cci8j@harlequin.cs.Virginia.EDU (Carmen C. Iannacone) (09/13/90)
Hello everyone, I'm using a standalone DOS exe file called gif2bmp.exe. It claims to convert GIFs to BMP files, but everything I convert shows up as bizarre mutilations of the original. "Smiling Faces" turn into "Beelzebub on Holiday." Even the Mona Lisa corrupts... I noticed the same effect when I went from GIF -> PCX (via Hijaak) and then from PCX -> BMP via Windows Paint. Should I expect to see reliable renderings of 256 color gifs in my lifetime (and I'm pretty young, if I do say so myself...)? Also, if you've read this far and are a user of PC Paintbrush as bundled with the 400 dpi MS Mouse, can you explain why I FRIEZE.EXE is returning "Can't init virtual memory"? The setup pgm is pretty pathetic, so if you are running PC Paintbrush on a 382 w/4 MB ram, could you send me your PAINT.BAT file, and any horror stories you've encountered using it under windows 3.0. Thanks for everything, I had a great time. The food was delicious. Carmen (cci8j@virginia.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Carmen Iannacone Email: cci8j@Virginia.EDU ._o Department of Computer Science 304 14th Street N.W. Apt. 9A |> University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 4
jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) (09/14/90)
In a recent article Carmen C. Iannacone writes: > Also, if you've read this far and are a user of PC Paintbrush as >bundled with the 400 dpi MS Mouse, can you explain why I FRIEZE.EXE is >returning "Can't init virtual memory"? I get that message if I try to start PC Paintbrush with insufficient main memory (i.e., the stuff below the 640K line). I usually have to reboot to drop out memory hogs like MSCDEX, run paintbrush, then reboot again. Has anyone (Z-Soft, are you listening?) figured a way to make pbrush run without frieze? Joe Morris
d89os@efd.lth.se (Ola Sigurdson) (09/17/90)
In article <1990Sep12.211223.24944@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, cci8j@harlequin.cs.Virginia.EDU (Carmen C. Iannacone) writes: > I'm using a standalone DOS exe file called gif2bmp.exe. It claims > to convert GIFs to BMP files, but everything I convert shows up as bizarre > mutilations of the original. "Smiling Faces" turn into "Beelzebub on > Holiday." Even the Mona Lisa corrupts... > > I noticed the same effect when I went from GIF -> PCX (via Hijaak) > and then from PCX -> BMP via Windows Paint. > > Should I expect to see reliable renderings of 256 color gifs in my > lifetime (and I'm pretty young, if I do say so myself...)? The answer is no -- if you're using a standard VGA display. The problem is that Windows uses a fixed colour palette which doesn't match the palette in your GIF images. The only reliable solution is to get a display (and matching driver) with a huge number of colours (say 256000 or 16M) and import the image to Windows. (Mr) Ola Sigurdson Internet: d89os@efd.lth.se