Re: Apple II Images

[Doug Browning <vgt507@freenet.mb.ca>]

That's exactly why I gave up trying to veiw images on my apple last year, 
with the exception of those intended for hires or dhires (which is what I 
meant by Apple gifs).

Doug Browning
vgt507@freenet.mb.ca
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/~vgt507

On 4 Jun 1997, Mitchell Spector wrote:

> In article Doug Browning (vgt507@freenet.mb.ca) writes...
> 
> >][GIF has trouble displaying non apple gifs.
> 
>     What are "Apple GIFs"? GIF is not a platform specific format, but
> a portable image format that holds an arbitrary resolution and palette
> depth, but limited to 256 colors (8-bit). Perhaps you might mean GIF
> images created on an Apple II?
> 
> >Colors and dimentions are often wrong.
> 
>     Of course they are, and there is little or no way around it because
> it is a hardware limitation. The two graphic formats you have available
> are Hi-Res and Double-Hi-Res, with odd resolutions like 240x192 and
> 560x192. If you want to do color, your working with a fixed palette,
> color bleeding and pixel placement restrictions. That brings you down
> to an awful 140x192 with either 6 or 16 (again, fixed) colors.
> 
>     Basically your going to get a _very_ fuzzy and distorted image in
> the end. If you stand several feet back from the screen and squint a
> bit, you get a vage idea of what the GIF image is. You may get some
> semi-acceptable results with B&W line-art or very simple color cartoon
> drawings I suppose. The bottom line is, other than the Apple IIgs, the
> Apple II is not really suitable for viewing graphics from other machines
> (or at least those sold in the last 12 years or so).
> 
> Mitchell Spector
> spec@vax2.concordia.ca
> 
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