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From: Craig Graham <c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: General question.
Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 11:26:26 +0100
Organization: Intelligent Research
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<SNIP : Loads of complex kludges deleted>

Why not just buy an Action Replay / Gameshark, and use the ARS
fileserver library (for GNU or CodeWarrior) to load the files from the
PC using standard file access

    void LoadTimFile(char *fname, long length)
    {
        long handle=open(fname,O_RDONLY);
        char *buf=(char*)malloc(length);

        read(handle,buf,length);

        close(handle);

        // Load the TIM into VRAM here

        free(buf);
    }

The open/read/close are redirected by the ARS library to load
from the fileserver program running on the PC (via the Action Replay
cartridge, parallel connection: 2Mb/s download speed). You'll get faster
downloads, and can load in more data whenever you want. And you
don't have to pre-allocate any  memory at all....

Craig.
(who wrote ARS for GNU & CodeWarrior)