Topic, My new image format

  Can you make it so it doens't need SDL.dll?

And try this:

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/6754/orbsold.jpg

  lol...easier for colours I cant tell what colour something is in normal numbers
one thing I noticed in my images is that the file size in bytes is always odd :P

  Hm, Never liked hexadecimals,

  no the colour ID references the stored list of colours in the file
if you open the file in a hex-editor it goes like this:
[1]width(2 bytes)
[2]1 byte and 3 byte colour, or if first byte is 01 then goto 3
[3]1 byte colour ID and 1 byte quantity
so for example:
00 05 00 ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 02 01 01 00 02
the width is 5(00 05)
there are 2 colours 0:ffffff 1:000000
the pattern goes 00 02, 01 01, 00 02
that pattern means use colour ID 0[ffffff] for 2 pixels, then colour I 1[000000] for 1 pixel, then 2 for another 2
putting in that code into a hex editor will actually make a readable file :P

  Colour id? You mean like #FFFFFF

  OK, I misunderstood.
Never mind.

  no wtf is that o.O
this makes images smaller...could be by a LOT depending on the image...

  Is it something like this?
PhotoPearls

  all in a days work :P
it did actually only take a day it was just tweaking parts of it afterwards :D

  wow they are cool

  im working on an image format, it works by making a list of all the colours in the image then making pairs of what colour ID and how many times to use it.
this is the program, it's a self-extracting archive that runs a registry file when done(if you dont permit access to the registry it wont work!)
I have the following images converted:
Leaderboard RedYellowGreenBlue CheckPoints

use this to convert BMP, PNG or TGA files to PLT(you download then drag a file onto it)