| Converting PETSCII to (animated) GIF or (A)PNG [message #408580] |
Tue, 01 June 2021 03:18  |
Tristan Miller
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Greetings.
In the early 1990s I used to run a BBS that hosted many SEQ files
containing PETSCII graphics, including C64 colour and cursor control
codes. When the files were transmitted to users at 1200 baud, they
produced clever and beautiful animations. I'd like to convert these
animations to a format that can be easily viewed from a modern web browser.
So does anyone know of a free, preferably command-line tool that will
convert my PETSCII animations to an animated GIF or APNG? I know I
could write a simple CBM BASIC program to view the files, run it in
VICE, capture the emulator output to a video file, extract the
individual frames with ImageMagick, and then reassemble them into an
animated GIF using gifsicle. But that's a rather kludgy process that
requires a lot of manual intervention for each and every file I want to
convert; I was hoping there might be some dedicated tool that I could
just run directly on a given SEQ file and automagically get a GIF or
APNG as output.
Regards,
Tristan
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| Re: Converting PETSCII to (animated) GIF or (A)PNG [message #408750 is a reply to message #408700] |
Sun, 06 June 2021 14:20  |
Tristan Miller
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Greetings.
On 04/06/2021 11.35, Rob Swindell wrote:
> Re: Converting PETSCII to (animated) GIF or (A)PNG
> By: Tristan Miller to All on Tue Jun 01 2021 09:18 am
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>> Greetings.
>>
>> In the early 1990s I used to run a BBS that hosted many SEQ files
>> containing PETSCII graphics, including C64 colour and cursor control
>> codes. When the files were transmitted to users at 1200 baud, they
>> produced clever and beautiful animations.
>
> Do you happen to have an archive of those SEQ files available for download
> somwhere? They'd be useful to demo/test the PETSCII support in my BBS software
> (www.synchro.net).
No, just what I have on floppies somewhere. I haven't yet gotten around
to copying them to a modern PC, in part because I don't have one of
those specially modified drives that would let me read the flip-side of
a double-sided disk with Kryoflux.
Regards,
Tristan
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| Re: Converting PETSCII to (animated) GIF or (A)PNG [message #408781 is a reply to message #408750] |
Mon, 07 June 2021 18:10 |
Glenn P.,
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On 06-Jun-21 at 2:20pm -0000, <psychonaut@nothingisreal.com> wrote:
> ...in part because I don't have one of those specially modified
> drives that would let me read the flip-side of a double-sided
> disk with Kryoflux.
> Regards,
> Tristan
I say, why couldn't you just turn the disk over...???
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| Re: Converting PETSCII to (animated) GIF or (A)PNG [message #408785 is a reply to message #408580] |
Mon, 07 June 2021 03:06 |
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Originally posted by: nospam.Al.DeRosa
On 06 Jun 2021, Rob Swindell said the following...
RS> >
RS> > No, just what I have on floppies somewhere. I haven't yet gotten aroun
RS> > to copying them to a modern PC, in part because I don't have one of
RS> > those specially modified drives that would let me read the flip-side of
RS> > a double-sided disk with Kryoflux.
RS>
Jim Brain from RetroInovations has what is called a Zoomfloppy device, you
install some drivers on your PC and hook this thing up to a USB port and then
a CBM drive to the zoomfloppy. You can then copy disks to .d64 images. Works
great and does a great job getting the disks copied.. That is if you have a
Commodore Disk Drive.. If not then the only thing is the Greaseweazel like
you said....
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