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From: eric@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Hey, hey, we're the Monkeys, con't (actually picture formats)
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 18:02:48 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 18:02:48 1985
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Hi,

 The picture format used by both Graphicraft and Electronic Arts is 
called 'IFF' format. It is an encoding scheme developed by ECA for
compacting pictures. The scheme allows you to store about 30 320x200
32 color screens on one disk (I believe). The format has been adopted
by Commodore as a standard, and all developers will be receiving the
full spec for the scheme with the 1.1 release (which should be coming
up soon).

 As far as the .pic files you have from V27 - unfortunately, there seems
to have been a slight change in the .pic file format from V27 to 1.0
Graphicraft under V27 reads the old files fine, but i don't believe the
beta Graphicraft for 1.0 will read V27 files. The ballet pictures you
have are just a slide show of still pictures (some quite nice). The actual
animated sequence was done using an animation editor (perhaps an early 
MovieCraft?). Most all of the still lo res pictures you have seen were
done with Graphicraft. Electronic Arts is doing their own stuff with
Deluxe Paint - which can read Graphicraft files, and which can also
edit in 640x200 and 640x400 resolution.

I too would like to see more source code. I haven't had much time to
program on my Amiga lately, but I am stumped on a number of things
especially due to the lack of consistency in the ROM Kernal manual
(mostly missing fragments...)

Eric
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