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  1. What was before JPEG? #pcx #shorts – YouTube

    I feel old, because I vividly remember the PCX (1985) graphics file format: it was the defacto standard under DOS. TIFF (1986) was slightly younger, and came from the scanner background resulting in very large files though unlike PCX (which had lossless compression), TIFF supported both lossless and lossy compression. On Windows and OS/2, you had BMP (1985, lossless initially only black and white).

    wiert.me/2026/01/08/what-was-b

  2. I just updated my #MSDOS image viewer/converter #DosView

    * Updated libjpeg to 9f.
    * Updated libjasper to 4.2.4.
    * Fixed a crash when running out of memory during loading/display.
    * Fixed version number when running DosView.
    * Added help overlay in view mode.
    * Patched Allegro to support more BMP formats.
    * Fixed DE LSM for FreeDOS.

    github.com/SuperIlu/DosView/re

    #RetroComputing
    #jpeg #png #qoi #webp #bmp #tga #NetPBM #ras #tiff #jpeg2000 #pcx #FreeDOS #GIF #PSD #HDR #PIC

  3. I just updated my #MSDOS image viewer/converter #DosView

    * Updated libjpeg to 9f.
    * Updated libjasper to 4.2.4.
    * Fixed a crash when running out of memory during loading/display.
    * Fixed version number when running DosView.
    * Added help overlay in view mode.
    * Patched Allegro to support more BMP formats.
    * Fixed DE LSM for FreeDOS.

    github.com/SuperIlu/DosView/re

    #RetroComputing
    #jpeg #png #qoi #webp #bmp #tga #NetPBM #ras #tiff #jpeg2000 #pcx #FreeDOS #GIF #PSD #HDR #PIC

  4. I just updated my #MSDOS image viewer/converter #DosView

    * Updated libjpeg to 9f.
    * Updated libjasper to 4.2.4.
    * Fixed a crash when running out of memory during loading/display.
    * Fixed version number when running DosView.
    * Added help overlay in view mode.
    * Patched Allegro to support more BMP formats.
    * Fixed DE LSM for FreeDOS.

    github.com/SuperIlu/DosView/re

    #RetroComputing
    #jpeg #png #qoi #webp #bmp #tga #NetPBM #ras #tiff #jpeg2000 #pcx #FreeDOS #GIF #PSD #HDR #PIC

  5. I just updated my #MSDOS image viewer/converter #DosView

    * Updated libjpeg to 9f.
    * Updated libjasper to 4.2.4.
    * Fixed a crash when running out of memory during loading/display.
    * Fixed version number when running DosView.
    * Added help overlay in view mode.
    * Patched Allegro to support more BMP formats.
    * Fixed DE LSM for FreeDOS.

    github.com/SuperIlu/DosView/re

    #RetroComputing
    #jpeg #png #qoi #webp #bmp #tga #NetPBM #ras #tiff #jpeg2000 #pcx #FreeDOS #GIF #PSD #HDR #PIC

  6. I just updated my #MSDOS image viewer/converter #DosView

    * Updated libjpeg to 9f.
    * Updated libjasper to 4.2.4.
    * Fixed a crash when running out of memory during loading/display.
    * Fixed version number when running DosView.
    * Added help overlay in view mode.
    * Patched Allegro to support more BMP formats.
    * Fixed DE LSM for FreeDOS.

    github.com/SuperIlu/DosView/re

    #RetroComputing
    #jpeg #png #qoi #webp #bmp #tga #NetPBM #ras #tiff #jpeg2000 #pcx #FreeDOS #GIF #PSD #HDR #PIC

  7. I just updated my #MSDOS image viewer/converter #DosView

    * added #GIF
    * added #PSD
    * added #HDR
    * added #PIC
    * added an UPX compressed EXE
    * enabled dithering
    * added 8bpp display mode
    * fixed another scaling error
    * fixed error when reading certain PNGs

    github.com/SuperIlu/DosView/re

    #RetroComputing
    #jpeg #png #qoi #webp #bmp #tga #NetPBM #ras #tiff #jpeg2000 #pcx #FreeDOS

  8. I just updated my #MSDOS image viewer/converter #DosView

    * added #GIF
    * added #PSD
    * added #HDR
    * added #PIC
    * added an UPX compressed EXE
    * enabled dithering
    * added 8bpp display mode
    * fixed another scaling error
    * fixed error when reading certain PNGs

    github.com/SuperIlu/DosView/re

    #RetroComputing
    #jpeg #png #qoi #webp #bmp #tga #NetPBM #ras #tiff #jpeg2000 #pcx #FreeDOS

  9. I just updated my #MSDOS image viewer/converter #DosView

    * added #TIFF

    * added #JPEG2000

    * fixed zoom and documentation

    * added 24/32bpp autodetection

    * added image info

    * added num pad keys

    * added check to list modes

    github.com/SuperIlu/DosView/re

    #RetroComputing #jpeg #png #qoi #webp #bmp #tga #pcx

  10. I just updated my #MSDOS image viewer/converter #DosView

    * added #TIFF

    * added #JPEG2000

    * fixed zoom and documentation

    * added 24/32bpp autodetection

    * added image info

    * added num pad keys

    * added check to list modes

    github.com/SuperIlu/DosView/re

    #RetroComputing #jpeg #png #qoi #webp #bmp #tga #pcx

  11. Well, someone suggested I make a #MSDOS image viewer/converter that supports modern image formats. So I cobbled some #DOjS code together and here we are: #DosView
    github.com/SuperIlu/DosView

    #RetroComputing #jpeg #png #qoi #webp #bmp #tga #pcx

  12. #Linux people: does anyone know of an app as good as #Irfanview, but for Linux?

    To be more specific, does anyone know of an image viewer that will handle very old 2-colour #PCX files and (in an ideal world) #Psion PIC files? Because at the moment I'm having to boot a VM and run Irfanview, and it's getting tedious. I could run it in WINE, but I'd rather have something native.

    I've tried feh, gThumb... Even GIMP won't do it. It's like the world has forgotten this format ever existed.