[Coco] 44-color display mode code images available

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 01:34:42PM -0600, Joel Ewy wrote:
> On 03/04/2013 08:39 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 06:40:03PM -0600, Joel Ewy wrote:
> >>On 03/03/2013 04:44 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> >>>...
> >>>
> >>>http://vdgtricks.blogspot.com/2013/03/curiouser-and-curiouser.html
> >>>
> >>>Enjoy!
> >>>
> >>>John
> >>This looks very cool, John.  I intend to load your pics up on my old
> >>CoCo (1) and see what they look in person.  It might just be
> >>exciting enough to motivate me to figure out how to use git so I can
> >>convert some photos of my own.
> >Just to consume it, the commands are simple:
> >
> >    git clone git://git.infradead.org/users/linville/vdgtricks.git
> >    cd vdgtricks
> >    make
> >
> >You will need gcc, ImageMagick, and toolshed installed.  Just copy the
> >image you want to display to "test.jpg" and the build will take care
> >of the rest.  The Makefile has the details of how the tools are used,
> >if you want to do the conversions manually.
> >
> >Hth!
> >
> >John
> Hey John,
> 
> I was able to use your program to convert and display a JPEG on my
> old 64K CoCo.  Pretty cool stuff.  Now we just need to make it so
> you can exit from the display program on a key press or after a
> certain length of time, so we could make a slideshow of it.

Either one of those should be fairly simple.  I'll have to add that
to the TODO list...

> Well done.

Thanks!

John
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