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- From: scornd7@solomon.technet.sg (Tang Chang Thai)
- Subject: Re: ImgFun 1.00 powerful gif, bmp, pcx, jpeg viewer
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:31:30 GMT
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- : Before anyone gets too excited, it may be worth pointing out that as a JPEG
- : viewer this program is not exactly "super fast". I clock it at about half
- : the speed of DVPEG, which itself is much slower than 386-specific programs
- : like Hiview. And IMGFUN's picture quality is decidedly worse --- looks like
- : it uses a fixed colormap instead of a two-pass quantizer.
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- I don't know what's wrong. I've Hiview running fine to view some JPG files
- on a 386 with a ET4000 video card, but ImgFun is no go. It works okay for
- GIF files though. Wonder why? *blink*
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