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- HAMLAB V0.91
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- - IFF-ILBM Image Convertor -
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- Table of Contents
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- Introduction............................. line 32 / 41 %
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- Hardware Requirments..................... line 47 / 52 %
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- Use...................................... line 80 / 85 %
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- History.................................. line 97 / 100 %
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- © 1991 By Dreamer Of Wizzcat
- PL 2286, 96201 Rovaniemi, Finland
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- (This document is also prerelease)
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- (Recommended viewing program: PPmore)
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- INTRODUCTION
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- With this program you can converte almost all pictures which are in IFF-ILBM
- form to Amiga. Because the converting almost all means transporting pictures
- from another machine to Amiga I had to decide which format I use. IFF-ILBM was
- natural choice because all other machines got programs to chance their weird
- pictureformats to IFF. However I must tell you that there is new IFF-PBM
- format what new PC-Dpaint2 supports so if you use it and want to move pics to
- Amiga, remember save pictures to ILBM form.
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- HARDWARE REQUIRMENTS
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- MINIMUM:
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- Amiga
- 512 KB Ram
- 1 DiskDrive
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- Note: With this hardware the use is only bad joke!
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- ENOUGH:
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- Amiga
- 1024 KB Ram
- 1 DiskDrive
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- Note: This is enough in most of the cases.
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- BEST:
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- Amiga (68030 or 68040)
- 1024 KB CHIP Ram & 1024 RAM
- 300 MB HardDisk
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- Note: $$$ ($$$$$$ in Finland)
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- USE
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- The gadgets should be self-explanatory but some words about DreamHAM.
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- Use this mode when you want only see picture but don't want to edit it later.
- Mode is fully automatical and will halve x-size when there is more than 320
- pixels in row. Maximum display size is 313*624 and if size is greater only
- part of the picture is showed. However all data is saved to file. You can't
- save picture to IFF. So why to use this mode?
- - Better quality: picture is sharper and cleaner than HAM.
- ! You can make tool icon for DHAM picture and show it from WorkBench !
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- HISTORY
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- WHY?
- About 6 months or so I wanted to converte some pics from PC (SuperVGA) to
- AmigaHAM. For that task I started to search converte programs and I found
- two: VirtGIF and GIF2HAM. Both programs were designed to converte GIF-pics to
- HAM but when I started to test them I soon founded that the programs could not
- satisfy my needs because they were very slow and conversion was bad.
- After that I started to code my own converte program which I thought to be
- the best and the fastest in the world... Did I succeed? You can be the judge!
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- LONG RUN...
- At first I of course started to think algorithm for picture conversion and it
- was quite hard to invente. I can tell you that the algorithm is very simple
- and reasonable fast. When the algorithm was ready I got great idea to improve
- the HAM-mode. Then I simply coded the program and named that new mode as
- DreamHAM. Of course I was too lazy to code normal HAM conversion routine at
- the same time. But now (26.03.1991) I get enough strenght to do it. It is also
- possible that in the 'near' future I'll make bitmap-routines..
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