Date   : Wed, 04 Dec 2002 12:00:44 +0000
From   : "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@...>
Subject: Re: DIGITAL DOMESDAY BOOK GETS NEW LIFE

* Richard Gellman (splodge@...) wrote:
> Confession time.
> 
> There's a reason I havent done much work on BeebEm lately....
> 
> I'm sure Paul won't mind if I admit that I've been doing (most of) the
> programming work for this project :)

And the results are very impressive!

Dave

P.S. My gut feeling is that there is a factor of 4 to be had in lossless
compression of those images (at least); and I bet there is enough
compression potential for very tightly controlled lossy compression to
get the whole lot onto a DVD ROM.

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