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Oh wow I just had such a flashback....

The first time I ever saw JPEG images was from an Amiga magazine (Amiga Format maybe?) coverdisk. If I recall correctly my A2000 would actually take time to display the whole image - it wasn't instant.

Good times!

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I actually went and found the code. It wasn’t JPEG after all, it was Targa, but it still had to be turned into HAM8.

At that time, I had already worked with JPEG on the Amiga, for loading and saving images to/from the GVP TBCplus product. As I recall, it took about a second to load a JPEG image at SD video resolutions, but that was likely with a 68030 or 68040.

There is actually a small community still interested in poking around what little software related to Prevue we’ve found. Did you have any other involvement with the Prevue software?

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