[Floppertalk] 0.2.6 officially up for download

Jim Leonard floppertalk@oldskool.org
Fri, 02 Jun 2000 10:23:53 -0500


Daniel Backman wrote:
> 
> >I'd also like to see flopper just dump direct .GIF files whenever a
> >screenshot is done eventually, so this code is a nice stepping stone for
> >that work as well.
> >
> >This will not only remove the step of converting the CGA files to GIF files,
> >but the palette info will be readily available at the time the screenshot is
> >made.
> 
> And save incredible amounts of diskspace... ;)

Yeah, but it's not that easy, guys.  Writing a PCX file is much, much
easier.  If you look at the code for CGA2GIF, you'll notice that I'm
relying on a seperate library for the GIF writing, and that lib is 10K
of compiled code.  It's not trivial.

I kind-of like the seperate conversion.  I can come up reasons why,
actually:

- Better conversions.  Most VGA cards don't handle the CGA background
color correctly, or palette tweaks, so you can manually adjust them
before dumping the GIF.
- Faster dumps.  Dumping 16K to a file is fast, fast, fast.

Just my $0.02.
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