Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "George Bain" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics Subject: Re: Static backgrounds Date: 24 Aug 1998 11:15:37 GMT Organization: SCEE Lines: 26 Message-ID: <01bdceed$30a78d60$f2e832a2@gbain.wav.scee.sony.co.uk> References: <35e075a6.464643@news.playstation.co.uk> <35E09A8E.AD6@manc.u-net.com> <35e112ee.408085@news.playstation.co.uk> <35E14697.7A14@mdx.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailgate.scee.sony.co.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Hi Rob, Why not convert the TIM to 8-bit to free up some VRAM? I would assume your code is so awesome and compact that you have plenty of VRAM to use :) George Robert Swan wrote in article <35E14697.7A14@mdx.ac.uk>... > 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 >