Clarence wrote:
>My limited and possibly faulty memory has entries for TI (TI-99 ?) and
>Commodore computers, plus Atari and other video game manufacturers which
>used Bit Mapped Images years before Bill Gates started screwing us.
You are mixing things. AFAIK the BMP format is from Microsoft (probably
from the cooperation with IBM). However a bitmapped image is another thing.
A bitmapped image is an image that contains (possibly compressed)
information about pixels. As a contrast Corel Draw uses vector images (you
do know what a vector is right?), but that doesn't mean that CDW (IIRC
that's the extension) and vector graphics are the same. Most new 3D games
use vectors to construct the images, as opposed to for instance an older
game such as DOOM that uses bitmaps. BMP is just one form of bitmaps, PCX,
JPEG and GIF are others.
//Bernie
