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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I have posted keesan.freeshell.org/bl3jpeg.tgz which I just tried out on 
the computer for which it was intended, a 486 DX25 with 8MB RAM.  It had 
Compaq video (recognized in DOS by compushow as Compaq, to 640x480x256 
colors, but NOT as VESA, and lxpic displays only at 16 color VGA since it 
needs VESA to do more colors).

seejpeg with the older svgalib package from SW3.2 (VGA not VESA) was 
displaying 16-color only the upper left quadrant of an image, on a Trident 
VESA pci video card, so I updated to SW4.0 svgalib package and got VESA 
display 16 million colors at 640.

seejpeg apparently requires VESA to display the whole image because even 
with this later svgalib it only displays a quarter of the image in 
16-shade greyscale.

I did not try xli because it would also be 16-shade greyscale on this 
computer.

I managed eventually to replace seejpeg and libjpeg with zgv and libvgagl, 
and still only filled 80% of the ramdisk.  (I deleted microcom since it 
won't work with my bbs, and lilo since I am using loadlin, and 
install-to-hd since this is a dedicated 2-floppy linux, and setleds and 
the related man pages and a few more bits of X that I had missed).

I then did cat /dev/ram0|gzip > /fd/bl3zgv.gz and got a file system that 
fits in 1.4MB including continue.bat and swap.zip and I have tested in 4MB 
ramdisk with 4MB working RAM and links displays images at 256-shade 
greyscale.  (I did not specify greyscale - might look even better if I did 
so with zgv).

To convert bl3jpeg.tgz to bl3zgv.tgz delete seejpeg and libjpeg* and add 
libvgagl.so.1 linked to so.1.3.1 and zgv, for use on other computers with 
8-bit 'color' (or greyscale), to view images with links at more than 4-bit
depth.

It takes maybe 10 sec to display a 50K image and I am told the video is 
PCI 0 and the software expects PCI 1, but it works anyway on the 486.  It 
would probably also work even better on the 486, and it would work 
(slowly) on the 386 SX 20 with 387 and 5MB total ram if I figured out how 
to use it by the loop method but I have no idea how to convert bl3zgv.gz 
to fs.img.

Any suggestions how to do this?  I could also just add the viewer files to 
loop BL3 and delete the other things I don't want.




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