ZX Format #07 05 декабря 1997

Programmers - BMC 2. Esche few words about the conversion of PC-shnyh images in 3-color.

Tale of 3-Color'e,
 part of the latter.

music by Volga Soft
(C) Research / VSP
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Today I decided to continue the theme 3-Color'a (BMC) and throw 
a couple of useful veshchichek, namely CONVERT v.alfa in minus 
the third (by Research / VSP) and a piece of sortsa X-Color'a 
(by Mik / VG). 

 Convert - program for IBM PCs. Just swing Convert3.E file on 
the PC and rename in EXE


Convert, what can he?

Strengths:

 1) allows you to upload. TGA images
sizes up to 320x200x256
 2) Convert images in two ways
(Floyd-Steinberg dither, threshold
Comparison of intensity) at BMC format
 3) displays the result of conversion
 4) allows us to ship the resulting graphics in two formats: 
sprite or screen (the second can be immediately shove

in X-COLOR)
 5) allows us to remove the extra points as a
3 Plain at once, and in each of
separately (psevdokontrastnost)
 6) Small size (2.5k)
 7) Quick work

Disadvantages:

 1) is not the best quality dithering
 2) after Fast Tracker'a unpacker
love prints 'Packed file corrupt'
 3) No test, therefore, if
You podsunete instead. TGA. BMP, result is undefined.
 4) cheesy interface.

System requirements: DX4-100/VGA/RAM 1MB
Prog was written by myself:) and by the absence of the machine 
(my screw died), and the same time, not improved with

half a year, and probably will not.


   For what I yuzayu Convert?

 Very convenient for a preliminary assessment
quality (as it happen this image
skonvertit?) and if a slew of extra points does not work, drive 
in this Picture. If quality is satisfied, then

fetched, if not, the image path
in GWS (and back). Mode threshold comparison Intensives can be 
transferred to BMC Picture format, already in diterenny

something (for some images, incidentally, very best practices 
and well-packed). 

 Now about sortse.

 Actually, this X-Solor with avtofikserom,
but without a file shell. To the people in vain
not waste time inventing the next great, we Michel'em and 
decided to throw this sorets. Deal with it, I do not think

be difficult, Tasm yet. (See
CD + +. A and DCD +. A)

Digression.

 People! Short suffer. . When
I wrote the BMC (3-Color), it would in a short
time to complete "Pops" and write the game. AND
no game left, and the tricolor game,
even if only 1 / 3 of the screen, type R-TYPE,
but eight colors per pixel. For various reasons (old showdown 
with VG, the constant lack of time, and some over-saturation), 
I have not written this game, but showed that it can write, 
given his experience to others. And what I see? BMC stuck

already a two-pornoigry (usually to cover up
add a couple of "normal" pictures)
as something they do write, but that would be
Next?

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