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> >Do you mean to have compressed bitmaps in memory ? In which
> >case the blit function would decompress little chunks on the
> >fly while drawing ?
>
> Exactly. Yes, this would be slow, but for a level backdrop,
This would go hand in hand with memory PACKFILEs. So far, we
would have disk PACKFILEs, network PACKFILEs, memory PACKFILEs.
This would elegantly solve the issue of adding API entries.
Everything would read and write from a PACKFILE.
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Vincent Penquerc'h
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