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Re: New Youtube Videos of Conversions using Double Lo-Res "Minipix"

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<gids.rs@sasktel.net> wrote:
>I was curious to see what kind of graphics could be done with double 
>lo-res, and it started out really good.  Then all of sudden everyone got 
>the measles.

Not sure what you mean but if you don't like the dithered output think of it 
as giving you a template to redraw the screen. You can also do much more 
with DLGR than simply displaying a BSAVE image, but like redrawing the 
screen, no magic converter will do this for you.

I could do alot more with Double Lo-Res but for a variety of reasons I 
parked it there for now. I think you need to consider that the average 
double lo-res user is not capable of using these converters to their current 
potential. There have been 3 cases recently that demonstrate this.

Despite that:

- The A2B converter produces Double Lo-Res Sprites and Game Backgrounds 
sveral screens in size.
- The B2D converter produces Double Lo-Res Screens for Mixed Text and 
Graphics as well as Full-Screens
- My Earlier converters which have been around a couple of years produce 
Fonts etc.

These are supported by library routines in Aztec C65 and cc65. All of this 
is documented. Demos are available.

I am making continual progress in conversions etc. in the other Apple II 
graphics modes and there are more people interested in that especially the 
IIGS SHR stuff, (and so am I), so unless somebody is generally going to do 
something with Double Lo-Res there won';t be any further development unless 
the mood strikes me.

The current state of development is that if someone wants to use a modern 
paint program to actually do some work, these converters of mine will 
provide them with Apple II graphics that they can use in an Apple II 
program, written preferably in C or Assembler from my view.

The examples that I have produced are simply to support the tools that I 
have written and not to entertain but to provide examples of test output. 
The joy for me is in the doing, what anyone else does is up to them. I 
realize that people don't have any more time or patience than I do, so I 
perfectly understand why these converters don't see any use. There are just 
there like anything else.

Bill

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New Youtube Videos of Conversions using Double Lo-Res "Minipix" "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2015-05-12 17:09 -0500
  Re: New Youtube Videos of Conversions using Double Lo-Res "Minipix" gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2015-05-18 18:40 -0700
    Re: New Youtube Videos of Conversions using Double Lo-Res "Minipix" "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> - 2015-05-18 22:26 -0400
    Re: New Youtube Videos of Conversions using Double Lo-Res "Minipix" "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2015-05-20 07:43 -0500
      Re: New Youtube Videos of Conversions using Double Lo-Res "Minipix" "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2015-05-20 08:40 -0500

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