I use a tool I coded in Delphi or whatever the free open source clone of it is called. It converts pngs into defbs and creates the palette but it needs the source image to be made up of the Sam palette accurate colours. It does not create valid screen$ files though as I have never needed to use them. The images are straight mode 4 ones. It does a bunch of other things like sprite masking and reversal. It is very rough but it does what I need it to do, it also works well under wine.
If it would be of use I could publish it online for anyone to use, but it is so specific to my dev environment I never thought to mention it really. Cheers Andrew On 14 Jun 2012, at 09:58, "Adrian Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: > For quick stuff I use edwin's scrviwer > (http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/edwin/software/scrviewer/scrviewer.ht > m) to save a bmp to a dsk then use dodgy basic code to convert the > screen$ to raw data. Other than that I sometimes write oneoff utils. I > still use comet to do the code :) Long term in the back of my mind I was > to use the TCP/IP stuff im working on to do a cross plat. Dev system to > real hardware, that's the ultimate :D > > Adrian > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Chris Cowley > Sent: 14 June 2012 09:31 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Cross-development tools > > Am starting to poke about a little more with Coupe development as time > permits and I wondered what, if anything, currently exists by way of > publicly-available cross-development tools. I have my favourite text > editor and pasmo set up, which I use for occasional speccy stuff, and > have augmented this with pyz80 (coz it writes out DSK files, which has > been handy). Have also got SAMdisk and DiskManager for manipulating disk > images, which seem to be working nicely, but... > > What I really could do with is a utility (preferably with a palette > editor) for drawing graphics (tiles, sprites) that runs on Windows and > spits out either DEFBs or binary files that I can INCBIN. Does such a > thing exist? Failing that, something that has a reasonable stab at > converting PNGs or GIFs into a form I can use in asm would be useful. > > What do you guys use to do this sort of stuff? And also are there any > other useful cross-development tools that I should be looking at? > > Cheers, > Chris. > > >
