On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:34:36PM -0600, William Ferrell wrote: > On 4/17/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah... as I say, I think that's why they didn't allow people to > > actually put it on as text: that would be *much* easier to extract. > > > > But if you run your X server at 640x480, full screen, things ought to > > work out just fine -- and quite a bit faster. > > Actually I think there's a less nefarious reason behind this (occam's > razor, and all that) -- producing a graphics chip with far less > computing horsepower and fewer features than an 8-bit NES is *way* > cheaper than one that would have to do the graphics stuff, handle > timing, *and* draw actual letters.
You think? Hmm... Never really considered it. I think it might have been a push; when did CD+G hit? > You'd have to offer up different fonts, styles, etc., and send strings > and timing info along to the chip instead of simple graphic > instructions. The way it's done now, you can use whatever visual style > you like as long as it can fit in the low-bandwidth constraints of the > CD+G format. Yeah, but is that effect, or cause? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Pykaraoke-discuss mailing list Pykaraoke-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pykaraoke-discuss
