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Re: Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History!

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"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> wrote:
 >Beta - First Release Candidate
>MS-DOS Version not updated yet!

I have updated both the Win32 (gcc) and MS-DOS distribution with the latest 
Bmp2DHR source and binaries:

Download the latest versions at the following links:

Win32 and MinGW (gcc) build environment:

http://www.appleoldies.ca/cc65/programs/dhgr/bmp2dhr.zip

MS-DOS Version

http://www.appleoldies.ca/cc65/programs/dhgr/bmp2dhrMSDOS.zip

The documentation is out of synch with the latest changes especially the 
pictures of example HGR output which has improved greatly. In most cases 
this affects nothing, but the changes fix coding errors and improve output.

Major improvements are as follows:

1. VBMP output now includes HGR and DHGR Color and Monochrome output.

2. HGR output was mapping black pixels to what should have been violet. This 
resulted in dark areas and dirty dithering on some images so now works 
properly.

For HGR output there are 2 palettes that produce good results for viewing in 
AppleWin NTSC. These correspond to two command options:

hgr - uses Sheldon Simms tohgr DHGR palette colors for conversion. tends to 
be too green on some images.
tgr - uses Sheldon Simms tohgr HGR palette colors for conversion. very nice 
for blues on some images but greens tend to go red on others.

3. Conversion for RGB displays and the Apple IIgs is inferior due to display 
and hardware limitations. This is not something that can be fixed. It is a 
historical fact. However, by using RGB palettes for conversion, or palettes 
like the pseudo-palette placeholder which is a mean average of the DHGR RGB 
values from Super Convert combined with Sheldon Simms tohgr DHGR RGB values, 
better conversions are available for the IIgs and RGB displays for some 
images.

4. The final release of version 1 will be 1.1 and I will continue to comb 
through the source code and documentation to make sure everything is working 
as expected and is doucmented properly in the end.

Bill Buckels

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Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History! "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-12-22 10:33 -0600
  Re: Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History! "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> - 2014-12-22 20:48 -0500
    Re: Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History! "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-12-22 20:40 -0600
      Re: Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History! "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> - 2014-12-22 22:15 -0500
        Re: Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History! "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> - 2014-12-22 22:31 -0500
          Re: Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History! "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-12-22 21:43 -0600
            Re: Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History! "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> - 2014-12-22 23:26 -0500
  Re: Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History! awanderin <awanderin@gmail.com> - 2014-12-22 23:01 -0700
    Re: Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History! "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-12-23 05:34 -0600
  Re: Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History! "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-12-29 09:16 -0600
  Re: Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History! "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2015-01-20 05:58 -0600

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