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

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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

#1416 — Announcing: the Release of the Best Apple IIe Graphics Converter on the Planet and in History!

Seriously.

http://www.appleoldies.ca/bmp2dhr/

Beta - First Release Candidate

MS-DOS Version not updated yet! 

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#1418

"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> wrote in 
message news:m79h5a$9i5$1@speranza.aioe.org... 
> Seriously. 
> 
> http://www.appleoldies.ca/bmp2dhr/ 

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

Bill, please fix this link. It still says 'bmp2hr.zip' 

Thank you, 

Bill Garber - I love my 
C1 D0 D0 CC C5 A0 C9 C9 C7 D3 
http://www.sepa-electronics.com 

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#1419

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
>Bill, please fix this link. It still says 'bmp2hr.zip'

So how do you like the program?

Bill

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#1420

"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> wrote in message 
news:m7ako2$313$1@speranza.aioe.org... 
> "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote: 
>>Bill, please fix this link. It still says 'bmp2hr.zip' 
> 
> So how do you like the program? 
> 
> Bill 

That's another point, it would be nice if I could get 
it to work.  I see the window open and immediately it 
closes.  I don't get to do anything with it.  

I'll try going to the Command window first and type 
it in.  That just occurred to me that it must be an 
command line program. 

Bill Garber - I love my 
C1 D0 D0 CC C5 A0 C9 C9 C7 D3 
http://www.sepa-electronics.com 

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#1421

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:Wdudndf7r4DsQwXJnZ2dnUVZ7tSdnZ2d@giganews.com... 
> 
> "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> wrote in message 
> news:m7ako2$313$1@speranza.aioe.org... 
>> "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote: 
>>>Bill, please fix this link. It still says 'bmp2hr.zip' 
>> 
>> So how do you like the program? 
>> 
>> Bill 
> 
> That's another point, it would be nice if I could get 
> it to work.  I see the window open and immediately it 
> closes.  I don't get to do anything with it.  
> 
> I'll try going to the Command window first and type 
> it in.  That just occurred to me that it must be an 
> command line program. 

Ok, now that I've gotten it to work, it worked.  

Only I converted 'rwizard.bmp' so I don't really know 
how I like it until I have a BMP that I want to use 
over on the //e or IIgs.  I have some that I would 
like to see on the IIgs, but I have so much going on 
right now.  Everything must have a purpose Neo, so 
it may be a while before I do anything with B2D.exe 
seriously. 

Otherwise, I do like it. I'll like it more when it 
works in the GUI.   8>) 

Bill Garber - I love my 
C1 D0 D0 CC C5 A0 C9 C9 C7 D3 
http://www.sepa-electronics.com 

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#1422

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
>I'll like it more when it works in the GUI.   8>)

If you and I live that long:)

Bill

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#1423

"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> wrote in message 
news:m7aocc$9ed$1@speranza.aioe.org... 
> "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote: 
>>I'll like it more when it works in the GUI.   8>) 
> 
> If you and I live that long:) 
> 
> Bill 

I'm betting that I'll last until next Friday.  LOL 

Bill Garber - I love my 
C1 D0 D0 CC C5 A0 C9 C9 C7 D3 
http://www.sepa-electronics.com 

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#1424

"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> writes:

> Seriously.
>
> http://www.appleoldies.ca/bmp2dhr/
>
> Beta - First Release Candidate
>
> MS-DOS Version not updated yet! 

That is impressive!  Looks better than I thought DHGR could look.  Even
HGR looks better than I would have guessed possible.

--
Jerry    awanderin at gmail dot com

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#1425

"awanderin" <awanderin@gmail.com> wrote:
>That is impressive!  Looks better than I thought DHGR could look.  Even HGR 
>looks better than I would have guessed possible.

Thanks for the feedback and the compliment Jerry. Sheldon Simms AppleWin 
NTSC makes a cool presentation and his conversion palettes also help a great 
deal to make this look good:)

Interesting how Apple Computer witheld dithering technology and 
capitalization of composite video.

Bill

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#1433

"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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#1489

Bmp2DHR has been updated with my latest changes.

Win32 version complete with source: 
http://www.appleoldies.ca/cc65/programs/dhgr/bmp2dhr.zip

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

Bmp2DHR converts Bitmapped Graphics Files to Apple II Double Hi-Res, Hi-Res, 
and Double Lo-Res Format.

Full-Screen and Partial Screen output and dithered and non-dithered output 
are supported.

Bill 

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