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illiterate

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is this the right room
« on: September 01, 2008, 07:31:49 am »
for an argument? 

Err..  I mean the right room to discuss developing plug-ins for DF? 

I have an idea for a helper application, doesn't seem to be covered by what's currently available.

I don't want to give away what I'm thinking of doing, but I am wanting to get some information on what code is already available so I'm not re-inventing the wheel. 

Essentially what I'm needing at this point is the capacity to read whatever is currently displaying on the screen.  I see the tools for reading the memory buffer, and may use that, but my goal is to take as little processing power as necessary, while still being able to read the display.  80x25x25FPS (human readable) is about 50kB/s, probably double that because each character has 8 bits of color as well as the ascii code, more than I'd like, but that's what I'm wanting to target.  If I can shave off that by reading memory buffer let me know. 
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Re: is this the right room
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2008, 10:16:43 am »
Youre at the right place, yes. And there exist some tools for reading the memory, check out the memory hacking article on the wiki.  :)
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