Ok, this was NOT made by me. This was made by ytivarg on the Atari Fourms. I posted this for a reason. I just realized my computer was lagging while running NFS Addons. I just found out why. I know Mike has updated the site, but this might make it run even faster? Also, some people may be using dial-up, which sometimes lags. Below the line is all made by ytivarg. Also,
Quote from: RemkoSo while contributions are of course welcome, there's no real need to 'flood', thanks. ;)
Oh, and while we're on the subject people, please remember: Jpegs only please... sending in Tga or Bmp files may cause your pictures to be added a lot later, since we have to convert them by hand and re-upload, etc. and we don't always have time to do that...
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Here's an easy comparison, the image posted below is a pretty generic shot showing some detail. This could be any image in any park across this forum:
(http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/914/samplecm4dp8.th.jpg) (http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=samplecm4dp8.jpg)
Now, the download sizes:
This image as a BMP: 2.25 Mb
This image as a PNG: 1.29 Mb
This image as a GIF: 455kb
This image as a JPG: 205kbIt's pretty obvious that the JPG will be seen by more people, and much faster.
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I know a few people I've mentioned it to had no idea that this occured... so that's why I'm making a public post about it here. Please, don't cut off a chunk of the community from viewing your work. JPG's get the job done just as well, and load a hundred times faster.
Thank you.
"Friends don't let friends post PNG's... or BMP's" :p
(edited for grammar)