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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <4908.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 28 Jun 91 08:03:07 GMT
References: <85@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun22.045446.2732@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> 
 <102@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun24.092659.28842@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> 
 <119@ryptyde.UUCP> <4833.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991Jun27.053909.23571@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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Quoted from <1991Jun27.053909.23571@neon.Stanford.EDU> by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):
> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:

> >    Some files have an extra piece of junk on the front, while others

>   You're talking about MacPaint format pictures (I remember the same .MAC
> files on the local boards), which are simply B&W bitmaps with limited

    Yeah, though there seems to be a color version too. These are the ones
    that get uploaded to boards non-Mac machines access too, so it makes
    them look like the standard the Mac presents to the rest of the
    world.

    The IFF format dates back to '85, just a year after these .MACs. It
    is still the standard format, since it can handle extensions for
    24-bit, etc.

> Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
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