[A83] ZPic83

To: A83 <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: [A83] ZPic83
From: Darren <qarnos@iprimus.com.au>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 20:03:50 -0700
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Hi guys!

I've just completed an initial version of my image compressor. It works 
much like Bill Nagels pic83, with the following enhancements:

    1) it can compress images (Most of my pics have been reduced to less 
than half their original size!)
    2) it can handle PCX files of any dimension and color depth (no need 
to convert to 256 colors anymore :)

I'm not too sure about my 16 color PCX routines. Neopaint stores them in 
a non-standard manner, so I couldn't test it fully. This is essentially 
a beta release anyhow, so let me know about any bugs.

You can download ZPic83 from 
http://home.iprimus.com.au/qarnos/zpic83/zpic83.zip. Please note it is a 
Windows console program, and so it won't run under plain ol' DOS (blame 
Visual C). I will release the source code shortly, however, so those who 
wish to can compile it under DOS, or even Linux (I've stuck to ANSI 
functions wherever possible).

In future, I plan to add support for grayscale, masking and images 
consisting of tiles, so hopefully it will be something to look forward to.

Anyhow, have fun and let me know what results you get :)

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[A83] Re: ZPic83

From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>