so what is the .BA file?
On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 11:19, Ken Pettit <petti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Feasible? Yes. Slow? ABSOLUTELY! > > This is the reason I created AsciiPixels. It provides two main features > critical to the M100: > > 1. It is machine language graphics routines, so it is blazingly fast > relative to BASIC. > 2. It provides a level of image compression similar to Linux 'xz' > compression in most cases: > > Full screen image (i.e. image size is 240 x 64 pixels): > > dragon.do 825 bytes This is the APRAW encoding > dragon.ap 640 bytes AsciiPixels encoding > dragon.pbm.xz 628 bytes Linux xz compression > dragon.bmp 2178 bytes > dragon.pbm 1969 bytes Original non-compressed 1-BPP > bitmap: > 240x64 pixels / 8 pixels/byte = > 1920 + header > > Ken > > On 12/15/22 9:20 AM, Cedric Amand wrote: > > I remember from my "demoscene era times" that bmp decoding is actually > quite simple. > It might be feasible to decode a BMP in plain basic on a T100/T200 imho. > > > > Le 2022-12-15 10:12, VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN <jan.vandenboss...@vivaqua.be> > <jan.vandenboss...@vivaqua.be> a écrit : > > It might be difficult to code, but would a conversion to BMP not be > possible? Considering the never-changing nature of the Model T's screen > (240x64, monochrome) it shouldn't take too much place. Even if .BMP is a > wastefull standard, it would give an easy way to interchange screendumps > and logos to and from the Model T. > > > > >
