From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Tile Editor(sorry no original email; 6/28 list)
Date:	Sun, 29 Jun 1997 10:36:42 +0100
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eLpEE writes:
>Once I finish writing the Graphix Library, I start
>writing VESA Paint & finalize IFAS97 specification stuff.  If you have
>any questions about IFAS97 format, you can email & I'll email you back a
>preliminary IFAS97 concept list.  For compatibility for this new format,
>I intend to implement conversion functions to AVI, MPG, JPG, PCX,
>GI87/GIF89, & BMP.  All this is done in/& for DJGPP.  I emailed
>Allegro's author about compatibility but he has yet to reply.

Sorrry about that: I'm way behind on my email at the moment...

My reaction to this is, the graphics library and tools sound like a
great idea, but why do we need a new file format? Is there anything so
fundamentally wrong with PCX, BMP, LBM, TGA, etc? Personally I think
there are way too many different image formats around already, and the
last thing the world needs is yet another one :-) What's wrong with
using the existing standards?


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