[Coco] When Mario takes the wrong pipe

Frank Pittel fwp at deepthought.com
Wed Oct 16 15:04:27 EDT 2013


Python = blech!!

For the unix and commandline tool oriented there's always the imagemagic toolset.
For a one off image PS is going to be easier!

The Other Frank



On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:34:07AM -0400, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> well a simple command line python program would be enough but if you're not
> a programmer then it would be the hard way for you ;)
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com>wrote:
> 
> > Yah but stretching it is very easy. Much easier than writing an entire
> > editing program! It was easy to hack together a quick&dirty program to read
> > in a .png and output the bytes for the screen and then send the bytes over
> > serial and load the bytes into the video RAM.
> >
> > On Oct 16, 2013, at 8:16 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> >
> > > but the 4 color mode has a wider pixel, you need to shrink the width in
> > > half, convert to 4 colors and stretch again using non linear algoritm.
> > And
> > > then you have to convert it to coco bitmap mode.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >> I just pull pictures into photoshop and switch to indexed color mode and
> > >> give it a custom palette which has the limited colors of the computer I
> > >> want to display on.
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