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From: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IIgs resolution and colors
Message-ID: <1153@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 90 17:04:45 GMT
References: <2488@ttardis.UUCP> <4300@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI
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In article <4300@mace.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>In article <2488@ttardis.UUCP> rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson) writes:
>> [Deleted his comments about the current gs graphic capabilities]
> [Deleted his comments about having to fiddle with stuff, wasting CPU time,
>  as Todd Whitesel already responded]
>No, it isn't.  I've seen 3200 color viewers (I wonder, were there
>really 3200 colors?) that looked DAMN good.  But all they could do was
>just the demo.  Ya couldn't have a screen that looked like that and be
>able to do anything else at the same time.

	I'm not sure if any of the pictures actually uses 3200 colors, but
it's certainly possible. Basically, instead of 16 palettes with 16 colors
each (yielding 256 colors onscreen at once), there are 200 palettes (one
for each line) with 16 colors each (yielding 3200 colors onscreen at once,
with a max of 16 colors per line).

>While we are on the subject tho, are there any more 3200 color pics out
>there for that 3200color viewer, ya know, the one that does the really
>cool bald eagle pic, and some picture of a girl (or was it a clown?).
>Okay, sue me, I don't know the name of the program.  But there were only
>about 3 pictures posted or sent out.  I figured there would be more.  Or
>at least a program to generate more pictures from standard pics.  The
>author had to create them didn't he?  Are there more of these pics out
>there, and is the program to create them in PD???  I'd really like to
>get access to it if it is.  Any info would be appreciated.

	There are quite a few of the pics - I _think_ that I have all of
them, and I think that John Brooks (yaknow, Tomahawk, Rastan GS, etc.)
did all of the conversions with a, uh, "programmers conversion utility" -
one that wouldn't be the least bit suitable for end-users; however, it's
been quite awhile since I've spoken with him, and my memory is notoriously
bad... There's certainly not a 3200-paint program available, although one
is possible (you wouldn't be able to view the whole screen at once, as doing
the 3200 colors sucks basically ALL the CPU time, but it would be possible
to have, say, 1/3 of the screen to edit, with the possibility of viewing
the entire screen).

	Although I don't have a conversion utility to give out (I tried
one once - this is the sort of programming that I hate), I do have a small
suite of programs that lets you select a batch of the pictures and view
them, slide-show fashion that I can post. Once again, if enough people ask
for it, I'll post it, otherwise, I'll mail it... (Btw, I got enough responses
to warrant posting the Find File NDA). The suite of programs are
FreeWare - John wrote the viewer, and I wrote the selector. I'm _not_ going
to post the pictures, as they take up too much space.

>-k


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