GifBlast for The Amiga
With the arrival of the AGA chip set, GIF is rapidly becoming a popular
file format on the Amiga. So naturally, it is important to be able to
archive these files as efficiently as possible. And where raw file
compression is concearned, nothing comes close to GifBlast (~30% on
average).
While browsing through the days load of new files on my favourite BBS, I
stumbled into the source code for this popular PC program, so I decided to
prepare a version for the Amiga. This is the result. Finally, Amiga users
can enjoy the benefits of loss-less GIF compression!
There are two versions enclosed in this archive. One for plain 68000
machines, and one for those with more processor power (68020 or higher).
You can get an overview of the syntax for GifBlast by entering "GifBlast"
on its own. As of yet there is no GUI frontend for the program, nor is it
particulary useful for WB users.
Please note that I make no representations whatsoever, as to the usability
of these executables, as I did not write any of the source code. I simply
compiled the existing source program with my own C compiler, to obtain an
Amiga executable. However, I have tested GifBlast on my own [68040]
system, and it performs very well.
Oh, one final note: Arm yourself with a lot of patience. Unless you have
at least a 030 running at a decent speed, you can expect some quite
staggering compression and decompression times. GifBlast isn't exactly the
worlds fastest program :-)
Happy crunching!
(Sysops, please leave this message in the archive, so that new users will
know the background of the Amiga version of GifBlast)
-Michael Berg, 2:230/816.8@FidoNet
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