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 "chr$(219)" 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 doesn't 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 doesn't 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.  i'm 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.