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From: seb3@GTE.COM (Steve Belczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GIF format ?
Summary: Check out GIFSPC and BGIF
Message-ID: <10084@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 90 14:37:23 GMT
References: <2499@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> <647@fsucs.UUCP>
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham MA
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In article <647@fsucs.UUCP> boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes:
>All the PD programs I have seen use only 16 colors, which is what the ST was
>designed to display in low rez (16 on the screen at one time).  Hope that 
>helps!

My program, GIFSPC, and BGIF (sorry, forgot the author) will both use up
to 512 colors when converting from GIF to Spectrum.  From what I can
tell, it looks like BGIF only uses 16 colors per scan line, whereas
GIFSPC will use all 48 allowed if it can.  (Anyone know for sure about
that?)

If you can't get GIFSPC through anonymous FTP, I'd be happy to Email it
to you.

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