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From: gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos)
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Subject: Re: 8-bit: PPM to Mode 2 converter, nearly!
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Date: 19 Jan 91 23:04:27 GMT
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kortink@utrcu1.UUCP (Kortink John) writes:

>There is no 'standard' for BBC screen files. It is best to convert BBC
>screens to Archimedes sprite, or Clear file. Then it can be converted
>to GIF/TIFF. The problem with good old Beeb's screens is that you cannot
>deduct the resolution/mode from the data itself (a 20K file could be
>mode 0, mode 1 or mode 2).

There were these two programs "LdPic" and "SvPic". They also compressed the
data. I should still have LdPic somewhere.
Could be an idea to incorporate them into your program. Or then, maybe not.

-					Gerben
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