Re: [SerialICE] r80 - trunk/qemu-0.11.0

[Maciej Pijanka]

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> On 12/2/09 11:59 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> > This is awsome :-)
> > I can't wait to try it out.
> >
> > It seems to be a rather large (file size) banner though. Any way to scale it
> > down a bit?
> >
> > Thanks - Joe
>
> Not so easily...
>
> I made the graphics 320x200, so it's around 230KiB raw image data.
>
> Options:
> use a compressed format.. This would mean adding a (i.e. JPG)
>
> decompressor to Qemu..
>    Either by requiring to link against libjpeg, or by adding a jpg
> decompressor in an extra file.
> load the PPM file from the filesystem instead of including it in the
>
> source. Doesn't make it
>   smaller but then it's not possible to make a single diff against the
> Qemu source tree anymore.
> paint something funky with a nice and small algorithm. Suggestions?

Maybe fractal with simple SerialICE drawn on it?
(even simple fractal)

not even updating, or something, or some game of life would be an option?