Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!olivea!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!taco!hobbes!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: IFF? (more like semi-IFF) Message-ID: <1991Mar2.011532.105@ncsu.edu> Date: 2 Mar 91 01:15:32 GMT References: Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 15 nv89-nun@alv.nada.kth.se (Nicklas Ungman) writes: >I've got a copy of Intro to Amiga IFF ILBM Files and Amiga Viewmodes >and it says that "if the picture is 6 planes deep and has no CAMG chunk, >it is probably HAM". Is this really correct? I believe what happened is that the "half-brite" 6-plane mode came along later... early Amigas didn't have it. So ILBM usage was originally very machine-dependent in that respect: it was automatically assumed that 6 planes meant HAM mode on Amigas. CAMG was a way of correcting this problem, but obviously some people missed getting "the word" in time. regards - kevin