "new" thing on this picture viewer is the support of the OS/2 2.0
palette manager. This means, you can see your pictures with their
actual colors!

Requirements:
 -  OS/2 2.0 with service pack installed (to get the palette manager).
 -  A display adapter and device driver which supports 256 colors and the
    palette manager (I tested it on the IBM XGA).

Drawbacks:
 -  There is no help (well, there are that few menu options, I don't
    think one will miss it).
 -  The GIF reader is very slow and absolutely not robust. The
    application simply quits without an error message if something is
    not ok with the GIF file.
 -  There is a bug in PM: If something small covers the picture (like
    if you drag an icon over it), then the picture gets incorrectly
    redrawn. To force a redraw, simply display the "about" dialog box.
 -  The vertical scroll bar works "the other way around", I like it
    better this way (so this is not a bug but a feature...).

I am still hoping that such excellent packages as WINGIF or CVIEW
get ported to OS/2, so I don't think I will invest a lot of time
into my little application in the future. So this may well be the
first and the last release...
The version number is 2.0, since the very first version is three
years old (working under OS/2 1.1), but 2.0 is the first release
that makes it outside of the university.

Copyrights:
  Application: Martin Erzberger, University of Zrich, 1989/92
  im Library:  Jrg Schaufelberger, Urs Meyer, University of
                Zrich, 1989/90
  GIF decoder: David Koblas, 1989

My current address: erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch
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