It’s been a hard day’s night And I’ve been working like a dog…

oh. Some coding news here. Primera is now v0.1.42a

• Now Primera seems able to handle a very large number of avatars (1200+ avatars and counting). It is still veeeery slow but at last is not making my machine explode anymore. There are still some glitches about avatar logout detection but i’ll solve this. I am currently studying to speed up the iso engine.
• I’ve greatly reduced main graphics size by converting all gif files used for sprites into png ones (64 colors). Here goes a detailed ‘lifting’ table:
  

  File name	Description	Old size (bytes)	New size (bytes)
  iso_natura	Nature objects (trees, plants, flowes, etc.)	194694	78595
  iso_objects	World Objects (bottles, books, etc.)	163138	57702
  iso_world	iso_world (walls, etc.)	432900	96264
  av0	av0 (avatars)	616363	231621
  Total size		1407095	464182

  This mod allows faster loading during preload phase, in addition in-game scroll speed is now a little faster.