> Hi, can anyone help? > What program can I use to convert (digitized)pictures to Sam screen$ ? > What specifications (dimensions, number of colours) should that picture > on the pc have before conversion?
What I would do is - shrink the image to 256x192 but keeping 24 bit colordepth (using PaintShop Pro), Load the SAM palette into PaintShop Pro and ask it to match the nearest colours, Then reduce the color depth to 16 colours (using dithering or not, to taste); Finally, write the image out in 'raw' format into a file named image.dsk, pad this file out to 8192000 bytes; and write a small program in SimCoupe to read this data file and display it to the screen Oh, and you'll also need to save the resulting palette from PaintShop Pro to a file too, and transfer that in the same way. Its just a text file though so there's probably better ways to transfer it In fact there's probably better ways to do any/all of the above. (Guess I'm just an engineer at heart) Dave
