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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: SuperConvert/SHRCONVERT (was:Re: Converting 320 to 640 mode)
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Date: 26 Jan 91 07:19:49 GMT
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In article <1991Jan25.145637.13116@infonode.ingr.com> gentrys@infonode.ingr.com (Scott Gentry) writes:
>Someone wanted to know how to convert 320 mode graphics to 640 mode graphics.
>Here are three programs that do a good job and are recommended.
>
>2. SuperConvert - not released, yet.  Due by the end of this month.  Much 
>improved version of SHRConvert.  Has all SHRConverts features plus a lot more.

	While this has nothing to do with converting 320 to 640 mode,
it seems like it was worthy of asking/saying...

	According to the last 'release' and what people have said on here, it
will not have GIF conversion. (Supposedly 2.7 was only for AppleFest last 
year, but it got out... AppleFest? Don't you mean PirateFest? Heh.. Remember 
the games a few years ago that had the AppleFest logo then crossed out the 
Apple and wrote in "cursive" Pirate over it??)

	I think this is because the GIF standard is copyrighted by 
CompuServe and they were thinking about charging people to use it or
somesuch.. I forget, but it was some legal hassle with CompuServe.

	Not that I really will -miss- it having GIF conversion, unless
Jason got pissed at Jonah Stitch and _the_Lord_High_Giffer_dude, and wanted
to show them up and make an EVEN BETTER/STRONGER/FASTER GIF converter..
(Why am I suddenly reminded of the Six Million Dollar Man?? heh heh)
Not likely, as it seems people were DOUBLING SHRConvert (2.1?)'s speed
with purportedly "simple" basic/machine language hacks.. Meaning that 
if he didn't care to speed up his original algorithm, it doesn't seem
like he'd want to speed it up now.

	Not that I think that speeding up algorithms is EASY, it just
seems that some great improvements to THIS algorithm were easy.
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