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Everybody (every tool) unfamilar with this chunk will ignore it(!). Note the difference.
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I know what's the difference, but since currently every tool would be unfamiliar with this chunk, every tool will ignore it.
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Think about the future. You want to have a future for your tool, aint you?
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Future? We're talking about a 30 year old retrocomputer and fileformat. I want to support what exists, not dream about what is not and never will.
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Originally Posted by Cylon
Well, your tool can have an option to include/exclude that alpha??
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It would be pointless.
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Maybe a 1bit-alpha (mask!)?
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The genlock's 1-bit transparency is applied for
palette entries (maximum 32 on top of that). That cannot be applied to pixels.
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Originally Posted by Cylon
Why not create an entire new image class, likewise iff24?
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Not my competence. Whenever something will appear what can do something with alpha layers in the ILBM i will support it. I won't create unnecessary and/or useless features, just to create them.
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Why should a user care about image's filesize anyway?
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Because size does matter.
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This is not 1995 anymore!
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On the classic Amiga, it is. Not too much memory or HDD, i won't waste it for unneeded and unusable data.
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Make it an option. Design it wisely. Publish the specifications.
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What do you expecting? Somebody will port Photoshop or GIMP to the Amiga? There won't be any programs what will support it.
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Btw. gfx cards supports any 24 bit image, which could also be a composition of many different sources of images, therefore also a combined color+alpha image. it is not the hardware that defines the src image.
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What?