CDisplay Installation File
While installing software that my wife uses on a new PC, I discovered
that the developer of
CDisplay, David Ayton, died in 2003 and the program is no longer
maintained. The application allows one to display
comic book
archive files, which are files with an extension of .cbr, cbz, .cbt,
or .cba — those files are renamed
RAR,
ZIP,
TAR, or
ACE
files. Since the website where I obtained the software almost two decades
ago, www.cdisplay.me, no longer exists, I've placed a Zip file
containing the installation program on this website at
CDisplay 1.8.1 so
that others who might need a copy of the software can access it.
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CDisplay Comic Reader
A family member with a fairly extensive comic collection recently discovered
files with a .cbr extension, which purportedly contained comics in
an electronic format. After a little investigation I found that
the CBR extension was listed on the
File Extension Source as being associated with CDisplay RAR archived comic
book files (see
http://www.filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=CBR).
The CDisplay
program, which can be used to read these files, has a webpage
at
http://www.geocities.com/davidayton/CDisplay. The program
reads files that contain collections of comic book pages in JPEG,
PNG, and static GIF formats. It can read images stored in zip,
rar, ace, or tar archives without needing to extract the image
files from the archive file first. You can use the arrow keys
on your keyboard or the space bar to view the pages of the comic
sequentially.
The software is free and can be downloaded from
http://cdisplay.techknight.com/setup.zip via a link from
the
developer's website. The author provides the following files
from the
http://cdisplay.techknight.com/ website:
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CDisplay Comic Reader
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CDisplay Comic Reader with Subtitles
Version which can be used for subtitles with the idea that translations
for other languages can be provided. This version is a work in progress,
so shouldn't be presumed to be bug free.
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Example Comic Pages
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CDisplay Debug Kit
Debugging tool that allows the capture of CDisplay diagnostic information
which can be sent to the CDisplay author to assist in the resolution of
any problems encountered with the software. This tool doesn't work on
Windows 95, 98, nor ME, only on later versions of Microsoft Windows operating
systems.
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