Search found 2307 matches

by Symoon
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...
by Symoon
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...
by Symoon
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 ;)
by Symoon
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?
by Symoon
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...
by Symoon
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...
by Symoon
Sun Apr 09, 2017 11:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Nice Hires screens
Replies: 18
Views: 18583

Re: Nice Hires screens

by Symoon
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 :)
by Symoon
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.
by Symoon
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...
by Symoon
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 :)
by Symoon
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 ;)
by Symoon
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.
by Symoon
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)...
by Symoon
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...