Re:How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s
by halffullbrain on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @01:54AM
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I actually went and found the code. It wasn’t JPEG after all, it was Targa, but it still had to be turned into HAM8.
At that time, I had already worked with JPEG on the Amiga, for loading and saving images to/from the GVP TBCplus product. As I recall, it took about a second to load a JPEG image at SD video resolutions, but that was likely with a 68030 or 68040.
The first time I ever saw JPEG images was from an Amiga magazine (Amiga Format maybe?) coverdisk. If I recall correctly my A2000 would actually take time to display the whole image - it wasn't instant.
Good times!