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from: BLuRry
date: 2009-01-14 22:03:58
subject: Re: Revenge of `Apple Crunch`

On Jan 14, 11:54=A0pm, lyricalnanoha
 wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, BLuRry wrote:
> > I can share the image conversion algorithm -- actually I have shared
> > it as part of the AGS 3 beta source. =A0It's java -- but it's not too
> > difficult to convert it over to C as long as you don't need to convert
> > non-hires colors. =A0I use Java to dither images down to a hi-res
> > palette, but everything else is all lookup tables and bit operations.
> > Somehow, I think it won't do much good since the java program manages
> > the menu list and the state of the menu as well.
>
> I treat it as monochrome.
>
> > Also, there was something on one of the beagle disks that transcribes
> > the text screen to the hi-res screen. =A0It was fairly fast -- but the
> > nice thing is you can make the hi-res menu more inexpensively in basic
> > using the beagle routine to draw the HGR screen after each text
> > update.
>
> It's on Silicon Salad. =A0Only thing is it doesn't support inverse
> lowercase, which is something I *really* want to be able to do.
>
> -uso.

Well, if you like the silicon salad one, I could probably implement
something similar -- just let me know what font dimensions you plan to
use. (40x24?)  (20x24?)  (20x12?)
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