Re: Game comments-thanks!

From: Fred Sloniker <lazuli_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:22:34 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 22 Feb 1995, Wallis, Mike wrote:

> Folks, thanks for the Sonic game comments. We're going to be moving
> buildings over the next couple of days, so I won't have access to e-mail,
> but keep the Sonic-chatter coming! :)

Quick request for when you get back: the Sega FTP site (ftp.segaoa.com)
has a collection of GIFs of game covers, screenshots, et cetera of Sonic
stuff. My gripe, when I was poking around there, was the blurriness of
the screenshots; they appear to have been photographed, then scanned in.
Considering you (by which I mean Sega) should have direct access to the
data used to construct any given screen in a Sega game, I expect it would
be possible to build the GIFs digitally; this would not only give
pixel-perfect results but also smaller files (64-color computer pictures
compress a lot better than 256-color dithered scans). Pass this on to
the QA people for the FTP site, please?

Also (I hate to be a burden, but you're the only Sega presence I know of
on the Net) would it be possible to get some little clipart things of
Tails from the game, specifically the animbits of him helifoxing? I was
trying to build a little icon of the guy, but my tracing-paper skills are
right up there with Sonic's ability to swim... (:3

                                ---Fred M. Sloniker, stressed undergrad
                                   L. Lazuli R'kamos, FurryMUCKer
                                   lazuli_at_u.washington.edu

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Received on Thu Feb 23 1995 - 20:22:33 PST