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Re: Pictures on the IIgs???
In article <DKKyAq.5DK@boss.cs.ohiou.edu>,
Nathaniel Grow <ab375@seorf.ohiou.edu> wrote:
>Sorry if this is a stupid question but I really don't know the answer. Is
>there anyway to download pictures off of the net and view them on the
>IIgs?
Yes. Use something like ProTERM (8-bit, commercial), ANSITerm
(8-bit but GS only, commercial), Spectrum (16-bit, commercial),
or Agate (8-bit, not commercial) to get the file to your computer
(I really reccomend getting a Hard Drive/accelerator/4MB RAM if you
don't already).
>I have the screen that normally is with the IIgs, but I am not sure
>of its official name.
I think it's just the Apple 12" RGB monitor.
>Are there any jpeg or any kind of other picture
>viewers made for the IIgs even if my screen is not good enough.
You have the standard screen, which is pretty much the best you
can use on a GS without getting a Second Sight card.
To view GIFs and TIFFs, I reccomend Prism. You could also use
SuperConvert if you'd like more load/save filetypes, but SC
cannot output 3200 color pictures.
Be sure to consider Convert3200 which is by far the fastest GS graphics
converter yet. It's by Brutal Deluxe, a great group of guys who've
written some pretty cool GS stuff. As the name implies, it reads a bunch
of formats and converts 'em to 3200 color pics or a lot of other formats.
It's available from Joe Kohn for a rediculous $15.
If you'd like to view JPEGs, you have only a few options. I use
jvprerelease, a program that displays JPEGs in greyscale. Grab it from
my ftp site:
ftp.stolaf.edu in /pub/apple2/utils/
-rw-r--r-- 1 handel student 14762 Apr 19 1995 jpegview.shk
Or, you can use djpeg in gno to convert it to a gif and then view that
with any of the aforementioned utilities. This is very slow; I reccomend
converting it before you download it.
Finally, I think there's a 1WSW program that converts JPEGs to PPMs
and then to 3200 color pics, but I've only used it once.
>Please reply by e-mail to ab375@seorf.ohiou.edu Thanks.
I'll mail this to you, but I'm also posting in case someone else
is interested.
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