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From: RBYAML@ROHVM1.BITNET (Aengus Lawlor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Convert GIF -> BMP ??
Message-ID: <91056.084027RBYAML@ROHVM1.BITNET>
Date: 25 Feb 91 13:40:27 GMT
References: <1991Feb17.161516.9589@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Feb21.203637.13252@csusac.csus.edu>, cs060128@csusac.csus.edu
(H. Philip Chen) says:
>
>In article <1991Feb21.154925.9559@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>
>winstead@faraday.ECE.CMU.EDU
>(Charles Holden Winstead) writes:
>>Does anyone know of a shareware program that will convert GIF files to BMP
>>files for use as a windows background?
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Try gif2bmp.zip by Graham Welland.  You can find it at cica in the
>/pub/pc/win3/bmp directory or maybe at your local BBS.  The copy that I have
>is dated Sept 89 and it works super.  Gif2bmp will convert 16 colors gif to
>16 colors bmp, or 256 gif to 256 bmp.  Be cautious about this...  If your
>video driver does not support 256 colors in Windows, all the 256 colors
>bmp wallpaper/pictures will look funny.  If you find any wallpaper that
>looks like it has been through the washing machine, don't worry -- it's
>not a bug.  Select another video mode with 256 colors and the problem
>should go away.  Good luck.

If you want to use a 256 colour .GIF, and you only have a 16 colour driver for
Windows, GIF2BMP will give pretty icky results. WINGIF gives similiar results
at first, but offers a dithering option that produces a passable reproduction.
Load your GIF, dither it, and save as a bmp (RGB?)

Enjoy!
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RBYAML@ROHMHAAS.COM                    Aengus Lawlor
RBYAML@ROHVM1.BITNET                   (who used to be ALAWLOR@DIT.IE)