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

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"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> wrote:
>if you don't like the dithered output think of it as giving you a template 
>to redraw the screen.

I have mentioned it many times before but I guess I'd better mention it 
again;

All of my converters provide post-conversion preview output that can be 
edited in a modern paint program and reprocessed until the user gets the 
results they want, within the limitations of the particular Apple II 
graphics mode that they have targeted.

I call this "round-trip editing".

Since these converters will compile and run on Windows, Linux, and OSX the 
only real limitation is the user. If a user cannot use a modern graphics 
editor to some degree of functional competency, and does not know how to 
type, then I perfectly understand that they will be presented with 
challenges that will require some skills development.

For the double lo-res converter, since I provide the world's largest 
collection of Mini-Pix in my clipshop utility, this makes an ideal starting 
point for someone who wants to learn about Apple II graphics. Demo disks 
with AppleSoft BASIC are also provided for the beginner, showing how to make 
a double lo-res file viewer and slide-show.

The activity that I expect is something like learning to walk; first a baby 
step is taken and the user learns how to prepare an image for conversion. 
Afterwards they learn to use disk management tools like CiderPress and 
emulators like AppleWin. They can use the slideshows provided in C to 
automatically set-up and display their own efforts. Beyond that 
progressively more advanced activities are supported; round-trip editing 
being one of these.

The use of Minipix as the basis for a starting exercise for learning about 
Double Lo-Res graphics is really quite novel but really very effective as a 
starting point. It's about as hard as crayoning in a coloring book with 12 
colors, and black and white and grey.

Provided the goal is to actually do something with converted bitmapped 
graphics in double lo-res of course. There's lots more that can be done and 
the excellent advanced demos far outshine what these converters have to 
offer, but not everyone can do those adavnced demos. I still contend that if 
a person writes in C they can advance pretty quickly from converting 
graphics to writing stuff that is as good as anything out there, advanced or 
not.

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
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    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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