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Adrian wrote in demon.tech.amiga about "Re: Is there a PhotoCD datatype?":
> That dead clever bloke Doug said,
> >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
> :-)
> 

There are several sizes of image stored on the CD,

   192x 128 
   384x 256
   768x 512
  1536x1024
  3072x2048
  6144x4096

They used one of the lower resolutions.


BTW If you've got Photogenics and a CD drive and haven't tried out
PhotoCD, do so, It's a superb combination.

Photogenics comes with a loader that will load up to the 768x512 image, 
This is adequate for photomontages, but lacking for a lot of other uses.

(Hey jase, let's see the next version of photogenics allow you to use a 
low res preview to crop a small section out of the hires image)

Cheers,

Doug.

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