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From: Matthew Smith
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:52

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In article <1992Jul29.141817.2441@ultb.isc.rit.edu> dxc0904@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.X. Chin ) writes:
>Hello All:
>	I have a problem or just a question, How would I go about using
>GIF images in my programs, I don't mean 16 color images, I mean 256
>color images, I really only need 320x200. But I'm not sure how to
>manipulate them. 
>	I've tried using the Genus PCX libraries, but I can't get their
>BGI to work with Borlands. Because Borlands I think only uses 16 color
>VGA. I tried using a 256 color VGA BGI driver I found, but they didn't
>work with each other either. 
>	What I'm trying to do is use a drawn image for a background in a
>game i'm working on. Any help would be great... 
>
>thanx in advance...
>-
>- Dower
>- dxc0904@ultb.rit.edu

What I did was write my own code to read in PCX files.  Then I can do whatever
I want with them.  Most paint programs store .PCX or .TIFF files.


Matt Smith
msmith@peruvian.utah.edu
Student - University of Utah Department of Computer Science

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