
CompuPic was good. ViewSafe was great. CompuPic DCM 4.0 comes out. Notice
the pattern?
CompuPic DCM 4.0 is Photodex's newest multimedia war machine. And trust me, this one is a
B-2 Stealth Bomber which makes the competition look like 30 year old Mig 17's. If you
don't know modern military aviation that well, CompuPic DCM is one of the best graphics
viewing, conversion, and editing program now available.
Of course *sigh* no new program is without its share of minor bugs. I searched, played,
and all out begged for bugs and only found two on this entire program. When I open a
graphic in Windows Explorer, it runs CPIC and displays the graphic, but when I exit, the
program performs an "illegal operation" (WIN 95) and terminates. This is a minor
bug seeing how most of the graphics work should be done within CompuPic 4.0's extensive
and powerful file manager program. Within it you can view, convert and edit graphics. You
can also watch movies in CompuPic DCM 4.0, but that's where the 2nd bug comes in. When I
run a movie, it runs correctly, but it will not exit the movie, and if I run a second
movie, the program terminates. But its a new program and I'm sure that they'll iron
out the bugs.
Graphics viewing (while in the actual program) is superior to any other program. The only
competition I see is in ACDSee, which views graphics without any bugs. GIF animation is
also far superior when compared to any other graphics program, including ACDSee. Another
interesting fact is that GIF animation and overall quality beats every single pre-1998/99
Microsoft program released with the exception of MS Front Page which is one of the few MS
programs that view Ani-GIFS.
Overall, Photodex has done it again and CompuPic DCM 4.0 should become one of the most
popular graphics programs within a few months.