thnx nigel, dont worry about digging too much, i can go bug the vb guys, i just figured it was close enough to electronics that someone would kno, but maybe you can look at this link that i am using:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format
i was able to find the data easy for the most of it, but look at the image decoding section, that is where im hanging.
i have read that ther are several steps, i think i have interpreted it as
1) convert to 9bit
2)remove the byte,
3)then something about subtraction...and using the previous number to subtract the next code......
the tutorial earlier in the post also mentioned about how it clumps lines with the same color, ie c-c-c-c-c-c =6c, but it doesnt mention how it is written for the compressor, ie 6c, is that how it would show?
also i have gotten as far as finding my palet table in the code:
00 FF 00 Global Color Table
FF 00 00
00 00 01
FF FF FF
00 00 FF
i presume those are my 5 colors(r,g,b,bk,wh), so my 10x10 image3 i think is green, so it should expand to all 5's, 2's or 1's
or
10 lines of that 10greens, or 105?
it will be easy to tell since the 10X10 image is unicolor, so the output chart will be the same # over.....
09 08 BA DC FE 30 CA 49 6B 4C <------------that is defiantly the image3 though.