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From: arc@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Pictures on the ST (pics on Amiga better)
Message-ID: <716.268dbc2b@desire.wright.edu>
Date: 1 Jul 90 14:02:35 GMT
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In article <2701@mrsvr.UUCP>, krieg@jupiter.uucp (Andrew Krieg) writes:
> I recently saw some IFF pictures on my friend's Amiga and was greatly
> impressed.  They made most of the Spectrum pictures I've seen look like water
> colors.  Is there a better graphics format than Spectrum for the ST?  Does
> the Amiga 2000 have a higher resolution than the 520 ST?  Is this a result of
> IFF displaying more colors or something?
> 
> I also have some GIF pictures I've been trying to view on my ST.  I haven't
> had much luck with PD GIF viewers, so I used a GIF to Spectrum conversion
> program instead.  Some of these GIF files were 100-200K, but the Spectrum
> pictures produced by the coverter were always around 51K.  Needless to say,
> the resolution was horrible!  Is this a fault of the conversion program?
> 
> Is there anyway to create/view high resolution color pictures on the ST that
> approach GIF and IFF?  I've been very disappointed with what I've seen so
> far.
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  The IFF pictures you saw were in a format also called HAM.  In which the
Amiga (ANY MODEL) can display all 4096 colors in a max. res. of 384x480 without
doing any weird stuff like Spectrum does.  Also, HAM stands for
Hold-And-Modify.  


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