GravityWorm Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 "In 2086, two American puppets journeyed to Earth, seeking our help. In return, they gave hoomns nothing. They wanted to give hoomans the first hyperdrive, allowing mankind to open the doors to the stars. But hoomans had it already and it was called Alcuberre Drive ([alkuˈβjere]) and was invented by Mexixan scientist Miguel Alcubierre Moya widelly known as Miguel Alcubierre. In 1994..." Almost 50 colors! NTSC palette /pal=ntsc.act Screenshot from a PAL emulator @drpeter probably could help fixing errors... IDK... MiguelAccubiere07NTSC.xex 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 CRT simulations. Using digital methods. No AI... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) Converting images of computer chip dies don't convert nicely or anything that has small detailed parts. The Pc I use for rasta is off-line for de-dusting and fresh thermal paste on the cooler so today I was using a much older Pc that I have here it's a Phenom II 6 core runing at 3.75 ghz the Video card is also old Nvidia GTX960 and 8 gigs of system memory ddr3 1866 . I had a die shot of the prossor on the desktop so I thought I would try a conversion on it... Most likely it will not turn out good but I'll give it a try.. I'm posting a WIP the src and the CPU usage as you'll see rasta puts a good load on the cores. Edited March 19 by Atari8man2004 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) Aztec Warrior Colors: 51 Something I did last year I found this on a Pc before switching system. Atari8man_Aztec_Warrior.xex Edited March 19 by Atari8man2004 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 1 hour ago, Atari8man2004 said: Something I did last year That's really good ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 40 colors only This is second picture when I tried combining non dither fragments with dither fragments... NTSC palette /i=input.png /details=mask.png /details_val=4 /pal=ntsc.act /s=10000 /threads=4 /seed=0 /save=10000000 GravityWormEricPlusBear006.xex 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhor Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 I would love to see huge GFX slideshow, with music on 2 channels and pictures being loaded from the disk (and some propaganda text in between :)). Maybe is there any? Otherwise, all those damn good conversions will be forgoten in couple years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 (edited) 1 hour ago, dhor said: I would love to see huge GFX slideshow, with music on 2 channels and pictures being loaded from the disk (and some propaganda text in between :)). Maybe is there any? Otherwise, all those damn good conversions will be forgoten in couple years. You'd not get this, (in terms of RC images), running off a real hardware Atari disk or stock memory a8s for various reasons. Firstly capacity. The average RC image 22k. Even with some form of light compression it would take a good while to load, and even if you loaded several into memory and uncompressed, there wouldn't be more than a few images available. The other major consideration is cpu processing. An RC image takes a lot of cpu cycles and system resources to display. Doesn't leave much room, if any, for it to be doing other things such as u compressing or loading, and also I believe the screen has to be blank whilst loading from SIO devices. I have seen a cut down version of an rc image running with single channel music and a single text scrolled before. However that is a single demo that loads into stock memory a8s, displaying a single image. The only way I can see it working is either : -You have an enhanced ram A8, (say one with 512k or 1MB). You then have a non SIO loading cart device, so a PBI based one such as side3 or avg. Here you can load compressed images very fast into the A8 computer's memory, then uncompressed and run. Or -You have a banked ram capable cart from which the images load from said banked ram. This again could still be a side3 or avg cart, as they can emulate banked ram. But also it could be say an Atarimax max flash 8mbit (1mb) cart. Incidentally, Side3 has the additional ability to load images quickly straight from a Fat32 format sd card off the sd card, (limited the GB's worth of storage in any given sized SDcard), where you would be limited to the capacity of the A8's ram here, loading several images into memory, or one at a time. Since it's not SIO based but still PBI based that might work. PBI is much faster at data transfer than SIO. I don't think you have any way of doing this off a standard SIO disk drive or SIO device, (ie fujinet, sdrive max, sio2sd, etc) simply because of speed and the limits of SIO. Even a virtual atr disk image, which could be mounted in respect pc software running via sio2pc usb and hooked up to A8 would still have the same constraints. One other way would be on Altirra emulator, so not on real A8 hardware at all. This opens up a lot of possibilities as you could have a massive atr disk image and get it to load super fast, (as you can