Best way to make a disk that plays an animated GIF?

+Gemintronic · August 1, 2016

I'm looking for a program that will take an animated .GIF and output a program and/or disk that will load the animation on an Apple II or C64.

Is there such a beast? Thank you for any clues!

GroovyBee · August 1, 2016

I've never used it, but this does GIF to hardware sprites on the C64 :- http://1amstudios.com/2016/07/03/c64-animated-gif/

carlsson · August 1, 2016

On another C64 oriented forum, there recently was a fellow who made his own tool to export full hires frames out of an animated GIF. Currently it is a work in progress that goes bananas with the colour attributes, but there may be room for improvement.

How little work do you want to apply, is this a one time operation or something you'd like to apply to pretty much any GIF with instant results? I think taking apart the GIF into frames, convert those to images one by one and then find a way to load and display as many as possible might be a good way forward. The sprite example is cool, if that is the size you were aiming for.

A few more links:

Not sure what this does, but it might be worth having a look.

http://www.amidog.com/c64/fmv/

If you've got a 16 MB REU, you could preload it with frames and stream video using the Nuvie player. This page is in German, but there ought to be information in English too.

https://www.c64-wiki.de/index.php/Nuvie

Recent streaming using an Arduino connected to a C64: http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61366