DOS ain't dead - DOS PNG support

DOS PNG support (Announce)

posted by Arjay, 12.12.2009, 15:23
(edited by Arjay on 12.12.2009, 17:31)

> > looked at real old stuff like CSHOW etc but last time I checked
> 20 years ago :clap:
With regards to CSHOW almost correct, I think it was about 15.... Whatever :-)

> It does, if you use the
> Time Dilatation Hack
> correctly to suppress the ERROR 200 BUG :-P

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And your absolutely correct sir, CSHOW 9.04a does support PNG so I will eat humble pie and stand corrected. I'm backing down on my anti-PNG under DOS perspective!

> See ^^^ above
Yeah you got me :)

> YES, the reasons are there, but are just invalid.
As above I fully agreed with you !!

> Is it Fortran or Cobol ??? Supply a "well" compressed TGA :hungry:
Haha, never bothered with Fortran much. Cobol... I'd rather not remember...

> NO. FireFox doesn't support PDF, RTFM
it does with a plugin :) but lets drop the FF for DOS discussion eh? ;-)

> > Even PCX has some wimpy optional compression, no?
> YES, it's just dead (see far above) ;-)
Indeed also agree as you can't even easily open them in lots of places now.

> > QV/PNG
http://www.multimediaware.com/qv
http://www.multimediaware.com/pv

> Isn't it enough ???
Yes I agree.

> > Acroread (only old old .PDFs, but my Falcon 4.0 CD has it!).
> From 1992, < 1% of PDF's around.
Well at least I think we all agree PDF for DOS stuff not a great idea.

> FYI, the 2 PNG's in the ZIP can be losslessly optimized by factor 1.51
> saving almost 4 KiB of bloat :-) :-) :-)
We should all get out more... heh Indeed it's not even raining in the UK right now... well my part (south) which means the North must have rain...

> Don't do this !!! Or at least don't come back into this thread, it's
> bloated, and you will never finish reading it all :-(
LOL !

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DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 21.09.2009, 22:21 (Announce)
- DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 21.09.2009, 23:16
  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 21.09.2009, 23:48
    - GMail doesn't like zips either, rename too ! - Ninho, 08.12.2009, 23:53
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        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - rr, 22.10.2009, 18:39
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        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 08.12.2009, 02:10
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 09.12.2009, 22:04
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - DOS386, 11.12.2009, 01:45
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 11.12.2009, 04:33
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 11.12.2009, 07:33
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 11.12.2009, 10:35
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - rr, 13.12.2009, 18:22
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 14.12.2009, 02:24
- DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 11:11
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    - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - ecm, 11.12.2009, 14:36
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      - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 14:56
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - ecm, 11.12.2009, 15:40
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        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 12.12.2009, 12:11
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 12.12.2009, 12:42
        DOS PNG support - DOS386, 12.12.2009, 13:40
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        DOS PNG support - DOS386, 13.12.2009, 10:20
        DOS PNG support - rr, 12.12.2009, 22:11
        DOS PNG support - DOS386, 19.12.2009, 14:40
        DOS PNG support - rr, 19.12.2009, 23:02
        DOS PNG support -- QPV, QPNG - Rugxulo, 20.12.2009, 00:09
        DOS PNG support - DOS386, 20.12.2009, 07:32
    - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 15:31
  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 11.12.2009, 16:39
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