[Floppertalk] 0.2.6 officially up for download
Jim Leonard
floppertalk@oldskool.org
Fri, 02 Jun 2000 10:23:53 -0500
Daniel Backman wrote:
>
> >I'd also like to see flopper just dump direct .GIF files whenever a
> >screenshot is done eventually, so this code is a nice stepping stone for
> >that work as well.
> >
> >This will not only remove the step of converting the CGA files to GIF files,
> >but the palette info will be readily available at the time the screenshot is
> >made.
>
> And save incredible amounts of diskspace... ;)
Yeah, but it's not that easy, guys. Writing a PCX file is much, much
easier. If you look at the code for CGA2GIF, you'll notice that I'm
relying on a seperate library for the GIF writing, and that lib is 10K
of compiled code. It's not trivial.
I kind-of like the seperate conversion. I can come up reasons why,
actually:
- Better conversions. Most VGA cards don't handle the CGA background
color correctly, or palette tweaks, so you can manually adjust them
before dumping the GIF.
- Faster dumps. Dumping 16K to a file is fast, fast, fast.
Just my $0.02.
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