Shannon Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 (edited) How hard to you all think it would be to take this image create an animated gif that would morph the xbox "x" into the atari fuji symbol and the word x-port into the word Atari? Thanks.. (I wonder if I should post this over in off-topic/computers, science & technology)... Edited December 9, 2007 by Shannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 There are morphing apps and even webpages that let you upload 2 images and receive an end-product which you can save (no, I don't have any links). So long as you can get the end product as either a GIF or series of BMPs, you could then import them to the Atari. For a GIF, you'd want to then convert each frame to a BMP anyway. From there, you'd want to compress the first image. Since subsequent images are close to the first one, it would probably be a case of having some sort of differential algorithm which specifies which elements of the picture change. I remember Cyberpaint on the ST used a kind of RLE with Exclusive OR of data from one frame to the next. That enabled it to store fairly complex animations in a small amount of space. Whether such an application is available for the A8 - no idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 (edited) Thanks for the suggestions. FYI the end product would not be displayed on an Atari. It's an opening screenshot for an emulator. I thought it'd be cool to have it morph into the Atari Logo. There are several other menu screens that I've been wanting to modify as well but I don't exactly have the greatest graphic skills. I could probably hack something together. But it'd be nice to do something with a more "modern" sheen to it. Shiny and lots of transparency. What I would like to do for the above picture is take maybe one of those Atari logo's where the colors rotate (like the 5200 startup screen) and change the colors to shades of green (like above image) and then have it switch to color. (moving from the top of the logo down as if the color was covering up the green). This would occur, of course after the morph effect.. Edited December 9, 2007 by Shannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted January 1, 2008 Author Share Posted January 1, 2008 Ok well here is what I came up with so far while messing with WinMorph. I also upped the sound I'm thinking of playing during the morph. Note I did not edit the sound file so there is a delay, and a little bit of sound at the end. Click on the picture to see the animation. LucasLogo.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trey Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 your winmorph looks great to me. i use morpheus: http://www.morpheussoftware.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 Hmm seems that the emu does not currently support any starting sounds. So I'll have to ditch that idea for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I take it that you're using some sort of Atari emulator on the XBox? How about AVI on startup? And, instead of the A8 Ballblazer sound, why not rip the Lucasfilm THX intro sound off a DVD or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwan-iwanowitsch-goratschin Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I like it..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 (edited) lol. I seriously did consider the THX sound. Crazy minds must think alike. But I decided it was better to keep to original Atari created sounds. I've been tweaking the code for the xbox atari 8-bit emulator. Unfortunately it does not support sound file play on startup. But it's probably something fairly easy to add. It doesn't support .avi playback either. The skin functionality is pretty basic. You can change the background graphics, fonts, create sprites (numbered picture files) that have a few features like boucing around the screen etc. It can play .wav files while moving around in the menu and .mp3 files as background music. I eventually would like to change the default background music. This is where I contradict myself a little because I'd like it to be based on classic Atari tunes but with a more modern "tracker" feel to it. Maybe classic Atari tunes with a techno or modern beat? It'd also be kinda cool to add in .sap playback support but that may be a long while. Edited January 2, 2008 by Shannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 There's a Mule remix floating around somewhere. Or, maybe just the theme music from a number of titles, on random play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 (edited) yeah sadly there don't seem to be many remix type stuff for the Atari. Mostly just C64 or Amiga stuff. lol There is a song called Pacman-Game over on the SAP archive that is kinda the style I was thinking, although it is not based on any particular atari 8-bit game. The mule remix is pretty good. Edited January 2, 2008 by Shannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Any chance you can fix the terrible sound in the emulator? That's the only thing stopping me from using it on my XBox. Stephen Anderson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 (edited) Any chance you can fix the terrible sound in the emulator? That's the only thing stopping me from using it on my XBox. Stephen Anderson Yeah that was the first thing I fixed among other things. It was keeping me from using the xbox as well. It is really nice to be able to play this stuff on the Xbox without the cruddy sound. But at the moment the new pokey emulation cannot do vol only sound (digital) so the "old" pokey emulation still has to be used. But other than that it sounds fine. Once I'm done upgrading the core, if that does not get the vol only sound like I want it I'll probably talk to the guy who ported atari800 over to the GP2X. I know that he was having some sound issues so I'm hoping he will have some insight. Edited January 3, 2008 by Shannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 And, instead of the A8 Ballblazer sound, why not rip the Lucasfilm THX intro sound off a DVD or something? Because it has absolutely nothing to do with Atari? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 lol. Not directly, but lucas arts was tied into George Lucas who is also tied into Lucasfilm, so that is an inderect tie-in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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