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- Fri Apr 14, 2017 9:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice Hires screens
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18583
Re: Nice Hires screens
Well it seems the most complex Hires screens (thus unefficient compression) take less than 5 seconds to load. If you plan to load small quantites of data, I prefer to rely on the worst case. 8KB in 5 seconds, that's about 1,5KB per second (of useful information, neglecting start / stop bits) (I remo...
- Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice Hires screens
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18583
Re: Nice Hires screens
My idea is more like something where you read a bunch of data as fast as you can, in a temporary buffer, then run some code that do something with the data, then continue loading. Obviously that means that the tape contains blank sections, which have to be at least as long as it take to process the...
- Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:31 pm
- Forum: Painting tricks
- Topic: Any easy way to fill certain (closed) area of HIRES screen?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 41867
Re: Any easy way to fill certain (closed) area of HIRES screen?
Thanks! I see, same thing that happened with my little site when Geocities went down and I didn't have the nerve to set it up again - except my site didn't have any interesting information
- Fri Apr 14, 2017 5:25 am
- Forum: Painting tricks
- Topic: Any easy way to fill certain (closed) area of HIRES screen?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 41867
Re: Any easy way to fill certain (closed) area of HIRES screen?
Thanks!
Do you know of any particular reason why the site went offline?
Do you know of any particular reason why the site went offline?
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 8:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice Hires screens
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18583
Re: Nice Hires screens
About Bad Apple, being in black and white only would allow us to store only 6 bits instead of 8. Removing the RLE compression would allow a constant framerate. But having enough speed for several frames per second seems impossible to me. Loading something compressed then uncompressing it seems impos...
- Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice Hires screens
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18583
Re: Nice Hires screens
Thanks ! I don't know Bad Apple, do you have a link? The slideshow has a very small pause between each screen (something like half a second), and of course could be faster if only half a screen is loaded for instance. The problem is that according to the compression, the framerate could not be const...
- Sun Apr 09, 2017 11:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice Hires screens
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18583
- Sun Apr 09, 2017 7:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice Hires screens
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18583
Re: Nice Hires screens
Well it seems to work fine this time, thanks again
- Sun Apr 09, 2017 6:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice Hires screens
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18583
Re: Nice Hires screens
Thanks for the fast reply!
I manually corrected the addresses but will give a try indeed, and let you know.
I manually corrected the addresses but will give a try indeed, and let you know.
- Sun Apr 09, 2017 3:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice Hires screens
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18583
Re: Nice Hires screens
I think there's a small bug though. It seems Pictconv produces a header going from A000 to BF40 for a Hires screen, which is 1 byte too much (should stop at BF3F). This prevented the next screen to load with my fast routines, as it used the 1st data bytes to complete the previous loading I guess. Ap...
- Sat Apr 08, 2017 6:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice Hires screens
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18583
Re: Nice Hires screens
Thanks, converting the screens back with the -f1 option seems to work like a charm
- Sat Apr 08, 2017 11:36 am
- Forum: Painting tricks
- Topic: pipi.exe anyone ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8577
Re: pipi.exe anyone ?
Thanks! Cool, I wasn't aware of this, having not tested Pictconv yet.
Good news, a useful post for me, finally
Good news, a useful post for me, finally
- Sat Apr 08, 2017 8:54 am
- Forum: Painting tricks
- Topic: pipi.exe anyone ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8577
Re: pipi.exe anyone ?
Ok got it, it seems it required to be launched in its "The Pimp" environment...
Sorry for the useless topic.
Sorry for the useless topic.
- Sat Apr 08, 2017 8:46 am
- Forum: Painting tricks
- Topic: pipi.exe anyone ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8577
pipi.exe anyone ?
Hi, Anyone ever succeded using libpipi, I mean the program pipi.exe? There is zero doc for it and when I try to convert a BMP image (like in their command line examples), all I get is "could not load '1989.bmp' ". (reason is I'd like to try both pictconv and libpipi to compare the results)...
- Sat Apr 08, 2017 6:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice Hires screens
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18583
Nice Hires screens
Hi all, I'm going to an Atari meeting in France next Saturday: AC 2017 - for those interested, you can still subscribe until tomorrow evening. http://www.yaronet.com/topics/187724-ac-2017-15-16-avril-communique A few Oricians should be there. I'll probably bring an Atmos there. I plan to demo my fas...