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Re:Sierra digital cameras on the Apple II by colinlm on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @08:49AM (#49726196)
Author here.

Monochrome only, and it downscales. Only 1/4th of the pixels' IDCTs are computed, for "speed". It is also hardcoded for 640x480 images, again, for "speed" :-)

It's based on picojpeg, heavily reworked to get rid of about all intermediate buffers, core decoder functions rewritten in assembly.

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