Re: Encoding GIFFs on an Apple II

["Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> Mark McDougall wrote:
> 
> > BTW uncompressed GIF images are larger than the raw image.
> > 
> > FWIW my vote is for PNG! ;)
> 
> True, but their advantage is that they are viewable by any browser
> (also true of PNG) and they require very little computation on the
> Apple II--which could be a big advantage for an Apple II.
> 
> I guess the real issue is Simnon's application...

Well, I was hoping for a simple method of producing graphical web content
on an 8-bit Apple... compression is probably an unnecessary complication
as the files would be small by todays standards anyway. At this point it
seems relatively trivial to encode the image data uncompressed, but there
are a few things in the file header that I don't understand as yet. Might
have to put this on the back-burner (I need a bigger back-burner!)
-s

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