Re: Multimedia demos

[Matt Ion <soundy -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM>]

On Thu, 5 Jun 1997 14:25:39 -0700, The Tech Writer wrote:

>> If you create a demo at 1280 x 1024, for instance, an audience displaying
>> that resolution will be able to view that demo as you intended for it to be
>> viewed. But audiences with monitors displaying lower resolutions, say
>> 800x600, will view a distorted demo.
>
>The best way that I've found to determine what size to make the demo
>(resolution) is to ask the developers what the minimum requirements are
>for screen resolution to run the program. I always opt to put the
>graphics in as 16-color (2-bit?), as this dramatically decreases the
>executable's size, and it'll display just fine on anybody's system.

Where'd you learn to do binary math?  Aren't they teaching it in the
third grade anymore? <evil grin>

16-color = 4-bit depth (2^4)
256-color = 8-bit (2^8)
64k-color = 16-bit (2^16)
16M-color = 24-bit (2^24)


 Your friend and mine,
 Matt
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