the converting app isn't working for me either.

I don't know why. The zbm2bmp works fine, but the bmp2zbm doesn't. Rather odd. I thought that perhaps by some freak chance, even though everything I analized my bitmaps with said that it's a 24-bit pic, I might have an invalidly formatted pic. So I used your demo BMP's of the underwater map. It still didn't work. I'm not sure if this is a windows XP home edition problem. might be. anyway, if anyone else is having the same problem, let us know. and for the mean time, what is the email address i use to send you my pics so you can convert them for me?
thanks!
Oh, and I did the commandline shortcut parameter thing, and that gave me the 16 byte zbm's that someone else was complaining about earlier. also quite odd. anyway, let me know!
-B

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