Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Robert Swan Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics Subject: Re: Static backgrounds Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:55:19 +0100 Organization: I wish! Lines: 15 Message-ID: <35E14697.7A14@mdx.ac.uk> References: <35e075a6.464643@news.playstation.co.uk> <35E09A8E.AD6@manc.u-net.com> <35e112ee.408085@news.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: nova.mdx.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4u) Richard Cutting wrote: > That bloody NY title screen is the bain of my life as well due to the > amount of vram that it occupies. One thing I'd considered was writing > some compression/decompression software to compress the TIM and then > decompress it on the NY later when I want to use it. Has anyone else > played with this sort of approach ? No, but I have considered not putting the damn thing in as its just one huge pain in the arse... couldnt we just replicate the text that is on there? Please, Sony? If you dont, I threaten to do some really ugly things to the graphics on screen. Rob