Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!crocus!rtczegledi
From: rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: gif files
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Date: 15 Aug 89 17:32:07 GMT
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>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? 

Could you post VIRTGIF to the binaries?  I'm sure we all could use such
a gif viewer.  

Also, could someone give me information on how the ATARI-ST spectrum
pictures work?  I have a file (yes I do!) that describes the FORMAT of the
spectrum file (and weird it is), but it doesn't clue me in to how the 3
palettes for each scan line are indexed by the 4 bitplane image.

Oh, and if somebody out there knows where I can get info for the Digiview
IP files, I'd be more than extatic.  Are they just IFF's with plenty
bitplanes?

With this information in my head that you can give me I'll get to writing
a spectrum and gif to IP format converter.  Then you can go to Newtek's
Transfer 24 software and see the GIF as best as the computer can reasonably
achieve.