From: Damian Yerrick <DELCAPSyerricde AT pineight DOT 8mSOFTWARE DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Advice needed: displaying many pcx images for emulator front end
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:38:41 GMT
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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 17:11:21 +0600,
"Kalum Somaratna" <kalum AT ToughGuy DOT net> wrote:

> On 27 Oct 99, at 23:00, Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> > Organize your games into categories (tris, pac, space-shooter,
> > gun-shooter, brick-and-ball, one-on-one fighting, final fighting,
> > etc.). Store each category's 160x120x8 bit snaps in a datafile. The
> > user expects a second or two of loading when switching categories.

It happens even on the GayStation.

> Hi Damian, 
> 	Once the games are arranged into categories as you suggest, 
> wouldn't it be easier to load the user selected category completely 
> into memory (Faster access, and if there isn't enough memory 
> available the OS(CWSDPMI or Sindows) can page it). 

That's what I meant. Load each datafile when you need it, and unload
it when the user switches to another category.
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