Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 21:49:28 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... Message-ID: <199801071119.VAA00238@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 1998 18:47:24 %2B0900." <199801070947.SAA10164@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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> > - A better image format. The DIB (.BMP) format is relatively easy to > > work with, but a 320x200x8 image runs the best part of 64k, which is > > slow to load from floppy and wastes valuable core. > > How about GIF? Sure. Do you have a compact decoder? I'm more than aware of the various formats around; as I said the *only* reason I used DIB was that parsing it is so simple that even the Windows weenies can do it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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