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From: antony.arciuolo@mail.trincoll.edu (Antony Arciuolo)
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: I can't stand it anymore!
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 03:14:39 GMT
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For the longest time I tried to load a TIM picture and printf its
properties to the console. I always get noise, not proper data. I was
so thankful when I stripped the code down to nothing but the loading
code. Now I'm trying to put other code back in, and I finally think I
figured out what was wrong... It seems that the allocation of all
those ordering tables is OVERWRITING the data of the TIM files! I
can't come up with any other explanation!

I load the code at 0x80090000,
then a 4-bit TIM at 0x800A0000,
then a 8-bit TIM at 0x800B0000,
then a 24-bit TIM at 0x800C0000 

and it doesn't work.

I comment out the global variables for the ordering tables stuff and
it does work. I leave the code in, but

I load a 4-bit TIM at 0x80090000,
then a 8-bit TIM at 0x800A0000,
then a 24-bit TIM at 0x800B0000 
then the code at0x800D0000.

and it works, kind of (it freezes 1/2-way through the code).

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG?!

I will ask the stupid question. How do you load files into main memory
and prevent them from being overwritten by the code allocating memory?