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From: johnm@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: vga to ega conversion
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Date: 2 Sep 88 20:43:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!johnm    Sep  2 15:43:00 1988


You've misunderstood GIF.  GIF is COMPLETELY display independent.  The decoder
simply gets a file that has between 2 and 256 colors in it and information
about its size and then IT will decide how best to display it.

It is true that a lot of GIF pictures nowadays have the full 256 color palette
filled and thus they look MUCH better on a VGA but any good EGA decoder will
still display the file and just attempt to dither (or something) to make
the picture look better when it displays it.  I know FASTGIF does some dithering
when pictures with a large number of colors on the EGA and I'm sure there are
others too.

Hope that helped,
John Munsch