Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:12740 comp.sources.wanted:15540 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:7042 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!banana.cis.ohio-state.edu!krouse-p From: krouse-p@banana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Pierce Krouse) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Followup to GIF editor Summary: I think Chad made a mistake somewhere Keywords: GIF, Editor, Graphics Message-ID: <89704@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 2 Mar 91 00:09:39 GMT References: <6061@uafhp.uark.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Pierce Krouse Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Distribution: usa Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 23 In article <6061@uafhp.uark.edu> cab3@engr.uark.edu (Chad A. Bersche) writes: >Vgacad: This was the graphic environment I was looking for, but > unfortunately, it wouldn't support the large size or 256 colors > during editing. It can handle 128 colors maximum. I didn't > bother looking at it further since it wouldn't work for what > I needed. > Emails on this subject reveal that Chad thinks of this as an opinion, and that it deserves no further comment, but I disagree. The information above is simply incorrect. VGAcad handles 256-color GIFs with ease. As of version 1.6 (and it's up to 2.3 now, I believe) it handles large GIFs as well. I'm no fan of the interface it supports, but the program has behaved for me going on two years, now, and I've never experienced any problem whatsoever with editing GIF files with this package. I'm not about to claim it's bug-free (what is?), but it performs much better than this post would have you believe. I have edited 600x900 256-color GIFs with VGAcad without any problems. You do need to have some free disk space available for memory swapping. My only beef with VGAcad is that you can only edit 320x200 sections at any one time, but this was a limitation of version 1.6. Newer versions may have moved away from this limitation.