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From: daniel@pkmab.se (Daniel Deimert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IMG
Message-ID: <2059@pkmab.se>
Date: 15 Oct 89 11:09:35 GMT
References: <8910120726.AA21587@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: daniel@pkmab.se (Daniel Deimert)
Organization: \"Orebro's Tech. College, Sweden
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In article <8910120726.AA21587@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> MEGGIN@vm.epas.utoronto.CA (David Megginson) writes:
>IMG is, was, and always will be the standard GEM image format.  NEO, P?3,
>etc. were invented by programmers too lazy to try to use the IMG standard.

Too lazy -- or simply to demanding. The .IMG-format is too complex,
to strange, requires to much effort to use.  At least that's my opinion.

>Yes, IMG is supposed to support colour too.

Hey,  how do you know the colors?  As far as I know, there are no
way of specifying the palette data.   Only the number of bitplanes.
Am I wrong?

Regards,
Daniel
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