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- From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Is there a IFF/GIF/JPEG to DynaHIRES converter?
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 04:02:12 GMT
- References: <C06463.Awo@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <Dk9PwB1w165w@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca> <1993Jan2.222912.14705@cs.mun.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan2.222912.14705@cs.mun.ca>, colins@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Colin Stuckless) says most sayishly:
- > Not necessarily. Some of the best pics I've ever seen on a standard
- >chipset Amiga have come from converting 24-bit IFFs or Jpegs to
- >PCHG format with the shareware program HamLabPlus. And it only costs
- >$25 if you want to register it. You can also convert to the 'dynamic'
- >or 'sham' modes, but PCHG is superior to either. And I generally find
-
- Uhhh, doesn't SHAM use PCHG chunks?
- While we're on the topic, I'm still using GIFMachine 2.138 to convert
- GIF to SHAM, since SHAM appears to be the best quality I can get. Is
- there something better? FreeWare, please, don't recommend expensive
- commercial stuff.
-
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