As part of the 80-40-20 meter transceiver, we thought it would be nice to have a splashing start-up screen. Well, we got one, a animated globe. But if the rest of the program will fit in the remaining 40 Kbytes of the Atmega128 that will be the question. If not, a single, not moving globe will do. Animated_globe.gif is taken as the source. With Karlis Blumentals www.blumentals.net this gif-picture is brought down to 30 stand-alone BMP-pictures. Size 73 x 73 pixels. And with the LCD Converter from www.mcselec.com these BMP’s are turned into DATA-lines. We have noticed that the LCD_EPSON.LBX, the library to drive the LCD-screen (Nokia 6100 type) has some problems crossing the 64 kBytes boundry of the Atmega128. Pictures got blurred, so we used the graphical subroutines from www.display3000.com Real animated, but we had to offer 80 Kbytes just for a nice start-up screen. At my homepage at http://members.home.nl/bzijlstra I will publish the code so far. Including the source for the animated globe in Bascom-AVR..
