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From: steve@dcdwest.UUCP (Steve Meloche)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga-->Mac graphics conv.
Summary: HAM -> GIF?   COOL!
Message-ID: <465@dcdwest.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 20:16:16 GMT
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In article <1493@eos.UUCP>, barry@eos.UUCP (Kenn Barry) writes:
> 
> 	Gee, am I the only Usenetter that still has a Compuserve
> account? Actually, the situation is better than that. There is a HAM to
> GIF converter called 'amgif', which I downloaded from Compuserve (it's
> in the 'PICS' forum). It works fine.

I don't know if you are the only one with a Compu$erve account, but I sure
don't.  THere have been a lot of discussions here on the main Amiga BBSes here
in San Diego about these converters and nobody has heard of such a beast.  We
do have a 256 color GIF viewer that uses HAM mode to display the picture, but
its palette selection is very poor.  Sometimes it works great and sometimes not.

> are there even any pictures *in* halfbright mode?

Yeah yeah!  I just got DIGIVIEW 3.0 and want my 64 color pics convertable to
GIF format!

> 	'amgif' doesn't have this problem. I just converted a 320x400 HAM
> picture to GIF, and then viewed it on my Amiga. It has the same aspect
> ratio as the original IFF picture.

GREAT!
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> AMGIF vn 0.5 - Amiga IFF to GIF converter
> 
> Converts Amiga IFF pictures to GIF.  Supports 320x200 & 320x400 in up to
> 32 colors or HAM mode, and 640x200 & 640x400 in up to 16 colors.  HAM mode
> pictures are reduced to 256 colors.
> [...]
> 
> 	Until this recent discussion, I'd assumed that this program, and
> the Amiga GIF viewer that displays GIF files with >32 colors in HAM
> mode, were widely available. Perhaps I was wrong. Should I consider
> posting these programs here?

Here, the binaries group, or EMAIL.  If I can get my hands on it I will
spread it around here locally.  256 color pics converted from digi-view will
be a better advertisement for the Amiga on the non-Amiga boards than the 16/32
color ones I am able to upload now
> 
> -  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry

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