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From: jcfst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C. Fossum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA ==> IBM ?
Message-ID: <21069@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 89 00:40:50 GMT
References: <5501@nigel.udel.EDU>
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Computing & Information Services
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In article <5501@nigel.udel.EDU>, kianusch%unicom.uucp@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
> Hi,
> 
>         I was wondering if the is a way to tranfer AMIGA hir-res pictures
>         onto an IBM, and display them on the IBM...
> 
>         The Graphics I'm using are from DPainIII, and PhontonPaintII,
>         I think the formats are HAM, and IFF... (I think !!!).
> 
>         Are there any PD, or comercial programs for that purpose?
> 
     I do mine on a commercial program called D2D which transfers all
Amiga files to an IBM 3 1/2. I found the best way to convert pictures
is to take your 32 color Amiga IFF pictures, load them into DigiView,
Load an IBM Palette, menu into palette, set the number of colors to 16,
freeze the palette, then display (and play around with the color control
registers...i.e. brightness,contrast...). Save the finished picture as
a sixteen color, then D2D the files over. IBM recognizes IFF. As far as
HAM pictures go, there is a program out there called HAM2IFF which will
convert your pictures into IFF, which is IBM readable. I don't know the
ftp site where it is located & I don't think it's fish. So any help to
this response would help.

-Steve