Bmp2DHR - The MS-DOS Version - dedicated to Brian Piltz

From	"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject	Bmp2DHR - The MS-DOS Version - dedicated to Brian Piltz
Date	2014-10-22 07:02 -0500
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<m286e6$d3j$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)

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WebPage:
http://www.appleoldies.ca/cc65/docs/dhgr/bmp2dhrMSDOS.htm

Pdf Document:
http://www.appleoldies.ca/cc65/docs/dhgr/bmp2dhrMSDOS.pdf

Binaries of the latest version of Bmp2DHR are now available for both Win32 
and MS-DOS.

The documents above note the differences between the two. They also provide 
"screen-shots" of several DHGR conversions.

Bmp2DHR has been structured to run with relatively modest resources in both 
a 32-bit and 16-bit architecture. The source code is as compatible with old 
16-bit MS-DOS Ansi C compilers as it is with present day 32-bit Ansi C 
compilers like gcc and MinGW.

The MS-DOS executable comes with source code and MakeFiles and a complete 
build environment for 16-bit Turbo C and Microsoft C.

The Win32 executable comes with the same source code and a build environment 
for MinGW and gcc. The same source code can be compiled under Visual 
Studio's Microsoft 32-bit C or in the gcc compiler for Linux and OSX.

Input files can be created in a variety of BMP editors including Windows 
Paint from Windows 3.1 to Windows 7 (and probably beyond). It is also 
compatible with BMP files created in The GIMP (without colorspace info) and 
ImageMagick.

The MS-DOS executable will work in MS-DOS emulators like DosBOX on a 
surprisingly wide variety of platforms as well as in other versions of DOS 
like FreeDOS.

Bmp2DHR has been written without dependency on platform specific libraries 
that prevent portability while keeping the code as small as possible and 
still readable. This is why it has been limited to input of simple BMP files 
and output of a variety of simple DHGR files to suit the needs of everyone 
from programmers down to beginners.

Its output ranges from embedded and binary sprites for C (cc65, Aztec C65) 
programmers, screens for AppleSoft BASIC programmers and C programmers to 
BMP files compatible with Cybernesto's VBMP.

It also supports titling using either an overlay file or a tiny font. And it 
supports external palettes in a variety of formats and external files for 
user definable dithers.

Its preview output option in BMP format allows for quick review of DHGR 
output.

All this in one source file and one header file.

Since it compiles to native code, there is no need for any runtime like the 
Java runtime, and since it compiles to native code it is as fast as 
possible.

The source code is reasonably well commented and can be reviewed for more 
information.

All the best,

Bill Buckels

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Bmp2DHR - The MS-DOS Version - dedicated to Brian Piltz "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-10-22 07:02 -0500
  Re: Bmp2DHR - The MS-DOS Version - dedicated to Brian Piltz bpiltz@gmail.com - 2014-10-22 15:47 -0700
    Re: Bmp2DHR - The MS-DOS Version - dedicated to Brian Piltz "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-10-22 19:52 -0500
      Re: Bmp2DHR - The MS-DOS Version - dedicated to Brian Piltz Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2014-10-23 01:36 +0000

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