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From: eahsnsr@nmt.edu (Eric A. Hobbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: GIF (Was: Something about STE's)
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.034206.15099@nmt.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 91 03:42:06 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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...in regards to loss of detail when displaying GIFS larger
   than 320 x 200 :

Why not use the QuickGIF viewers available at atari.archive? There
are two viewers (B&W and Color). They are both very small .TTP
files, they're faster than other viewers I have seen, and you don't
lose much, if any, picture detail. They both create a virtual screen
that you can scroll around. They are still limited to 16 colors. To
get around the 8 greyscale handicap, the B&W viewer allows you to select
from one of 6 palettes that introduce the 8 shades of another color on 
top of the 8 pure grey shades. While this introduces a false color into
the picture, the results are usually very good.


Just my $0.025 cents worth.


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Eric A. HOBBS!
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