EE183ers,
        In http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee183/bmp2coe/, there is an
example .bmp and .coe file that could be used to initialize a single 4Kb
BRAM.  Note that you need to save the .bmp in 24bit bmp format.  The
command to generate the .coe is "bmp2coe.exe mono_in_24.bmp
mono_in_24.coe"
        This could be extended to a larger size (ie, 128x128) if you
wanted to use 4 BRAMS to store the image.  You could also use another BRAM
if you wanted 2 bit color.  You could then select from 4 colors in the
colormap but they need to be selected to be 24'b00, 24'b01, 24'b10, and
24'b10 so they only use 2 bits when the coe file is created.
        Note that the black and dark blue colors are totally arbitrary and
not related to the color that this image might have on the VGA monitor.
        This could be used to initialize the game state or to show a
background image while the game state is evolving.

        Paul