From: Shawn Hargreaves 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 Organization: None Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <33B5F6D9 DOT 30CA AT lausd DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us> NNTP-Posting-Host: talula.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 22 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk 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? -- Shawn Hargreaves - shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament.