Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!medsys!wendell
From: wendell@medsys.UUCP (bbs amiga user)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: gif files
Message-ID: <799@medsys.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 89 23:00:25 GMT
References: <165@crash.cts.com> <[24e387c0:1033.1]un.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Organization: Med-Systems, Kingsport, TN
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tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes:

>>HAMGIF will display an IBM GIF picture, including 256-color VGA pictures. 
>>Converting a VGA picture to the .SHAM format and viewing it with ShamView will

>>give you much sharper HAM results.

>Actually , I have found that the HAMGIF I use is actually pretty braindead
>about the pallett it uses. i have several VERY GOOD VGA pictures, and the
>HAMGIF program manages to munge them so they look like 16 colors (all
>fleshtone the same ect) -- if someone could email me that latest version it
>will save me the trouble of writing one.

>Also , can any >SHAM do 320x400???

Agreed, HAMGIF does a GREAT job of messing up the pallette on otherwise good
GIF files. I can't speak for SHAMVIEW (just got it, haven't tried it out), but
I also just got VIRTGIF 1.0 (Virtual Gif Viewer), and it is supposed to a good
job of showing 256 color gifs, and it will show gifs upto 1024 x 768? on a 
320 x 400 screen with scrolling similar to SuperView does for IFFs.

Now, does anybody have anything like AMGIF that will convert HAM pics to 256
color gifs with bigger resolutions that AMGIF can handle?