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  • Bill Buckels' BMP2DHR Missing a Viewer

    From Bill Chatfield@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 23 20:56:42 2023
    I can't figure out how to display the DHGR files that BMP2DHR produces.
    There are .A2IF files on a .DSK image, but I can't see any way to view
    them. It seems kind of cruel to provide a converter without a viewer.
    Haha

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  • From Bill Chatfield@21:1/5 to I am Rob on Sun Dec 24 14:35:51 2023
    On Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:36:13 -0800 (PST)
    I am Rob <gids.rs@sasktel.net> wrote:

    Do it in Applesoft

    10 D$=CHR$(4)
    15 ?D$”PR#3”
    20 HGR:POKE49246,0:POKE49237,0:CALL62454:POKE4936,0:TEXT
    25INPUT”Enter Dbl Hi-res file to view: “;NF$
    30 IF NF$=“” THEN TEXT:END
    40POKE49237,0: ?D$ “BLOAD “NF$”,A$2000,L$2000”
    50POKE49236,0: ?D$ “BLOAD “NF$”,A$2000,L$2000,B$2000”
    60 CALL -3100: GET A$: TEXT : GOTO 25

    Okay, that is awesome. I was actually hoping for a piece of code I
    could understand rather than a binary loader.

    So are the 2 BLOADs because of the AUX memory? You're switching over to
    AUX memory, loading into that, and then switching back and loading into
    regular memory (or the opposite). But it looks like you're loading the
    same thing into both?

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  • From Bill Chatfield@21:1/5 to qkumba on Tue Dec 26 11:20:40 2023
    On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 15:51:30 -0800 (PST)
    qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> wrote:

    The second BLOAD starts at offset $2000 (via B$) in the file.

    I see that, but what does that result in? The AUX data starts at $2000
    in the file? I don't know what the file format actually is, so I can't
    make any conclusions about what it means. Thanks, though. I'm learning
    a lot.

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  • From fadden@21:1/5 to Bill Chatfield on Fri Dec 29 09:43:32 2023
    On 12/26/2023 8:20 AM, Bill Chatfield wrote:
    The second BLOAD starts at offset $2000 (via B$) in the file.

    I see that, but what does that result in? The AUX data starts at $2000
    in the file? I don't know what the file format actually is, so I can't
    make any conclusions about what it means. Thanks, though. I'm learning
    a lot.

    FWIW, https://ciderpress2.com/doc-index.html was created to make this
    sort of question easier to answer.

    In this case, https://github.com/fadden/CiderPress2/blob/main/FileConv/Gfx/DoubleHiRes-notes.md
    has a list of authoritative references (//e tech note #3, file type note $08/0000), and summarizes the standard file layout:

    "Double hi-res graphics screens are generally stored as a 16KB file. The
    first 8KB holds the aux RAM portion, the second 8KB holds the main RAM portion."

    The documents are stored in the CiderPress II source tree, next to the
    relevant code. If something is ambiguous, you can back up one level in
    the github source tree and open the converter source.

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  • From Bill Chatfield@21:1/5 to fadden on Sat Dec 30 12:11:36 2023
    On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:43:32 -0800
    fadden <fadden@fadden.com> wrote:

    FWIW, https://ciderpress2.com/doc-index.html was created to make this
    sort of question easier to answer.

    In this case, https://github.com/fadden/CiderPress2/blob/main/FileConv/Gfx/DoubleHiRes-notes.md
    has a list of authoritative references (//e tech note #3, file type
    note $08/0000), and summarizes the standard file layout:

    That is awesome! Thank you

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