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- GFA Graphic Utilities
-
- I've spent a lot of programming with GFA and have found
- that GFA, in the Shareware realm, lacked any real graphical
- optimization functions. So I decided to write a few...
-
- All code is 100% GFA and all the sources for the decompression
- routines can be merged in GFA programs with a fair amount of
- ease.
-
- The sources can be obtained at the address below:
-
- Martin Kruse
- 137 W Bay Area
- Webster, TX 77598
-
- My Genie address is TMP
-
- I ask for a donation for the sources
- say... $4 for one, $10 for all...
- but almost anything will be accepted but the amount will
- of course determine how much help I will give you.....
-
- None of these routines save the color pallete and have no capability
- of restore a picture to its original format... All routines are for
- GFA programming use only...
-
- Kanimate
-
- Is a basic frame by frame animation saving something roughly akin
- to CyberPaint's SEQ or Deluxe Paint's IFF multiple body formats
- Kanimate is very slow to compress but decompresses relatively
- quick. (A 175K compression takes about 40 seconds to decompress)
- Two things of note: I'm using a 'FILTER' color to map out the changes
- that occur frame to frame so in essence you lose a color so make sure the
- sequence of frames doesn't use all 16 colors or you lose. Second their
- is an auto mode, place all frames(Neo format) in sequence in a folder
- giving them the same name and frame number... say... Pic1,Pic2,...Pic10,
- Pic11, etc. Then select auto mode and follow the cryptic prompts....
- Make sure you remember the path to the folder with the pics, you will
- have to type it in...
-
-
- Gfacomp2
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- Takes in a Neo and allows you to compress a section or all of the picture.
- Within the source(not noticable in this prg) you can decompress the clip
- in an Overlap mode(optional) thus allowing for compressing overlays...
- Also has a GFA Record option that saves a clip in GFA get/put format...
-
-
- KPP
-
- This is a full picture compression. Its very fast and compression
- rates are close or better than PC1. 3 Formats allow you to choose the
- best compression option. A couple of bugs though... look under INFO
- option in the KPP menu.
-
-
- Hope you feel you can use this software, and I feel it will be very
- useful for GFA programmers out there who want to trim the size of those
- Neos or want to add an animation or two to their prgs.
-
- Note: Kanimate compresses really slow... Its almost painful (Ha)
-
- You may freely distribute this software as long as this doc goes with
- it.
-
-
- Martin Kruse
- 2-26-91
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