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This disc is being distributed as the second Archive
JPEG shareware disc. See the reference in Archive, August '94.
Please note that !FYEO2 is shareware, and NOT
public domain. This means that you must register
with the author (details contained within the !Help
file inside the application) if you use it after
the two week trial period.
You may still access the images by using a PD JPEG
application, such as those on the shareware 51 disc.
The NASA images were collected off Internet via
JANET by Philip Draper, to whom we express grateful
thanks! All are from 24 bpp originals, and so with
the right JPEG application, could be used to produce
24 bits-per-pixel sprites - for those fortunate enough
to be using separate graphics cards or the RiscPC.
Note that !FYEO2 will only produce 8 bpp sprites.
ImageBank should produce 24 bpp 'true colour' sprites
on the right hardware, but not having the 'right
hardware', I can't test it out!
The images must not be used for commercial purposes.
Double-click on the 'thumbnails' file to get a
preview of the pictures in a !Paint sprite window.
Even if you are too impatient to read the !FYEO
document files, do at least make sure that you're in
a 256 (or 32k or 16M!) colour mode before starting.
NB This disc really needs 2Mb RAM for sensible use,
and the larger files will need a 4Mb machine to 'unpack'.
EG SIBERIA produces a 1280k sprite and !FYEO2 needs about
1800k of memory in total when processing it!
This disc put together by Stuart Bell, Archive JPEG
columnist, June 1994.
PS Have you got an interesting use of JPEG processing which
you could share with Archive readers? Have you got some
new JPEG images which others might like to see?
If so, please write to:
Stuart Bell,
23 Ryecroft Drive,
Horsham,
RH12 2AW.