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From: philip gooch <philg@easynet.co.uk>
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Subject: Problems with TimView
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 14:06:22 -0700
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Hi All

Just got my Net Yaroze last week!

I'm having problems using TimView (the Yaroze program for checking that 
your bitmaps have converted to TIM correctly) to display large images on 
the TV screen.

I've used TimUtil to convert a 64 * 64 4 bit image to TIM and it displays 
fine on the Yaroze with TimView (though it looks about half the size it 
should), and I've converted a 320 * 240 8 bit image (making sure that it 
is correctly aligned and not clashing with the double buffer - i.e has an 
image org of 320, 0 and a CLUT org of 480, 0) but this larger image will 
not display correctly with TimView.

Only the top left hand quarter of the image is shown on screen and it is 
stretched out vertically and squashed horizontally.

I'm not at the stage of writing code to display it onscreen myself, but I 
wondered if I'm doing something wrong with TimUtil, or maybe TimView has 
a limit on the size of images it can display. If I resize my original 320 
*240 image in Photoshop to 160 * 120 and reconvert to TIM it displays 
fine in TimUtil (but again, looks about half the size it should).

Does TimView use high-res (640 * 480) mode? That would explain why the 
images look too small on the TV screen. But what could be causing the 320 
* 240 image to display incorrectly?

Cheers

Phil
philg@easynet.co.uk