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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 25 Jun 91 18:11:01 GMT
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In article <25668@well.sf.ca.us> farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes:

>Yeah, so?  You have to go through hoops to do so.  I did the Amiga version
>of Crystal Quest, and one of the biggest pains in the butt of the entire
>conversion was pulling the data out of the resources and converting it
>into some usable format on the Ami.  Just how many machines, pray tell,
>can handle PICT resources directly?

How did you go about converting the PICTs?  I just opened a PICT out of the
game Diamonds (I don't have Crystal Quest) with ResEdit, copy-and-pasted it 
into PixelPaint Pro.  To speed things up I'd use CanOpener to yank all the
PICTs out of Crystal Quest and then use something to convert the PICT files 
to GIF, color TIFF or whatever.

I think the Sun I'm logged into can read PICT files and produce a number of
other formats from them, and if I remember correctly, the Hijak (sp?) software
can convert from PICTs on the PC.  (Most of this is hypothetical.  I would
send the file to the Amiga as an 8 bit GIF probably and let the Amiga deal
with getting it into the target format.)