Nice work.

So people used PC Paint back in the DOS era? I remember .TGA files were popular in those days.

Errius wrote:

Nice work.

So people used PC Paint back in the DOS era? I remember .TGA files were popular in those days.

Thanks!
You know, I am not sure what people used. But I do know that PC Paint can save as GIF, which I figured was the image format most likely to be compatible with a wide range of browsers.

Good stuff. Looks fine on Mozilla 1.6 run on Xandros 2 linux desktop on a P166mmx.

Dr Halo was early Dos paint program. It was even bundled with ealy hand held scanners and mice.

Yes, GIF89 was very popular. It was the format of choice on Shareware/Animation CD-ROMS of the early 90s.
Before that, GIF87a was used by early on-line services such as CompuServe (its creator).
(FLI/FLC was also used for animations for a while).

GIF87a/PCX were also among the oldest foreign formats supported by Windows programs.
For example, Easel from ~1987/88 can read, display and save them on Windows 2.x, too.

*.TGA files were also very popular in the 90s, since they could display high-quality photos (no 256c limit).
That being said, not sure what happened to TIF, though. It (in monochrome) was often used for storing faxes, I believe.

Caluser2000 wrote:

Dr Halo was early Dos paint program. It was even bundled with ealy hand held scanners and mice.

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Boy, this reminds me of my father's old handy scanner. It came with Cameron Handy Scanner software (~87). 😁
Dr. Halo was bundled with his Genius GM 6 (?) serial mouse, though.

Jo22 wrote:

*.TGA files were also very popular in the 90s, since they could display high-quality photos (no 256c limit).
That being said, not sure what happened to TIF, though. It (in monochrome) was often used for storing faxes, I believe.

TIF was a high quality lossless image format. It was heavily used in pro graphics in the day. It's been largely surpassed by superior formats like PNG for a while now.

I remember dicking around with PCX files as a kid in kidpix

PNG is very nice, but I notice that even on newish computers it takes a noticable amount of time to save very large images, whereas PCX, TGA and TIF are practically instantaneous.

Errius wrote:

Nice work.

So people used PC Paint back in the DOS era? I remember .TGA files were popular in those days.

TGA? I thought it was PCX. If I recall correctly, GRASP, which was a quite popular animation tool those days, uses PCX format.

gdjacobs wrote:

Jo22 wrote:

That being said, not sure what happened to TIF, though. It (in monochrome) was often used for storing faxes, I believe.

TIF was a high quality lossless image format. It was heavily used in pro graphics in the day. It's been largely surpassed by superior formats like PNG for a while now.

TIF (GeoTIFF) is still the number 1 image file format for satellite based imagery, as it can store multiple spectral channels in seperate layers and offers georeferencing (absolute position) through metadata and is widely accepted not only in QGIS, Imagine and ArcMap, but also in Photoshop and other software.

blurks wrote:

TIF (GeoTIFF) is still the number 1 image file format for satellite based imagery, as it can store multiple spectral channels in seperate layers and offers georeferencing (absolute position) through metadata and is widely accepted not only in QGIS, Imagine and ArcMap, but also in Photoshop and other software.

Cool! That explains why old programs for Meteosat reception (JV-Fax etc) used it, too.
Gosh!, that reminds me of the times I watched old METEO/NOAA pictures(animation on CompuServe!! 😁

I used PC-Paint and Dr Halo too - both of them were bundled with mice, so they were common as dirt. Just last month I was digging through old floppies and found some CGA "art" I made in PC-Paint when I was 10. All I can say is I'm glad I've improved.
Of course, once I discovered Autodesk Animator (and DPaint, but chiefly AA) I never looked back.

blurks wrote:

gdjacobs wrote:

Jo22 wrote:

That being said, not sure what happened to TIF, though. It (in monochrome) was often used for storing faxes, I believe.

TIF was a high quality lossless image format. It was heavily used in pro graphics in the day. It's been largely surpassed by superior formats like PNG for a while now.

TIF (GeoTIFF) is still the number 1 image file format for satellite based imagery, as it can store multiple spectral channels in seperate layers and offers georeferencing (absolute position) through metadata and is widely accepted not only in QGIS, Imagine and ArcMap, but also in Photoshop and other software.

That's interesting to know. Not a GIS guy, so I wasn't aware of this specific application. The use of layers is an advantage TIFF (non baseline) has over PNG, although TIFF is a poor standard for interchange unless you're using a strict subset. Compatibility is otherwise variable.