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From article <1991May22.162721.29171@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, by zeno@tortuga.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Ron Zeno):
> 
> I'm trying to find an tool, ideally shareware, that has options for 
> remapping a PICT from one palette to another, instead of just using 
> the default remapping.  I'm trying to combine elements of different 
> bitmaps, each of which has its own palette, together into a PICT file 
> that uses the System palette.  A tool that dithers in 256 colors as it 
> remaps would be great.  Controls for contrast and brightness would 
> also be very useful.  Does anyone know of such a tool? 
>  
> Ron Zeno            Ron.Zeno@SanDiego.ncr.com 


The tools you want is not shareware, but it will be released soon.  It
is called deBabelizer and it does exactly what you've asked for plus
a TON of other things, such as conversion between about 30 different
graphics formats, palette reduction, scaling, rotating, conversion
to grayscale or B&W, combining palettes, creating "super palettes"
from multiple pictures, background color removal, dithering with
MANY different options, including the ability to dither an image
without dithering the background color.  It features scripting and
batch processing.  It also does a bunch of other things that I haven't
listed here.  It's written by Dave Theurer, the programmer for
the original Atari Coin-op games Missle Command, Tempest, I-Robot,
APB...  

I can tell you for a fact that the tools is indispensable if you
are doing any kind of video game design or image digitizations.

It should be available sometime this summer from Equilibrium
software in Sausalito, CA.

	- Ed Rotberg -
	- Atari Games Corp. -