In a message of  Michael Stapleton (3:713/615) wrote:

Hi Michael,

 MO>> where an eight colour photo popped up at the top of the screen in
 MO>> Spot that matched the message's author.  

 MS> That sounds like a cute idea, and it shouldn't really be too
 MS> difficult.  I don't use Spot, but I've written a little shell program
 MS> which can render ILBMs almost anywhere.  :) It can even handle 24 bit
 MS> & it can dither images, if desired. It runs on all Amigas, but it
 MS> doesn't take advantage of HAM, EHB or AGA modes.

Sounds useful for a project like this.

 MS> However, I was wondering how you proposed to get the source images?

If there's enough general interest in this within the echo I'm happy to
offer the services of my flatbed scanner to generate the necessary images. 
People could send suitable hardcopy images to me and I'll scan 'em and
produce consistent sized images.

 MS> Also, I'm curious to see what the inhabitants of this echo really look
 MS> like.

Nothing like what you imagine would be my guess.  Nobody that I've met from
this echo has turned out to look like I expected yet...

 MS> Maybe we should do an "echo pix disk", like they do in the
 MS> international AMIGA echo.  I wonder how many of us have a suitable
 MS> digitized photo?

I have a means of doing the digitizing if that helps...  

  //  CYA,
\X/ Dave ;-)

... Friction can be a drag sometimes.         

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