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On 2 Mar 2004 at 22:49, Omar Cornut wrote:
> That would be useful for the average user (PCX is quite outdated
> now, but it is the only format of the 3 with a fair compression
> ratio for paletted images. GIF would suit better).
Actually, by that argument, I'd much rather see PNG support from Allegro
than GIF. PNG provides as good compression as GIF (sometimes a lil more,
sometimes a lil less), but PNG supports bit depths other than 8 bit, and
PNG supports alpha channels. It is as good as TGA in expressive power and
is decently supported across editors, and it provides good compression.
I don't see any reason to use GIF over PNG myself, and as such, were I to
recommend the addition of any new image loading code into Allegro, I'd
recommend PNG over GIF.
Of course, both should be supported via add-ons. I'm only talking about
support directly in Allegro.
Jason Winnebeck
Gillius's Programming
http://www.rit.edu/~jpw9607/