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Some Frequently Asked Questions
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Q1.) Why does it give me an SDL display error?
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A1). Tom Bombem runs by default in a 320x200x16bpp display. It may
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not work if you have an 8, 24, or 32bpp display. This can
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be fixed, it just hasn't yet.
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Q2.) Why is the picture 320x200 anyway?
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A2). Tom Bombem is internally rendered at 320x200 and 256colors.
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This is because the original game was for dos VGA Bios mode
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0x13, which was MCGA 320x200 mode. Why did I use this mode?
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Because it was a nice linear 64kB graphics display, and I had
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sample code from the PCGPE.
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Q3). What are paintpro graphics? Are these any relation to a commercial
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graphics package known as PaintPro(TM)?
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A3). No. A long time ago I made my own graphics program. I called it
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(with much originality) "paintprogram.pas", but because of the wonders
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of MS-DOS it was truncated to "paintpro.pas". I still referred to
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it as paintprogram, but my friends Jeff and John [who used it to
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make graphics for Basic and C respectively] referred to it as paintpro
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and the name stuck.
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I invented the format myself, originally as a text output and later
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as a binary. I "invented" RLE [Run Length Encoding] before I knew
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what it was. In the end, it is very [and quite accidentally]
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similar to the PCX graphics format. All this because I couldn't
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find source code for common file formats. Thank goodness for
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the internet and the GPL.
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See http://..... for more info.
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