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 # Credits
-I cannot begin to express my gratitude to the heavy lifters who authored the tools under-the-hood of buckshot.  
+I cannot begin to express my gratitude to the excellent programmers who authored the tools doing the heavy lifting under-the-hood of buckshot.  
 
 ### bmp2dhr
 Thanks to Bill Buckels, whose seminal work in image conversion routines has long inspired me to improve my own IIgs conversion routines.