barnieg Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 (edited) I'm still having trouble converting images with the correct colour in using Gimp, what I have found that if I add a colour bar with all the correct colours to the bottom of the image before conversion it gives the correct colour output. This is an image taken from the Map of an old ZX Spectrum game Android 2 AndroidTwo.bmp and the result of the conversion AndroidTwoconv.bmp Details on the game and snapshots can be found at: Android Two This was the first game I bought for the Commodore 64 which I shared with my Brother. With a little bit of substitution of Graphic Characters and enough RAM games like this I believe would be doable on the Aquarius. It's worth noting how the text portion of the image was converted from the Spectrum text correctly, I manually edited the value of the "N" to confirm my understanding of how the graphics are been laid out on the Aquarius screen. Barnie Note: How do I get images to appear in-line correctly here without having the host the images externally? Edited December 15, 2010 by barnieg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MattelAquarius Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Here's Tengen Tetris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MattelAquarius Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Barnie Note: How do I get images to appear in-line correctly here without having the host the images externally? Barnie, Nice efforts. I found that jpegs will show up properly, when attached to the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 By Friday at the latest you won't have to mess with any palette issues. I have all of the proper building blocks in place to update the converter to take in any bitmap at any color depth. You will have to resize the bitmap to 320x192 but other than that - you'll be in great shape! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MattelAquarius Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Looking forward to the latest version with color freedom. Before: After: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Looking forward to the latest version with color freedom. Before: After: Nice website!! (Need to use it tonight with my nieces and nephews.) Anyway - I have the converter working great except that for some reason the image is shifting one pixel to the right. I know that sounds like all I have to do is add a +1 or -1 somewhere, but I tried the random "try this one" last night a few times and I couldn't get it right - so... I have to go through each x and y coordinate reference and make sure they are consistent. BUT - the exciting news is that I will release the new converter tonight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psquare75 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 (edited) This reminds me of all of the great 80s graphical text adventure games.. Like Crimson Crown.. Rendezvous With Rama.. etc. (The headless horse approaches you.. What do you do? CMD: ) It would make creating a game like that far easier. Edited December 17, 2010 by psquare75 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-topdog Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 The headless horse approaches you.. What do you do? Curl up in a fetal position! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psquare75 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Actually I screwed up, that should be "horseless head" Carry on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MattelAquarius Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Behold! The death Sphere! Before: After: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saehn Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I'm not an Aquarius fan (Commodore and Intellivision mostly), but I really like this project! Have you considered "opening it up" for custom settings? I could see it being valuable for ASCII-like art on a variety of 8-bit systems... if one could specify a resolution, palette, cell size, and a BMP of the character set. This could apply to C64 PETSCII, Intellivision "card" graphics, Aquarius, Atari, etc. Just a thought! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Behold! The death Sphere! Before: After: I have to get the next version out. This one is really cool! Wild how the characters fill in for the spaces... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 I'm not an Aquarius fan (Commodore and Intellivision mostly), but I really like this project! Have you considered "opening it up" for custom settings? I could see it being valuable for ASCII-like art on a variety of 8-bit systems... if one could specify a resolution, palette, cell size, and a BMP of the character set. This could apply to C64 PETSCII, Intellivision "card" graphics, Aquarius, Atari, etc. Just a thought! :-) That is a cool idea. I want to finish this one up with additional features. One is to allow any number of colors for a 320x192 BMP (almost done) and the next is to display the character set and allow them to be switched on and off for the conversion - this way you could limit odd characters. After that I want to write a similar program for the original TRS-80 Color Computer. (It had those semi-graphics characters that I'd like to take a shot at.) I'd also like to look at trying to tweak the aquarius graphics modes - but that is a more daunting task. (And when Jay releases the SuperFont and Multicart work - I'd imagine you could have a fair bit of fun with custom character sets.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MattelAquarius Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 (edited) Couple more. Before and after: (actually, it came out as 'after and before') circles+.bmp circles+c.bmp Edited December 17, 2010 by Jay Silverheels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Ok folks... Here is Version 3 of the Aquariatizer... You can use any BMP of any color depth as long as it is 320x192. Also, during conversion it will show the proper aquarius colors. I sped it up a bit and optimized the screen size. I also got rid of the console window. Let's see some ART WORK!!! BMPAQV3.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MattelAquarius Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 I've been having a great time with the new software. Thanks! I've been rehashing many of my old pics, but I'll only post one, here. The 1st new pic I'm posting is the Aquarius rendition of the 7800's Commando title screen. I'm going to try converting some other games' in-game screens, too, just for fun. Here they are: Before: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MattelAquarius Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 7800 Donkey Kong Before: After: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MattelAquarius Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 I like how this one turned out! 7800 Joust Title Screen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 I like how this one turned out! 7800 Joust Title Screen Hey, that's pretty good! Large solid objects seem to be something that the converter handles well; it's difficult to capture fine details using the default character set, at least without a lot of hand-tweaking of the converted image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted December 18, 2010 Author Share Posted December 18, 2010 Yeah... the cartoon-like pictures work much better. There were a few pictures that worked well... (the butt picture and the cleavage picture are examples...) Here is my interpretation of donkey kong... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 This has nothing to do with the converter, I know, but the Joust title screen gave me some ideas. How's this for the design of the Joust birds? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted December 18, 2010 Author Share Posted December 18, 2010 This has nothing to do with the converter, I know, but the Joust title screen gave me some ideas. How's this for the design of the Joust birds? Bad-ass if you wanted to port joust to the aquarius! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MattelAquarius Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Joust would be awesome. Those were great mock-ups. Here's one more before I sign out for the night. Before: After: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MattelAquarius Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 I've been playing around this morning. For some reason, the attached file causes an error on the Aquarius, when the conversion program is run. It also gives some strange color output before the crash. I'm not sure what I did to the pic to cause it. Attached it, in case you're curious. 7800BallBlazergame.bmp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted December 18, 2010 Author Share Posted December 18, 2010 I've been playing around this morning. For some reason, the attached file causes an error on the Aquarius, when the conversion program is run. It also gives some strange color output before the crash. I'm not sure what I did to the pic to cause it. Attached it, in case you're curious. I can't recreate the error - I saved the file, ran the converter and it ran fine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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