I have a graphics conversion tool which was written by Phoebus
Dokos -
to convert images designed on the PC into QL images (certainly for
hi-res modes) - I can't remember if it can convert to mode 4 or mode
8 though, or even if Phoebus would be willing to let it loose into
the public domain
Phoebus... where are you lurking?
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Rich Mellor
RWAP Services
This program is called BMP2PIC and is available from the Graphics page
on my website. It's a Windows program, which converts Windows BMP
files to the QL. Phoebus gave me permission back then to make it
available. I can't remember exactly, but I think that despite the name
it converts to QL screens, not PIC files (like Rich, it's a long time
since I last used it.
Also on the same page there are various QL programs to convert various
PC formats to QL graphics.
There's Wolfgang Lenerz's BMP conversion extensions, written as BASIC
extensions allowing you to write your own program around them.
There's also my own BMP program which converts Windows BMP files into
QL screens or PIC files (screens with a 10 byte header holding size
and colour mode information). While this can convert to the standard
QL low colour modes, it doesn't do a articularly good job.
Malcolm Lear's BASIC bmp2scr programs show how to write conversion
routines in BASIC (can't remember if SBASIC or SuperBASIC, sorry)
There's also the Generalised Bitmap Modules and Photo-QL package from
Roberto Porro.
Dave Westbury's Photon will let you view JPEGs on a QL. I think the
version on my site is a viewer only - it doesn't save the JPEG on a
QL, but it is easy to get it to display a JPEG and while it is doing
that you can use a screen snatcher or image grabbing program to grab a
copy of the QL display. Dave was at one stage contemplating updating
Photon to accept passed channels for input and output - I think he was
proposing something like EX #input_channel,#output_channel,Photon
(can't remember the correct syntax, sorry). I don't know whether he
ever got that far with the program, though.
The page is at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/graphics/index.html if you want
to browse what's available
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