speed things up in Altirra in terms of data transfer). Still, even emulated, having two channel sound and a scroller, with rc images, would be a push for the emulated cpu cycles. The other consideration also being that a lot of RC images are 320x240 full screen. You'd be better off using 320x200 letter box size rc images. I am no expert here, and the likes of fellow rc AA regulars @MrFish and @Sheddy among others might wanna chime in here. Edited March 20 by Beeblebrox 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 1 hour ago, Beeblebrox said: I am no expert here, and the likes of fellow rc AA regulars @MrFish and @Sheddy among others might wanna chime in here. Forgot to add @drpeter to that list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheddy Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 On 2/24/2024 at 5:27 PM, Sheddy said: RastaSlide 4.3 - RastaConverter Slide Show Maker and Tools Changes in version 4.3 - Compiled with old GO version 1.20.14 which is the last that works with Windows 7 - Early version of tool to help recreate some files for RastaConverter /continue @MrFish Hopefully this should work for you RastaSlide 4.3.zip 5.12 MB · 15 downloads sheddy_opal_sea_turtle.xex 22.1 kB · 11 downloads 4 hours ago, dhor said: I would love to see huge GFX slideshow, with music on 2 channels and pictures being loaded from the disk (and some propaganda text in between :)). Maybe is there any? Otherwise, all those damn good conversions will be forgoten in couple years. Yeah, I know, no music, but it has the rest covered. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Doomsday II Colors: 35 Atari8man_Doomsday_II.xex 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Beeblebrox "Firstly capacity. The average RC image 22k." Go cartilage! Cartridge would handle it? I talked with doctor Peter about that... When I made BraveStarr - 3 frames animation 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) Queen of Hearts Colors: 55 Atari8man_Queen_of_Hearts.xex Edited March 21 by Atari8man2004 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 On 7/16/2012 at 7:07 AM, Stephen said: Now some of my all time favourites - although sad. They are from the troubled artist Louis Wain (google him if you are not familiar). I hope if I go off the deep end that I end up in a happier place than this poor soul did. Anyhow - here are my 1st attempts at his cats (I am redoing #3 with a details mask. I will let the machine run as long as it needs to in order to eliminate the banding). I have two machines running image #3 over night (both do around 4 thousand evals per second). One is doing knoll dithering laoo palette, the other is chess dithering with altirra palette. So far, neither is looking very promising. Details are in the filenames. EDIT Post edited with new version of cat#3. I think this one is just too much for the little Atari to render. I'm working on a cat picture! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 15 hours ago, Atari8man2004 said: Queen of Hearts Colors: 55 Atari8man_Queen_of_Hearts.xex 22.04 kB · 11 downloads I like more queen of spades. Also I know there is famous song "Ace of Spades"... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 20 hours ago, Atari8man2004 said: Doomsday II Colors: 35 Atari8man_Doomsday_II.xex 22.09 kB · 3 downloads Can I have source? I;m learning using NTSC palette... Someone said that NTSC palette has more reds.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 32 minutes ago, GravityWorm said: Can I have source? I;m learning using NTSC palette... Someone said that NTSC palette has more reds.... Sure thing i'll msg them 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Doomsday III Colors: 39 - humanity at its finest- Atari8man_Doomsday_3.xex 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Doomsday SRC files 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Medusa III Colors: 35 plus SRC Atari8man_Medusa_III.xex 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 2 minutes ago, Atari8man2004 said: Medusa III Colors: 35 plus SRC Atari8man_Medusa_III.xex 20.31 kB · 0 downloads What palette used? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 4 minutes ago, GravityWorm said: What palette used? I used altirra.act 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 2 hours ago, GravityWorm said: I'm working on a cat picture! Cool. I may have found a few more of his pictures since then. I should go back and re-try a few of the ones that didn't work, given my now additional 12 years of using the convertor! Man - how time flies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Ladybug Colors: 65 Plus src Atari8man_Ladybug.xex Atari8man_Ladybug.7z 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 5 minutes ago, Atari8man2004 said: Ladybug Colors: 65 Plus src Atari8man_Ladybug.xex 22.09 kB · 0 downloads Atari8man_Ladybug.7z 117.9 kB · 0 downloads Bravo! One of your best images! Fantastically vivid colours. Love it! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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