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From: amgreene@athena.mit.edu (Andrew Marc Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: RGB-->IFF
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Date: 4 Mar 91 16:20:15 GMT
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In article <3Xa0X4w163w@graphics.rent.com>, bobl@graphics.rent.com (Bob Lindabury) writes:

|> Huh?  Not good enough??  C'mon..splerge and get another meg or two so
|> you can "easily" convert your images.  I say it IS good enough.
|> What's not good enough is the amount of memory you have in your
|> machine.  Why is it everyone expects 24-bit image manipulation and
|> software to run under the same curcumstances as typical Amiga mode
|> images?

I don't expect 24-bit image manipulation software to run comfortably
in my 5 Megs.  But sometimes I don't need 24 bits; one thing I assumed
I'd be able to do with the Toaster was write my own software to use
the Toaster hardware but do my image processing in B/W (look ma, 8
bits!) or even to make 100x100 HAM bitmaps.  Why is it that some people
think the Toaster always needs to be used for pseudo-professional
graphics that require a fully loaded machine?

|> Granted, I think they should have allowed a straight 24-bit IFF save
|> right from the switcher if you want it.  Or, better yet, if all we
|> wanted to do was some frame stores, we should have a program that
|> doesn't require loading up the whole switcher to do that.

Isn't that what I said in the first place?

*sigh*  I really don't want to start a flame war on comp.sys.amiga. 
But I still need a way to get at those frame grabs.

- Andrew Greene