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From: dorner@telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: GIF to SPC convertors
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In article <1991Apr9.134525.24039@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, lsmichae@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Lars Michael) writes:
> D.M.Johnson@newcastle.ac.uk (Dave Johnson) writes:
> 
>>Hi, Having been sent some gif pictures, I decided to view them on my ST.
> 
>>I looked around the PD site and found a few viewers, and also GIFSPC and
>>SPLINDEX.
> 
>>When the gifs were viewed using FASTGIF the pictures came out ok (In 16
>>colours) but I decided I would like to see them in full colour glory and so
>>feed them through GIFSPC and viewed the result on SPLINDEX - The result was a
>>completely messed up picture. Could be the convertor me tinks and so tried
>>BGIF. The resulting SPU picture was better but still not perfect as it was
>>still corrupt in places, (odd lines missing etc)
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Perhaps the problem isn't the converter, but the slide show - program.
Spectrum slide shows are very tricky, most of them run only with 50 Hz or 60 Hz
monitors (that was an exclusive or!). I got a similar problem with GIFSPC and
SPSLIDEX, which was written for 60 Hz. The code in 50 Hz slide shows needs an
additional 'NOP'.

Thomas