On Nov 20, 2003, at 12:06 am, Matt Jordan wrote:
On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 06:08 PM, Andrew wrote:
I found Decor by a search on Google and put it on my Duo 280c. Works great! Takes about 4 seconds to load the background with a 16M, 800x600 JPEG, so an 8-bit JPEG should probably take just as long or less on an earlier 68k machine.
I had planned to use an 8-bit (optimized palette) PICT image. Would this be supported (and load much faster)? I made a 640x480 startup screen for my Mac TV using this method and it loads instantly. I just want something that has no noticeable lag (which is why I am willing to make my own PICTs).
Half the lag with JPEGS is they are compressed and it takes older Macs an age to decompress them. PICTs are not (or at least not as well) compressed and thus should load faster. That said there is a lot less logical power involved in displaying 256 colour images anyway.
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