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From: jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: windows background
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Date: 27 Feb 91 13:44:13 GMT
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In article <357@einstein.eds.com> tobey@einstein.eds.com (Christopher Tobey) writes:
|>Hello everyone
|>
|>I was wondering if anyone knows of an ftp site that would have
|>a program which would allow me to display graphic images in the
|>background of windows other than .bmp?  

There is a shareware program called GIFVIEW that will convert between GIF,
BMP, and RLE files.  Get a .GIF that you want and convert it to .BMP and
you are set.  I think it is stored somewhere as WINGIF.ZIP.

|>Another nice feature
|>would be to have it break microsoft's 16 color barrier.  Specific-
|>ally I was thinking of displaying gif images in the background.
|>I have a gif2bmp program; however it doesn't seem to keep the same
|>color palette.  In fact I think it converts everything to a 16 color
|>palette.

You need a 256 color driver for Windows.  If you have a Video-7, Tseng
Labs, or PAradise card then you shouldn't have a problem finding drivers.
I run my Paradise in 640x400x256 (slow as hell, though).

Brian