Re: LF: ***** Greyscale experts...READ THIS NOW (PLEASE) ******
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Re: LF: ***** Greyscale experts...READ THIS NOW (PLEASE) ******
Well you can allocate the memory you need when the program is run. Then
display the part that is neeeded. It should be possible. My library wil be
finished in hopefully a short time.
Michael Wulff Nielsen.
mal@dit.ou.dk
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Christopher Poole wrote:
> > No, but look at that 30k piccy of sandra bullock. Compression is needed
> > until 4meg TI-92s are the norm of the day. 30k for a 3color raw picture
> > that is absurd. By the way i will release a library for fargo that will
> > decompress pictures. Included will be a little program to compress TI92
> > vars. The routine should be fast and efficient.
> >
> I agree that someone should come up with a better compression scheme for
> the PC, but wanted to point out that this obsession with it having to be
> "powerpacked" is rediculious. Someone that wanted to make a program now
> with greyscale should not worry about compression if they don't know how
> to do it, and just release an update when a compression lib/program
> package like yours comes out.
> Also, you should make your library able to handle scrolling, or files
> larger than the screen, since I heard that that was why bullock was not
> compressed.
>
> --
> Christopher Poole
> poole.christopher@paradox.net
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>
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