[Coco] 44-color display mode code images available

[Joel Ewy]

On 03/04/2013 08:39 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 06:40:03PM -0600, Joel Ewy wrote:
>> On 03/03/2013 04:44 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> http://vdgtricks.blogspot.com/2013/03/curiouser-and-curiouser.html
>>>
>>> Enjoy!
>>>
>>> John
>> This looks very cool, John.  I intend to load your pics up on my old
>> CoCo (1) and see what they look in person.  It might just be
>> exciting enough to motivate me to figure out how to use git so I can
>> convert some photos of my own.
> Just to consume it, the commands are simple:
>
>     git clone git://git.infradead.org/users/linville/vdgtricks.git
>     cd vdgtricks
>     make
>
> You will need gcc, ImageMagick, and toolshed installed.  Just copy the
> image you want to display to "test.jpg" and the build will take care
> of the rest.  The Makefile has the details of how the tools are used,
> if you want to do the conversions manually.
>
> Hth!
>
> John
Hey John,

I was able to use your program to convert and display a JPEG on my old 
64K CoCo.  Pretty cool stuff.  Now we just need to make it so you can 
exit from the display program on a key press or after a certain length 
of time, so we could make a slideshow of it.

Well done.

JCE