Youtube - Apple IIgs 200-palette SHR Slideshow - Amiga Artwork One - A2B Converter

From	"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject	Youtube - Apple IIgs 200-palette SHR Slideshow - Amiga Artwork One - A2B Converter
Date	2015-08-23 11:39 -0500
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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As part of my ongoing documention and examples of SHR output from the A2B 
converter, I have been converting Amiga Pixel Art. This youtube video is a 
Mode3200 SHR slideshow of the last 100 test files that I converted this 
morning. I am in the process of writing a complete document with all the 
info you need to do the same thing yourself. A huge amount of Amiga Pixel 
Art is available from the Internet today, so if you are inclined to do 
something with your Apple IIgs you can probably get some pretty decent 
slideshows together by following what I did here...

https://youtu.be/eRDjbbhCFaM

Apple IIgs 200-palette SHR Slideshow - Amiga Artwork One - A2B Converter

Typical unedited Apple IIgs Mode3200 SHR conversions of AmigaArt using the 
A2B converter. Dithered with The Buckels E-dither. Some of these are pretty 
good and some of them are not so good. Since the purpose of this video is to 
inform and not necessarily to entertain, the good, the bad, and the ugly are 
mixed together. The Apple IIgs is restricted to 16 colors per line at a 320 
x 200 screen resolution. It also has a 640 x 200 screen resolution which has 
even more limitations. The Amiga was introduced before the Apple IIgs and 
constantly improved. Compared to the Apple IIgs and the PC's of the mid to 
late 1980's and throughout the 1990's no affordable Mainstream Computer was 
better than the Amiga for Pixel Art. It was popular with artists and defined 
pixel art as we know it today. The Apple IIgs was trailing edge. Displaying 
pixel art from the Amiga on the Apple IIgs is like displaying GIF files an 
the Apple IIe; you can do it, but they will not be perfect.

The A2B converter levers the ImageMagick toolset to produce this slideshow. 
Nothing really special is done with ImageMagick or A2B which is built with 
standard parts without any "secret sauce". This was all done in Windows Xp, 
so nothing special is going on here.

Apple IIgs graphics converters were very challenged when the Apple IIgs and 
Amiga were both in wide use. From my view they don't come close to the 
conversions you see here. Today there seems to be lots of Amiga Art on the 
Internet, and not much Apple IIgs Art. This is because Apple Computer did 
not put the same emphasis on providing leading edge graphics as the Amiga 
did. When it comes to Pixel Art, even modern computers have never surpassed 
what was on the Amiga. Today's average users are generally not as creative 
as the average Amiga user was when the Apple IIgs was in wide use.

All the best,

Bill Buckels

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