BMC - Show 'em up in colour.
(BMC = Bitmap Multicolor)
or
Author's description
8-color mode for the Spectrum.
music by DNK
(C) Reseath.
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So, I'm from the Research Group VolgaSoft, is pleased to
present you a shell '3 Color 'written by the guys from Virt
Group.
The program is based on the method of adding primary colors
created by me and first presented in our demo
called 'Pops'. The effect then cruelly ate all the speed Z-80
and worked wheelbarrows to provide no less than 68,400
cycles (6144 * 10.5 768 * 5 + about300), onymi
proved to be my 777, Pentagon, Composite,
turbocharged car ... Mik made from VG
your code into two screens, plus a universal set fixup, and
Creator all rolled into shell, and now you ready '3 color '-
enjoy!
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VolgaSoft rulez,
or how it all began ...
I guess I'm not alone fought over such effects by
experimenting with two screens, changing colors, etc., but with
two screens three to go or who do not dare.
It all began in the late 95 th. Steal'a
zabrfali the army and the band cracked. I
plagued his PCyuk, Cache, and Phantom - Amiga.
Sometimes collected, played, watched demos, pictures
ditheren'nye me. Two Colors seemed a little and I decided to
write a prog that would do multicolor'y a la Satisfaction
megademo. Tests of this software were deplorable, according to
this it was decided koordinalno change the approach to this
issue. Again created a whole heap optimizer'ov, posterizer'ov,
convert'orov, which again did not give conclusive results. Then
came graduation / entrance exam, released in August by viewing
the demo brought back from Leningrad, I decided to make a
multicolor
64 * 86 as a Busy in Echology.
... Night, the birds are singing, in a radius of 30m or
soul, DJResearch Ltd sits wrote ORG
25000 and thinks it would be nice to go
a spa-aa-at ... And then this stuff and then synchronize ...
And can do here so ... "
And I dashed off recoder images in 3
bit plane'a, skidyvaya LDIR'om in their third
screen. Then two, then the whole ...
The first time I dragged in such a way that almost two
nights not sleeping and felt tired,
all shaking and shaking ....
Let us Now for the processing of images, without which, in
fact, BMC, and a penny not worth. I do not know why Got
father paid so little attention to this subject, most likely
something he does not know something do not agree, I, in turn,
I know a few more than RGB, so will explain more in detail.
The only problem is - to share a picture on the main composes
R / G / B, and otditerit (Dither) each of them, then converted
into 1-bit format and send x on the Spectrum.
Now, the examples (for PC).
First remove the following software:
1) Corel Photo-Paint - part of the
package Corel Draw
- 2) SEA (handy for viewing the files of
and converting images from one format to another, including
those with cuts colors)
3) GWS 6.xx Dos (Graphic WorkShop) - see
below
4) PV 2.xx - convenient for both the converter and takes up
little space 5) Photo Finish (v1.xx - v3.xx) - until the pile.
In principle, one can do a Photo-Paint'om. Ideal option when
You have pp.1-4.
- Corel Photo-Paint for editing
original image (resize,
brightness, contrast, etc.) for separation into RGB (click
Image / Split channels to / RGB), 1 bit of dithering (item
Image / Convertto / Black and white (1 bit) / Screen halftone.
Divide the image 3 (R / G / B), otditerite each and translate
on the Spectrum.
- GWS (Dos) allows you to immediately translate
Zoom in eight fixed colors
(N. Effects / Colour reduction / Stucki / Fixed
ight colours).
The question immediately arises, what to do
Next?
If you have three single-bit images of size 256 * 192 - to
ship them in formate.BMP, drag on Speccy "bite off" the first
62 bytes, and ... transferring them from consistent format
sprite (in addition upside down) in the Spectrum screen format.
If you are "washed out" color in the GWS is either
divide the image in Photo-Painte on RGB (n.
Image / Split channels to / RGB), then transferred to 1-bit (n.
Image / Convert to / Black and white / Line art), Apostle of
which see the previous paragraph, or do your analyzer /
translator / interpreter / converter, or wait until the Lord be
upon you are my new Convert!.
I must say that the first picture "butchered" in the Photo
Finish'e (rather buggy thing), Dieter in GWS, and everything
else did spektrum.Teper, I almost finished the analyzer on a
PC, was soon released, Then "life will become better, life will
become fun. "
I am not a word mentioned about the Amiga - a little
any of amizhnikov is 5''FDD, poetomu.ILBM we moved v.PCX being
shipped to 720kb MS-DOS disk, and is cut "again on the PC.
If someone would write a parser
on the Spectrum - kratko.TGA So you have
8-color picture of size 256 * 192
pixel otditerinnaya in GWS (by the way it is
Once we know that it is in eight colors). Its size: 18 bytes to
a descriptor 768 bytes of palette 256 * 192 bytes himself
raster, a total of 49,938 bytes. Descriptor does not need, your
task - to build in accordance with a palette of three ruling,
because GWS in palette spread chaos (can meet
several similar colors), turn
and convert these bitmaps to Spectrum
format.
It was only a brief example of the use of software, get,
experiment, and do not stop there! Use Photoshop (a great
opportunity but inhibits) and Corel Xara (super thing!).
Harness the power of graphic editors - this will allow Ulush
quality pictures and clear up some extra points, and
better still draw directly in eight colors,
in order to abandon the dithering, and hence not
lose money. And best of refuse
Translation portraits - they and 256 flowers from
262,144 small and eight nothing at all, it is better
translate fantastic scenery - they
almost the entire spectrum of colors, and look
beautiful.
Work on "coloring" Spectrum
continues and I am researching for a new BMC. If anyone has
suggestions, you owl, questions - write to the ZX-Format.
If you really want to push through - see pictures on TV, the
whose kinescope of a delta-shaped arrangement of electron guns
(61lk3ts, 4ts) reduce flicker until help sunglasses.
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Now I devote you to some of the projects VS. So, we released
the "POPS DEMO", assembler XAS / VS 9.07, which is smaller than
similar to the old XAS (64 characters, rapid
calculations, fixed all the bugs, a lot of extras ...), now
written COPY'97 - copies of MS-DOS in TR-DOS, CONVERT! make
ready for use in 3Color'e file iz.TGA after treatment in
GWS (written on the PC), a new assembler runs with the second
screen, and the main project - a totally unique 4-x
channel music editor RIFF TRACKER, Card GENERAL SOUND, which
You can pisat.MOD 's long to 128kb! In
Togliatti branch of VS (and there are such) is preparing to
release a new game "BLOOD". It is a pity that I was not there,
I would help Cache'u with graphics, so if you draw, and you
live in Togliatti - please call
Tel. 11/30/1935 (Constantine)
That's all.
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