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From: milano@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Milano)
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Subject: Re: Coverting Images between Amiga & PC's?  possible?
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Date: 29 Nov 90 12:36:48 GMT
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In article <36326@cup.portal.com> R_Michael_Medwid@cup.portal.com writes:
>yes it is possible.  I was recently given a demo of a projection video system
>which I am now using to project VGA output from a Compaq SLT.  When the
>folks demo'd their stuff they brought a bunch of VGA compatible pictures.
>I was surprised when I saw them..they were all ports of classic Amiga
>pictures by Jim Sachs..e.g. his Red porsche, the Ninja motor cycle..
>anyhow they were all displayed in a slide show.  I asked them how they
>got the pictures but they had no idea.  Keep on the trail..I am certain
>there's a utility out there to do this.  Check the "Fred Fish" collection
>of public domain utilities.  From the early days ('86?) there was a converter
>for going from mac format to amy and vice-versa.  I bet there's one to
>go to pc format by this time.  Good luck@

You can get a utility for just such a purpose by anonymous ftp from
simtel20.army.mil. It is called gif2iff and consists of a number of
utilities that accomplish the conversion in either direction. It also
handles iff ham type files. There is also a commercial product called
Hijaak (I forget the manufacturer but can locate it if you want) that
handles file conversion between many different types of raster and vector
graphics file types, including iff. It does not handle ham mode though.
I use both and find the public domain version, gif2iff, to be much more
useful. BTW - gif2iff runs on the amiga, while Hijaak is pc compatible.
Give a yell if you have trouble locating these products, or need more
info. - joel