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From: Dennis Payne <dulsi@identicalsoftware.com>
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Subject: Linux (or Unix) Tools
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:30:27 -0500
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I was wondering if there are any Linux (or Unix) tools for converting
sounds and images to Net Yaroze formats.  I recently created some
programs for converting 256-color pcx to 8-bit or 4-bit tim.  I plan on
releasing them as soon as I hear from Sony about whether I can make them
available outside the members site.  

The tools are based on a simple graphics library I wrote a while ago. 
The graphics library works under DOS, Linux-SVGALib and Linux-X11.  In
theory the X version should work on any Unix with MIT-SHM support
although the files may sometimes use "#if defined(__linux__) &&
defined(XLIB)" so that would need to be fixed.  It is also currently
little-eidian only.  (The DOS port of the library may or may not be in a
working state since I haven't tried it in a long time.)

Yaroid v0.2 is a result of these tools. 
  http://www.scea.sony.com/net/yaroze/pages/dpayne.html

Dennis Payne
dulsi@identicalsoftware.com