ORIC HIRES screen paint program?

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ORIC HIRES screen paint program?

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As I'm "allergic" to anything windows, or "install" and run this exe, I like playing with "Unix"y-command line tools, and if anything needs to be graphical, it's in a web-browser, single html-file.

I first just intended to make a simple HIRES-screen viewer, and incidentily it does anything but that, at the moment (?).

However, it displays an array of bytes, so just need a way to import them ;-)

Anyway, depending on how you see it; ORIC has 8 colors and it should be easy to draw ;-)

Obviously, as can be seen from the picture, I"m not an graphical artist...

Is there any current cross-dev viewer/editor of hires screen that runs on the web?

In this one I experiement with features like "any color", and "spray 1-5-10-25-50%" various sizes "brushes" or "spray cans" if you will.

But it strikes me, if you don't need pixel accurate/precision graphics, and not perfectly aligned/linear colors may be less problematic than initially though?

Anyway, thoughts?
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Impressive ideas!
But it strikes me, if you don't need pixel accurate/precision graphics, and not perfectly aligned/linear colors may be less problematic than initially though?
I think that the Oric 'problem' enforces a certain aesthetic. For every colour and pixel attribute, the reverse bit can be set. Plan this and AIC together, and you can get aesthetically pleasing results.

Your web-app looks like a lot of fun - I hope you will support importing from #A000 to #BF3F ..
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Added:
- load a hires tap file
- save a hires tap file (for some reason gets hires.tap.txt name, I think the browser misbehaves...)
- textual commands

Playing with reading any web-image, stretching it and then make it oric format, but as we know, pict-conv are complicated beasts? Also, running into issues with CORS (unless it's a local image). Maybe need to use file api for this too. Hmmm.
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Yes pict-conv is quite impressive in what it does. But I'm not using windows so generally avoid OSDK, or exe-files.
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Well, you don't have to run it. You could also look at the code and observe the different image-conversion processes it applies to exploit the Oric's attribute system .. there are some real gems in the source code.

See also, the great colorimetric processes in PictOric - which you might find worthy of a port to javascript:

https://github.com/Samuel-DEVULDER/PictOric

https://github.com/Samuel-DEVULDER/Pict ... ctOric.lua
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jsk wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 6:56 pm Yes pict-conv is quite impressive in what it does. But I'm not using windows so generally avoid OSDK, or exe-files.
As we already explained in another topic in answer to you, it is perfectly possible to compile OSDK tools including pict-conv from source to a Linux version.
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