From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 7 04:37:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA21292 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 04:37:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp3.portal.net.au [202.12.71.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA21273 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 04:36:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA00238; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 21:49:29 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801071119.VAA00238@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Kazutaka YOKOTA cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 1998 18:47:24 +0900." <199801070947.SAA10164@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 21:49:28 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > - 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. \\