Jim Rea wrote in a message to All:
 JR> Is there a way to use BMP graphics files as opening screens.
 JR> I have over 1000 graphics, and would like to use a couple as
 JR> opening Welcome.GBS screens. 
 JR> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Not in any kind of practical sense.  I had a GIF to ANSI converter but it was 
less than satisfactory.  It would only convert a small area of an image to 
ANSI and most of the time the results were hardly recognizable as an image.
With the exception of RIP graphics, which most of the BBS scene appears to be 
giving up on, OPUS is text/ANSI only and probably will never evolve past 
that.  
If being able to display images is something important to you, you might want 
to look at Shotgun Pro.  This is a BBS package that displays SVGA graphics 
and images to your SVGA callers who use the free to distribute client 
terminal program, as well as ANSI and TTY to callers who prefer to use more 
conventional terminal programs.  
I believe that BBS package supports Fido message format (*.MSG) as well as 
SQUISH and JAM, so it could be run "in parallel" with OPUS using something 
like BBSELECT to allow callers to select between up to 9 diffrent BBS 
packages on one phone line.
But you *WILL HAVE TO* use an image capable BBS to display real image 
reens.
Regards,
           bforeman@webstar.net
         Web site URL http://www.webstar.net/~bforeman
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