From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 7 06:54:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA05346 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 06:54:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (root@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA05336 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 06:54:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perlsta@sunyit.edu) Received: from win95.local.sunyit.edu (brightmn@ppp-36.ts-1.nyc.idt.net [169.132.96.36]) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA16286; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:54:19 GMT Message-Id: <199801071054.KAA16286@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> From: "Alfred Perlstein" To: "Kazutaka YOKOTA" , "Mike Smith" Cc: "Mike Smith" , Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:50:29 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk if you are willing to delay the incorperation of the gif code i have something in one of my books i think it's a mix of C and assembler i hope C... don't totally count on it yet at least until the 20th, if you remind me then i'll see if i can get it to you... -Alfred ---------- > From: Mike Smith > To: Kazutaka YOKOTA > Cc: Mike Smith ; hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... > Date: Wednesday, January 07, 1998 6:19 AM > > > > - 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. \\ > >