I've been wondering about this for a while now, is there a way to read resources (*.res) without using the VCL classes? I cleaned up my demosystem today, and I found out that it would save me 20-25kb to do the resource stuff without the VCL, and since I'm doing 64kb's, thats a lot.. An alternative way of including MIDI files in a tight way would also be much appriciated..