From: Miguel Guerreiro Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Help, BMP files wont load in grabber. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:32:49 +0000 Organization: Servico de News da Universidade do Algarve Lines: 26 Message-ID: <36AF4DC1.808B0DD5@aaual.ualg.pt> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.11.85.125 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (WinNT; I) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Alleycat wrote: > This is very fustrating... Please help me! > > Here's the problem... > > I am making tiles in Adobe Photo Shop 5.0. These tiles are stored as 24 bit > BMP files. Yet, when I try to make a .dat file with the grabber that comes > with Allegro 3.0, it always crashes when I try to read in the BMP's. Oddly > enough, the BMP files that came with windows as screen backgrounds and > screen tiles all work just fine. I must be doing something incorrectly, but > what? > > Any suggestions on how I might be able to fix this problem? I'd really > appriciate any help you have to offer. Thank you! > > reply E-mail: > alleycat AT fclass DOT net You can't read 24-bit BMP's in grabber, convert them to 16-bit and you'll be fine. Had the same problem myself, but then I used Windows Paint to save them in 16-bit mode and it was solved.