Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!cs.dal.ca!ug.cs.dal.ca!dewolfe From: dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Anarchy for Peace) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: IFF? (more like semi-IFF) Message-ID: <1991Mar2.003936.27671@cs.dal.ca> Date: 2 Mar 91 00:39:36 GMT References: <4923@uniol.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.dal.ca (USENET News) Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: ug.cs.dal.ca In article <4923@uniol.UUCP> Marco.Eichelberg@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Marco Eichelberg) writes: >nv89-nun@alv.nada.kth.se (Nicklas Ungman) writes: > [stuff nuked] >3. As far as I know, there is no Amiga program that can handle more >than 6 bitplanes. There are, of course, programs for HAM and halfbrite. >Some video-digitizers use 24-bitplane-pictures and thus have software >to handle 24-bit IFF pictures. The problem is: There is no standard >for 24-bitplane-pics. This means that two programs writing 24-plane-pics >*may* save the bitplanes in opposite order. > Not any more guy, there is a 24 bit IFF standard put forth from Commodore last year. It's form name is called RGB8 (much like gif in that it stores 8 bit colour map for 24 bits). Also, there is a true 24 bit standard, but I forget what it is called... This is what The Art Department, Imagine and the Video Toaster save their stuff in. >Best Regards, > >Marco Eichelberg -- Colin DeWolfe dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca