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Spectrum 512 file format

    12-Nov-90 20:45:49
Fm: Harry Callesis 72025,117
To: Darrick West 72000,2727
Darrick – There's a file over in AtariArts forum that has all the popular ST formats explained. You're not going to like Spectrum format much – they choose between 3 different palettes per scan line to get the 512 colors on screen at once. It's quite invloved, which is one of the reasone I didn't include it in my program here (PICCHG.LZH, not sure which library) that converts Degas/Degas Elite, NEOChrome, and Tiny to IFF. One of these days I might get brave enough to try it … Anyway, I'm not sure which library in AtariArts it is, but go over there, list the library names (with LN) and choose one that sounds right 8^). That's what I did. And good luck on the conversion program. Harry