Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gryphon.cis.ohio-state.edu!meekins From: meekins@gryphon.cis.ohio-state.edu (Tim Meekins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: 3200 -> gif Message-ID: <118375@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 8 May 91 14:36:55 GMT References: <10239@plains.NoDak.edu> <15522@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science Lines: 38 In article <15522@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: > >In article <10239@plains.NoDak.edu> kolesar@plains.NoDak.edu (Joe Kolesar) writes: >>The author was supposed to incorporate a lot of new features into the >>program, and I heard he even put in an IFF->GS converter. Does anyone >>with a copy know what's new with SC 3.0 compared to SHRConvert v2.1? > > Uhh, I know that it's not faster in GIF conversions than old >versions.. Or at least it's not up to the speed of recent GIF >converters... You people wait until you see Lord High Giffer.. WOW! >(Comon, Todd.. comon! Hurryup! New beta release!) The main reason that GIF is not faster in SC 3.0 is becuase it doesn't exist. Jason left it out due to doubts about the patent/copyright/whatever on the GIF/LZW/whatever code. > > I e-mailed Jason Harper on CompuServe a while ago and told him >there were much faster GIF converters out now and he said he wasn't >interested in getting a faster GIF converter... > Of course not, he doesn't even include GIF. > Sure seems strange, when Todd's GIF converter when it was COMPLETELY >in C, it was faster than SHRConvert. (I believe completely in BASIC it was >faster too) Todd, please correct any misstatements on my part. Well, Give Jason some credit. He DID use APW C, which we all know doesn't produce the quickest code (but hey, it DOES work, unlike another C), and it also has a nice color mapping which can also take time. -- +---------------------------S-U-P-P-O-R-T-----------------------------------+ |/ Tim Meekins <<>> Snail Mail: <<>> Apple II \| |> meekins@cis.ohio-state.edu <<>> 8372 Morris Rd. <<>> Forever! <| |\ timm@pro-tcc.cts.com <<>> Hilliard, OH 43026 <<>> /|