Files enclosed

DESCA           12876  Amiga version (Yehh)
DESCA.EXE        7200  PC version (Ok, I use shit PC's too, so what?)
AZCOLORS.IFF     4584  Sample pic showing the AzComm8col colors and also
                       You could use it to test this shit
DESCA.DOC        2043  This file (Amiga format)
DESCA.TXT        2086  This file in PC format (urks)

Limitations to the picture

320 * 256, 3 bitplanes, IFF ILBM (BYTERUN1 compressed)

You should leave at least 1 row of pixels blank at either or both
sides of the screen, per each line.

You should leave at lease 8 lines blank at the bottom of the picture.

The more color changes per line, the bigger the resulting ANSI-file
will get. (-surprise, huh?)

A two- or three-pixel-wide colored area, surrounded by black, produces
the same # bytes as a one-pixel-wide one, in most cases...

A single black pixel between 2 adjacent different-colored areas produces
lots of extra bytes, so should be avoided?

Limitations to the conversion

It isn't 100% optimized (I'm lazy...), and it makes no difference whether
You use 1, 2 or 3 of the bitplanes...

No "most-used-color" optimization is done... use as much color 0 as
possible produces the smallest files...

Large same-colored areas produces small & fast files. Small letters and
such stuff produces loadsa bytes... tough luck but as I said it's for
the modemability... no chars above $7F are used (sigh, why do almost
all comms proggs "wash away" our beloved swedish characters and all 
others +$80, whether You want them to or not..., damn crap 'o shit...)
but if You wanna do black-and-white ansipics then there are other
proggs out that does the trick... I did it first (I think) but am lazy
so didn't bother releasing such a progg (I did that old fucken warfalcons
unpack-pic mentioned by some...) this is for all You modemfreaks out there
so enjoy. And ok I know it's coded damned unsmart and so but I'm lazy and
anyway I'm not really a coder. Urks... Well don't blame me if You think
it stinks.

Coma/S.O.S January 30, 1991