es2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Stuyvesant) (12/10/88)
Greetings, Atarians...
I am looking for a couple of things having to do with conversion of
GIF format pictures to Spectrum pics, and about GIF in general...
Does anyone out there have a decent GIF -> Spectrum converter? By
decent, I mean a converter that does at least as well as Spectrum converts
IFF to Spectrum.
How about C source code (or just about anything, for that matter) to
load GIF pictures into a blittable array in memory?
Thirdly, does anyone have a GIF viewer that is faster, better, and/or
better-featured than GIFSHOW, by Zaphodyne?
Fourth, if none of these exist, would anyone else out there be
interested in one? (i.e. is there any interest in my writing one?)
Thanks in advance...
Eric Stuyvesant
es2a+@andrew.cmu.edu
I'll not be at this arpa node from Dec. 15 to ~ Jan. 15.greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman) (12/13/88)
In article <4Xc7rgh98k-043BlIJ@andrew.cmu.edu> es2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Stuyvesant) writes: > > Does anyone out there have a decent GIF -> Spectrum converter? By >decent, I mean a converter that does at least as well as Spectrum converts >IFF to Spectrum. Digispec (a commercial product from Trio Engineering and available from your local dealer) can read GIF files, and display them (and save them) as Spectrum files. I now use it to convert all of my GIF files to Spectrum, since they display so much better this way. Its main purpose is to convert Computereyes video digitizer data to Spectrum format, however, so if you don't have Computereyes you may not want to pay for this feature. Or you may want to get Computereyes. > How about C source code (or just about anything, for that matter) to >load GIF pictures into a blittable array in memory? I don't have anything, but of course this is feasible. If you can display it, you can blit it (essentially). > Thirdly, does anyone have a GIF viewer that is faster, better, and/or >better-featured than GIFSHOW, by Zaphodyne? GIFSHOW is what I have. While it works reasonably well, it has bugs (don't try to use it if GDOS is installed, for example!) and limitations (I never really saw some of my GIF pictures until I used Digispec to display them). Of course some of the limitations are directly related to displaying 256-color pictures with a 16-color palette. Greg Wageman ARPA: greg%sentry@spar.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: ...!decwrl!spar!sentry!greg ------------------ Opinions expressed herein are solely the responsibility of the author.