ST131BAP@ST1.VUW.AC.NZ (06/06/90)
As an Archimedes owner I have a little problem that I would like some
help on. I am working on an Atari Screen Convertor that will take Atari
bitplanes and display them on the Archimedes computer (Obvious huh?).
The difficulty I have is with Degas Compressed Pictures. I have noted
that if the first byte has its top bit set (ie a value of &80 or above)
then the file is compressed. What I need to know is how are the bit
planes packed? It does not appear to be run length encoding as that
seems to produce too many pixels.... Any help on this would be
greatly appreciated as well as any other screen formatts that you
know of (I am trying to make this a useful converter!) I can already
convert Neochrome and uncompressed Degas pictures.
Please reply via email to ST131BAP@vuwst2.vuw.ac.nz. Do not post
as I do not think this will be of much interest to regular readers
and I have problems keeping up with this news group.
Thanks in advance,
Philip Banks.
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