To: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problems using allegro
Message-ID: <19970315.101544.7423.14.fwec@juno.com>
References: <19970312 DOT 054752 DOT 7495 DOT 0 DOT fwec AT juno DOT com>
From: fwec AT juno DOT com (Mark T Logan)
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 10:17:56 EST


On 14 Mar 1997 06:26:29 GMT ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
writes:
>Also, if Shawn is reading this and I suspect he greps the headers for
>"allegro" daily, if he gets this thing working you two could 
>collaborate
>and put TGA read/write in Allegro. (PNG would be nice too... and so 
>would
>either GIF or JPG, since those ar the only image formats standard in 
>web
>browsers now. I haven't a clue why the superior PNG format hasn't been
>adopted by browser makers though...)

Thanks for the reply, but none of that was my problem.  I was using a 16
bit
targa, allegro only supports 8 bit.  Which leads my to say that allegro
already
has targa support(as of 2.2).  I agree that GIF and JPG would be good,
but I 
know nothing about these formats except that GIF uses LZH, or whatever
that algorithm is called.  Same one as PKZIP uses.  I suspect someone
out there must have GIF reading code, and It would be a gracious gesture
on their part to donate it to allegro.


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