Image Formats

[Lionel Pinkhard <lionelpi@mweb.co.za>]

Hi,

Can somebody tell me about a quick routine to convert a 256-color bitmap (or other common format) into a raw data file? What I mean by raw data file, is that it doesn't include anything like the resolution of the file, and colors, and everything, it automatically assumes that it's 320x200x256 and uses a predetermined palette (which I already created in a file called 'palette.dat', and written a routine to set it up). All it should contain is the exact data that should be sent to the video card. The first byte of the file should be the start of the video memory at a000:0000. If anybody knows of a better way to do this, I would appreciate it.

Lionel

P.s. I think I can tell my game how to read from the raw data file, I just don't know how to read the bitmap file and write it to the raw data file, since I no almost nothing about bitmaps - except that you can use GIMP to create them, etc. :-)
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