alternative work
there are some files like bollinche.ans. which were done in an alternative way. all of them are a single vga screen each one. which is 80x50 with 8x8 characters. either the black space or the chr219 solid block in any of the other 15 colors.
i wrote a dosauce.bas program. based on code by a740g one of the qb64 phoenix developers. i was forced to modify it. so a text picture loaded decently in his ansiprint64 program. without sauce record. my ans files loaded differently from the ones that did have sauce record. my program lets me add title and screen dimensions. it forces the name of the author me, clear2ooo and it forces the attributes. i had to also set the type flags to cause ansiprint64 for one of my ans files to properly set 8x8 character block instead of the larger one. this is because ansiprint64 always scrolls an extra line at the bottom. with the bad way it displayed the picture. the first line of the picture was always cut off.
so i did a converter. from png file to ans file. it was what i programmed on a seldom-used installation of ubuntu mate focal fossa. a few months before it fell end-of-life. on that installation. i purposely use gimp with the imported 16-color palette. cannot change from rgb mode to indexed. because the wack program doesnt work properly. i created a simple file with the 16 colors. then wrote a basic program to read the colors with point function. those 16 values are to be used in comparisons. for any other png file created in the same mode using that application only.
previously i used mtpixy to create the graphic pictures. but i kept getting mind-boggling results. while i tried to pick up the 32-bit integer color values needed to compare. such as entirely black blank pixels being read as value 1 instead of value 0. in range from 0 to 15. that program doesnt have an export to ascii option. like mtpaint does. but mtpixy is easier to get, as appimage.
if i want to do the comic strip out of this scheme. i will have to bring the frames into my debian mate. where i have moebius installed.
this is before i discovered moebius strips blank spaces from the end of lines. which trashes my entire form-feed animation scheme. at the time of this writing. im struggling to put together a work. that i edited frame for frame in that program. but just inserting the form-feed character produces a great mess on screen. i need the display to show all 4000 characters then form-feed, per picture frame.
there are some files like bollinche.ans. which were done in an alternative way. all of them are a single vga screen each one. which is 80x50 with 8x8 characters. either the black space or the chr219 solid block in any of the other 15 colors.
i wrote a dosauce.bas program. based on code by a740g one of the qb64 phoenix developers. i was forced to modify it. so a text picture loaded decently in his ansiprint64 program. without sauce record. my ans files loaded differently from the ones that did have sauce record. my program lets me add title and screen dimensions. it forces the name of the author me, clear2ooo and it forces the attributes. i had to also set the type flags to cause ansiprint64 for one of my ans files to properly set 8x8 character block instead of the larger one. this is because ansiprint64 always scrolls an extra line at the bottom. with the bad way it displayed the picture. the first line of the picture was always cut off.
so i did a converter. from png file to ans file. it was what i programmed on a seldom-used installation of ubuntu mate focal fossa. a few months before it fell end-of-life. on that installation. i purposely use gimp with the imported 16-color palette. cannot change from rgb mode to indexed. because the wack program doesnt work properly. i created a simple file with the 16 colors. then wrote a basic program to read the colors with point function. those 16 values are to be used in comparisons. for any other png file created in the same mode using that application only.
previously i used mtpixy to create the graphic pictures. but i kept getting mind-boggling results. while i tried to pick up the 32-bit integer color values needed to compare. such as entirely black blank pixels being read as value 1 instead of value 0. in range from 0 to 15. that program doesnt have an export to ascii option. like mtpaint does. but mtpixy is easier to get, as appimage.
if i want to do the comic strip out of this scheme. i will have to bring the frames into my debian mate. where i have moebius installed.
this is before i discovered moebius strips blank spaces from the end of lines. which trashes my entire form-feed animation scheme. at the time of this writing. im struggling to put together a work. that i edited frame for frame in that program. but just inserting the form-feed character produces a great mess on screen. i need the display to show all 4000 characters then form-feed, per picture frame.
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