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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

2378.0. "Convert Amiga IFF to Atari ST?" by MTWAIN::MACDONALD (WA1OMM 7.093/145.05/223.58 AX.25) Mon Mar 20 1989 17:48

    Any utilities available to convert IFF files to whatever the Atari
    ST standard is? Or, is there something to view IFF files on an ST?
    
    Paul
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2378.1Use PICSW7, it handles LOTS of file formatsLEDDEV::WALLACETue Mar 21 1989 16:4461
    PICSW7 (Thats PicSwitch V0.7) can be copied from:
    	LEDDEV::DISK$USER9:[WALLACE.PUBLIC.ST]PICSW7.ARC
    
    Attached are some excerpts from the PicSwitch document which are
    relevent to IFF files.
    
    	Ray Wallace

   ==========================================================================
                           PicSwitch Picture Utility
                   (c)1987 John Brochu for Advanced Software
   ==========================================================================

   Version: 0.7
   Released: April 19, 1987

   PicSwitch 0.7 is distributed as SHAREWARE.  You are encouraged to freely
   distribute the program, but please include this doc file with the program.

    			... a bunch deleted ...
    
   PicSwitch started out as a simple Amiga IFF file viewer back when ST paint
   programs  were hard to come by (around October of '85)!  Since then it has
   undergone  lots of upgrading through versions 0.5 (the original), 0.6, and

    			... a bunch deleted ...

   --------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Supported formats
   --------------------------------------------------------------------------
   This version reads the following file formats:
        o  DEGAS................................. [.PI1-.PI3]
        o  DEGAS Elite compressed................ [.PC1-.PI3]*
        o  NeoChrome.................................. [.NEO]
        o  Tiny............................... [.TNY, .TN1-3]*
        o  NVision.................. [.SC0-2, .CL0-2, .PG0-2]
**-->>  o  Amiga IFF low- & med-res................... [.IFF]
        o  MacPaint................................... [.MAC]
        o  Mac Startup screen......................... [.MAS]
        o  CIS Vidtex hi-res RLE...................... [.RLE]
        o  Atari graphics 8 screen dump............... [.GR8]*
        o  Atari graphics 9 screen dump............... [.GR9]*
        o  Atari Koala/MicroIllustrator............... [.KOA]*
        o  Atari MicroPainter......................... [.MPT]*

   And writes the following ST file formats:
        o  DEGAS
        o  DEGAS Elite compressed*
        o  NeoChrome
        o  NeoChrome 'page' (for NVision)

    			... a bunch deleted ...
    
   For Amiga IFF pics only...
   --------------------------
    o  [1]-[6]: selects the bit-planes to be displayed.
    o  [Space]: cycles through settings [1]-[6].
    o  [R],[G],[B]: boosts the selected color.
    o  [Return]: restores the default planes and colors.

2378.2ATARI ST --> IFFDUCK::AYRESRVW Beetle mechanics do it round the back!Thu Jan 24 1991 08:058
    
    Is there a similar program to convert ATARI ST graphics files TO the AMIGA 
    IFF format?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Russell.
    
2378.3BAGELS::BRANNONDave BrannonThu Jan 24 1991 22:0615
    re:.2
    
    Yes, and it's even on a fish disk from a while ago.  I think it
    was called Multiview.  Handled Degas and Neo.
    
    Haven't seen anything that can handled Spectrum 512 pics yet.
    
    The desire for that kind of thing seemed to vanish as the world
    seems to be moving to GIF as an interchange standard.  Makes sense with 
    Compuserve pushing for having GIF viewers available for most computer 
    systems.
    
    Dave