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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
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Subject: Re: Graphics on the STE - v. generally speaking...
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Date: 3 Apr 91 05:06:00 GMT
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In article <1245@exua.exeter.ac.uk> SAMcinty@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Scott McIntyre) writes:
>
>	Is the usual method of de-giffing a colour (heck, even mono) picture
>onto an ST merely the clumping of black and white dots, at a horrendous
>resolution?  I know that a lot of effort went into writing these programmes
>out there, but it seems amazing to me that on the VGA system (yes, I know
>it has better graphics) it can look so amazing, and on my ST it looks like
>someone sneezed!  Am I doing something wrong?  I've been using ViewPic which
>is very nice for loading gif images, and works in mono or coulour (but looks
>bad either way...the colours are all off), but the gray images still look
>like nothing more than clever optical illusions...

Get a copy of GIFFER for the ST for converting GIF files to the ST with a 
monochrome monitor.  It has 4 levels of dithering.  GIFFER won't let you save
the files into a PI3 pic, so you'll need a screen capture program, SNAP30
works well (I think it's SNAP30).  Both programs are on atari.archive.  


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