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>Illya Rudkin wrote in demon.tech.amiga about "Is there a PhotoCD datatype?":
>> I have been looking around for a long time for a PhotoCD image datatype.
>> I just read in Amiga Computing of a PhotoCD datatype. Does it really
>> exist out there somewhere ?


>Well, I've not seen a datatype, but there is HPCDtoPPM available on aminet.

>src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/pub/aminet/gfx/pbm/hpcdtoppm-0.6.lha     138K

>This does the best job I've seen, of course for big images it requires
>fairly massive gobs of memory. I recall 72M for a 3072x2048, better dust off
>VMM. (and be prepared to leave it overnight)

>It will even read the 6144x4096 image, but I only tried this on one
>of the AIX boxes at work that has 256M ram and 4G swap.

While I would also like to see a PCD datatype, I would like to ask this
question. Since the images on Photo-CD are so big, what did the original Kodak
Photo CD players do to disply the images. I am pretty sure they did *not*
have stacks of memory like the guy above. They were last available for �99 :-)

Anyway, if anyone does see a datatype around, let us know please.


Adrian
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