snicklin Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 On 12/13/2022 at 12:24 AM, Beeblebrox said: It's been a good while since I've been able to convert anything. For some reason after a Windows system crash with RC whilst running a conversion back the summer my Win10 laptop refused to run RC from that point onwards. (It would just jump out of it everytime I ran it) Other commitments, etc got in the way of me attempting to fix it, but I've just revisited the issue. Still not right and I am still having crashes or RC is just refusing to start an image. (I suspect it is a Windows runtime issue or something related). I've tried installing RC in a different folder from scratch and it allows me to start some conversions but frustratingly not convert them to XEXs. Thankfully I can use the original install of RC to do this if I copy over the files to it's RC folder - so between the two at least I can do some things My suspicion here would be based around an anti-virus / malware etc tool blocking off the functionality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 consider a registry error, probably some reference is stuck to something that is broken or isn't there. not sure if there are dependencies, but one or more may be missing or broken. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Thanks for suggestions guys. I agree I think it is registry related among other things. Between the two installs I can (most of the time) run a conversion and output an XEX) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Another conversion The Cowboy Bebop anime character Faye Valentine - pop art by an artist called Hannah Alexander which I liked on the internet and decided to convert 2.6 bill evaluations 73 unique colours No mask used 320*240 - Fixed with Sheddy's tools (where it wasn't able to remove all the HPOS line errors) (image grab from Altirra with pal high artifacting enabled) Beeblebrox_FayValHannahAlexandersm1_06_Fixed.xex This is the source image BTW: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Another conversion just for a bit of fun whilst other conversions were cookin: Henry Cavill as Superman. If I run this again I'll make the background a single black background colour for obvious reasons. Very pleased with the colours/definition on the main body/suit and cape. 1.3 bill evaluations 45 unique colours Mask applied (image grab from Altirra with pal high artifacting enabled) Beeblebrox_HenrySupermansm1_09_Centered.xex 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Dear all, May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow. Wishing you lots of love, joy, and happiness. Merry Christmas! amarok_snow_globe.xex 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 6 minutes ago, amarok said: Dear all, May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow. Wishing you lots of love, joy, and happiness. Merry Christmas! amarok_snow_globe.xex 22.07 kB · 1 download Stunning!!! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 2 hours ago, amarok said: Dear all, May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow. Wishing you lots of love, joy, and happiness. Merry Christmas! amarok_snow_globe.xex 22.07 kB · 5 downloads Wow - I've looked at every Rasta image ever posted (still maintaining an archive of them) and this may be the absolute best one I've yet seen! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 (edited) Definitely one of the best yet, though the limited colors helps a lot. I've been working on some Christmas conversions myself, but haven't been getting results I like thus far, but I'll post the best I can do pre-Christmas. I'm working for conversions that get the "stunning" or "wow" but I may not have the time to refine my settings to get that quality: generally it takes at least a dozen attempts to approach what I want, but time is running out for me and the best I can do on my old computer is two at a time and at least 24 hours of conversion time before I decide if it continues or I stop, make changes and start over... I almost had a couple to post today, but a thrown breaker shut my computer down, and when I restarted it and attempted to resume the conversions, for some reason I got some kind of file not found errors (I forget what it said in the window exactly) and I've no idea why...so I had to start them completely over. Edited December 22, 2022 by Gunstar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhants Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Can anyone please advise - is there a collated repository, archive or combined collection anywhere of A8 RastaConverter created .XEX images - like on an FTP site for example? Or is it basically just this thread ? Would be great to have them all collated under ftp.pigwa.net for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 22 minutes ago, andyhants said: Can anyone please advise - is there a collated repository, archive or combined collection anywhere of A8 RastaConverter created .XEX images - like on an FTP site for example? Or is it basically just this thread ? Would be great to have them all collated under ftp.pigwa.net for example. I'm not aware of any online repository besides this thread. My OCD makes me save every single image, I've posted them all in a single ZIP once or twice. If someone does want to start a repo for it, I'll gladly upload what I have since it can be done as a single file. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhants Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 6 minutes ago, Stephen said: I'm not aware of any online repository besides this thread. My OCD makes me save every single image, I've posted them all in a single ZIP once or twice. If someone does want to start a repo for it, I'll gladly upload what I have since it can be done as a single file. Ok thanks. as a brief follow-up is there a Slideshow type utility available that could run under SDX by any chance - I've seen there's an app called RastaSlide but I think that's a Windows utility? Basically i'm looking for something that would entirely in an SDX A8 bit environment - so I guess sequentially running through a load of XEXs one after teh other in a given SDX Directory maybe ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 I believe in SDX you can create a bat file to run through a directory of images - each time you hit escape to exit an image, it loads the next one. I am not aware of anything automated for this, nor do I know a way to make the pictures automatically exit after a set time in order to facilitate an automatic slideshow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 @Sheddy is ya man as creator of rastaslide and tools. I've created many automated slide xex but of course what you are talking about would be reading from the directory as many slides as is in a folder from either a apt formated storage medium of fat formatted one. If anyone knows it will be Sheddy. 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhants Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 (edited) 56 minutes ago, Beeblebrox said: @Sheddy is ya man as creator of rastaslide and tools. I've created many automated slide xex but of course what you are talking about would be reading from the directory as many slides as is in a folder from either a apt formated storage medium of fat formatted one. If anyone knows it will be Sheddy. 😁 ok thanks - can I ask - what did you use to create a many automated slide xex ? Is that done in Windows & then you just run the final XEX on the A8? @Sheddy - would really appreciate your views on my original question about collating & running a multi XEX slideshow from within an SDX environment - thanks. Edited December 23, 2022 by andyhants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhants Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Stephen said: I'm not aware of any online repository besides this thread. My OCD makes me save every single image, I've posted them all in a single ZIP once or twice. If someone does want to start a repo for it, I'll gladly upload what I have since it can be done as a single file. I could have a go but haven't done anything like this before. Does anyone know is it easy / possible to post stuff up to ftp.pigwa.net ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 13 minutes ago, andyhants said: ok thanks - can I ask - what did you use to create a many automated slide xex ? Is that done in Windows & then you just run the final XEX on the A8? @Sheddy - would really appreciate your views on my original question about collating & running a multi XEX slideshow from within an SDX environment - thanks. Yes. Rastaslide batch creates an output xex. Windows based. Fairly easy to use. See: For latest version of slides how maker and tools. Also see my last slide show (I think) : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 The bat file creation for SDX is very easy and can be done on the Atari. Just put all of the files you want to run in a directory. Do a directory listing and pipe it to a file, then edit said file so it is just the filenames. Without something that modifies the original rasta files though, you will have to click escape to move from picture to picture. There's no way around this, and if using an external tool to do this (which would be required), might as well just use the already existing slide show creator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 (edited) Can't miss posting a conversion on Christmas eve. Happy Christmas everyone and thanks for all the great pics this year! Keep em coming. Quick one - nothing fancy Christmas Fireplace 66 Unique colours Dithering used No mask 320*200 - Image fixed HPOS and centred using Sheddy's tools (Thanks as ever @Sheddy ) (image grab from Altirra with pal high artifacting enabled) Beeblebrox_Xmasfireplacesm1_01_fixed_centered.xex Edited December 24, 2022 by Beeblebrox 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steril707 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 On 12/21/2022 at 9:58 PM, amarok said: Dear all, May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow. Wishing you lots of love, joy, and happiness. Merry Christmas! amarok_snow_globe.xex 22.07 kB · 27 downloads Had a friend over for some drinks yesterday evening, and since my 600XL is currently standing on my table, used this as a background for a while.. Thanks once more. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Christmas Church. 60 colors. GS_ChristmasChurch.xex 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 It is really nice and well done conversion. I like it very much. Thanks @Gunstar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 1 hour ago, amarok said: It is really nice and well done conversion. I like it very much. Thanks @Gunstar. Thanks, there are a couple areas I'm not happy with, but I ran out of time if I want to share anything for Christmas. I have a couple more I'm still running, maybe I'll post later today, but if they aren't ready, I'll save them for next Christmas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 On 12/21/2022 at 6:29 PM, Stephen said: Wow - I've looked at every Rasta image ever posted (still maintaining an archive of them) and this may be the absolute best one I've yet seen! At first glance, I thought that was the source image, not the Rasta pic! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 32 minutes ago, adam242 said: At first glance, I thought that was the source image, not the Rasta pic! It's stunning on a CRT! I have to figure out how to photograph my CRTs. I am sure the wife's proper digital cam will work better than my cell phone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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