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From: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 24bit to HAM
Message-ID: <1375@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 90 00:34:09 GMT
References: <1990May23.180902.22999@calgary.uucp> <1348@madnix.UUCP> <13373@etana.tut.fi> <9986@chaph.usc.edu>
Reply-To: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
Organization: ASDG Incorporated
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In article <9986@chaph.usc.edu> bli@castor.usc.edu (Binary Logics) writes:
>In article <13373@etana.tut.fi> mk59200@korppi.tut.fi (Kolkka Markku Olavi) writes:
>Amen!  Would someone at ASDG please post the format, to promote the
>spread of the standard? the last thing we need now is for everyone
>who writes a program to invent his own 'standard'...

I have posted this information before, and then it rapidly scrolls off of
everyone's systems. Carolyn was nice enough to post the spec this time, and
she has easier access to the text for posting purposes than I do, plus it's
more _official_ when it comes from her. :-)

The proper way to get the spec is to order the current IFF information from
Commodore, and the deep pixel specification is in there.
Perhaps Fred Fish will release an updated IFF disk in the near future, too --
you out there, Fred?!?

As to everyone having his/her own standard, we're far too late for that!

>Maybe we should create comp.sys.amiga.digest, for stuff like this? it
>would certainly be more worthwhile than comp.sys.amiga.games...

That's not such a bad idea. But at least the IFF docs being stored at any
archives (such as xanth) should certainly be updated to include the 24-bit
ILBM spec.

- Aaron

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Aaron Avery, ASDG Inc.         "A mime is a terrible thing to waste."
                                                             -- Robin Williams
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