First tests using the ConvImgCPC + minor adjustments graphics ... :)

[rexbeng]

I have to say, really; who needs CPC+ now? ^_^

Well, I know someone who'd take the oportunity and say 'I had told you so' 

rb

[arnoldemu]

Btw.: Is here anyone, who could do a scrolling image of 2 overscan pictures?

I worked out code that would do just that. Do these pictures share a palette?

[TFM]

Btw.: Is here anyone, who could do a scrolling image of 2 overscan pictures?

Why two, when you can use four of them ;-)




See here:

[Devilmarkus]

I worked out code that would do just that. Do these pictures share a palette?

Of course they share the same palette

Need them as .SCR (Start: &200, length 32k) or is .PNG ok?

[Devilmarkus]

I'm sorry, I just can not do without the zoom ... 

Then you are definitively using the wrong GFX app

[Devilmarkus]

Testing the integrated flipscreen code of JavaCPC Paint:

When you create flipscreens with JavaCPC Paint, you can load the screens to &C000 and &4000 and do CALL &C7D0 to set mode and palette and then a CALL &E7D0 to flip both screens.

Result:

[attachimg=2]

(I took a screenshot with deinterlace filter active, of course on the real machine it flickers slightly, but it's not for CPC+!!!)

Sadly the flip routine only works properly on CRTC 0 type...

Here's the DSK file: (RUN"SMURF")

[redbox]

Sadly the flip routine only works properly on CRTC 0

Lol, you sound like Vanity.

Codeurs francais sont les meilleurs, mais seulement si vous avez CRTC 0 ou 1. Autrement, les codeurs espagnols sont les meilleurs

[Mr. DVG]

16 colors - Mode 0 - Dithering - No Zoom...

[TFM]

Lol, you sound like Vanity.

Codeurs francais sont les meilleurs, mais seulement si vous avez CRTC 0 ou 1. Autrement, les codeurs espagnols sont les meilleurs

Aber mit den Deutsch-Österreichischen Codern können sie alle nicht mithalten, denn bei uns läuft's auf allen CRTCs - ist doch eh klar.    Oiso Servus mitanander. 

[redbox]

Ja, BASIC arbeiten auf allen CRTC

[TFM]

Da bist Du ja auch der Experte 

[Bryce]

Hör auf! Ihr seid beide Trolls!

Arrêt! Vous êtes les deux trolls!

Give it up! You're both trolls!



Bryce.

[TFM]

You are just pissed off because we didn't write in Irish    And Redbox is surely a good programmer, maybe not only in BASIC though. His last game runs smooth and fluently. Now back to trolling: I didn't talk about the color schemes    la la la 

[ZbyniuR]

Some result of my playing by ConvImgCPC. Over 40 pictures. Start by  run"0   
For start pictures are changing every 8 second. Any key stop slideshow and now waiting for any key. Key {S} return to slideshow.
Some example beneath. Give me sign which pictures you like it.

[Ast]

it seems fine... Cpc Old or Cpc Plus ?

[CraigsBar]

it seems fine... Cpc Old or Cpc Plus ?

I would guess plus.... But the i noticed the yellow skin so perhaps CPC.

[Carnivius]

Looks like regular CPC to me.  But if it looks like it's Plus to anyone then that just shows off the versatility of the original CPC palette.

[ZbyniuR]

All these pictures are made for old CPC standard palette.
The only trick is dithering.

[Ast]

What do you think about making the same pictures in fullscreen ? That would be crazyyyyyyyyyy !

[ZbyniuR]

It's true that fullscreens make better impression, but two things that discourage me.
1. On ordinary disk fits only 5 fullscreen, and simple pictures 3 times more.
2. Sometimes I correct pixels in ArtStudio, but I don't have convenient tool for fullscreens.

I don't know popular format to compresses fullscreens. Mass storage is still a rarity. Even DD disk drive not everyone has. But yeah, I think about it.

I think more about writing a better image browser for CPC. Which itself recognizes what kind images are on disk and can display: CSI, SCR compressed and 17K without PAL, and fullscreens. And that allows you to switch between slideshow and select individual files by arrow keys.

No rush, only 5 persons took DSK in ZIPs from previous page.

[CraigsBar]

I sm going to investigate how to display a converted overscan image later. My chuckie egg cart would benefit from overscan.

[ZbyniuR]

To display Fullscreen 32K type:

10 OPENOUT"d":MEMORY &1FF:LOAD"name.scr":CALL &811

Unfortunate with compressed version of this files, such method doesn't work.
So low start address left space for only one line of Basic.

I have to find way to put fullscreen on end of block &0000-&7FFF, so it should left few KB for Basic. And I need some way to compress overscans, to hold 10 fullscreen on 178K dsk.

[CraigsBar]

To display Fullscreen 32K type:

10 OPENOUT"d":MEMORY &1FF:LOAD"name.scr":CALL &811

Unfortunate with compressed version of this files, such method doesn't work.
So low start address left space for only one line of Basic.

I have to find way to put fullscreen on end of block &0000-&7FFF, so it should left few KB for Basic. And I need some way to compress overscans, to hold 10 fullscreen on 178K dsk.

I tried that. It would work once, and then corrupt the scr file and never work again. The compressed version works fine however and my chuckie egg cart has a lovely overscan plus palette loading screen followed by the game. All working perfectly except.... It's not gx4000 friendly because the screen needs space to be pressed to close it. I cannot as if yet find how to remap this to fire or a timer.

[Gryzor]

Well, been a while since we last saw Georgia Salpa...

[ZbyniuR]

Ast asked me about FullScreens...
Here you are. Five DSK with 5 pictures on each.   run"0   I hope you like it.

I have more, and it's sooo hard to choose. I still don't have method to put more Overscans on DSK. I'm quite busy, and lazy to figure out this.
But next time maybe I show you some pictures from Atari 8bit scene. Most of them are 160x240 in 32 colors from 256 palette, wide pixels like Mode 0. They look good in Plus palette, but not so ease to find right colors on old CPC.