load sprites from filesystem

[ShotgunNinja]

Wow, this thread goes over a lot of information about things which aren't apparent to a lot of beginning users. Could I recommend making this sticky, or recombining the information in this thread into a sticky thread?

At least the following info should be preserved:
- The IRC channel link
- The links to DMA information
- The info about the differences between main RAM and VRAM
- The code samples (ie. the better GRF_Decompress)
- The info about caching, invalidation, and flushing
- Info about GRIT

[coreyh2]

http://tank.windwireless.net/~crsntlvs/dmalog.txt

this has some more information in it.