On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 5:51 AM Ken Pettit <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/7/22 10:15 PM, B 9 wrote: > > Alright! I am excited to try out the T200 AsciiPixels. Maybe I'll do > something simple like adding proper ship graphics to TREK. > > > Yeah, that should be a fairly easy thing to do. I wrote some BASIC tools > for generating fairly simple graphics, though my flow for AsciiPixels > graphics is really to use GIMP on the Mac, export as a Pixel Bitmap (.pbm) > and then use my C program to convert to AsciiPixels. > Great! GIMP to pbm is perfect for me. Heck, pbm is so simple, I could create the bitmaps in a text editor: P1 7 14 0 0 *1 1 1* 0 0 0 *1 1 1 1 1* 0 *1 1 1 1 1 1 1 * *1 1 1* 0 *1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 * 0 *1 1 1 1 1* 0 0 0 *1 1 1* 0 0 0 0 0 *1* 0 0 0 *1 *0* 1 1 1 *0 *1 * *1 1* 0 *1* 0 *1 1 * *1* 0 0 *1* 0 0 *1 * *1* 0 0 0 0 0 *1 * *1* 0 0 0 0 0 *1 * *1* 0 0 0 0 0 *1 * That's a bitmap I got from the X11 cursors.pcf file. Perhaps you can guess what it is. > So TJONG is just a mockup, right? > > So far, yes, though it is an actual BASIC program running that is > generating a random board and then displaying the tiles using AsciiPixels. > I plan to turn it into an actual game. > I look forward to playing it and using it to show off my Tandy 200 as I have nothing else anywhere near as cool. —b9
