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From: syswerda@bbn.com (Gilbert Syswerda)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Fast put-image-on-screen source
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Date: 7 Dec 90 21:01:53 GMT
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In article <1990Dec4.212838.17692@hod.uit.no> thostr@stud.cs.uit.no (Thomas Strandenaes) writes:

>What I'm looking for today, is some source code
>for Turbo-Pascal (i've got 5.5) to display *any*
>image-format on a VGA (Tandon 512k) - *FAST*.
>With stress on the word fast... I would prefer
>IFF format, but PIC, etc, will do.

The fastest way I know of is to store the images uncompressed on disk and
simply blockread them directly into video memory.

If someone knows of a faster way, I'd be interested in hearing about it.