From: Paul Shirley <Paul AT no DOT spam DOT please>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Tile Editor(sorry no original email; 6/28 list)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 23:56:01 +0100
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In article <jXq7BFAqyitzEw4R AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, Shawn Hargreaves
<Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> writes
>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?

In particular: whats wrong with PNG? Between PNG and JPeg you should
need no other formats anyway ( although Microsoft might disagree ;)

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