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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: GIF viewing again and again
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Date: 23 Aug 90 12:17:25 GMT
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In article <5338@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>, djb1@ukc.ac.uk (David Beckett) writes:
> I have just discovered the world of the GIF. The graphic standard that allows
> you to send pictures all over the world. I thought, there must be a decent
> Amiga program that converts from it. And yes, there were several so I tried
> them and they failed/died/ran out of memory. I want to convert large/small
> colour and b/w pictures into ILBM/HAM form. As an example, I tried converting
> an 1152x9?? bw standard picture. Some of the programs took 30 minutes, some
> worked fast, but nearly all of them produced a tiny 640x400 picture - yuk.
> Have they never heard of overscan? I tried a smaller color picture and boom -
> out of memory.
> 
> 	Does anyone have a decent GIF --> ILBM/HAM converted that WORKS
> 	and preferably does the following:
> 
> 	* Converts to overscan pictures and ALLOWS YOU TO SAVE THEM!
> 
> 	* Converts to HAM pictures, when there are too many colours
> 
> 	* WORKS!
> 
> Programs that I have tried and gave up on are:
> 
> 	HAMGIF
> 	GIFTOIFF
> 	GIF2IFF
> 	GIFMachine
> 	GIFFY
> 	VirtGIF		(Best of the lot but slow and no save)
> 
> Any help would be *most* welcome
> 
> Dave
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> David Beckett                                           | djb1@ukc.ac.uk
> Computing Lab., University of Kent, Canterbury,Kent,UK  | ..!mcsun!ukc!djb1

  The BEST GIF converter that I have seen yet (for HAM, etc.) is ShamSharp
1.6...  Very awsome...