[Coco] Micropainter Pics

[Joel Ewy]

So, to answer some of my own questions:

Micropainter does PMODE 4 pictures with artifact colors, not PMODE 3. 
Once I found a cassette player that didn't produce consistent I/O
errors, I found a little BASIC program I had saved that loads up and
displays the Micropainter pictures.

JCE

Joel Ewy wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> At some time in the past I apparently decided my Micropainter cartridge
> was somewhat expendable, and I de-soldered the ROM and put in a socket. 
> Not quite sure what I had in mind there.  Not quite sure I know exactly
> where the Micropainter ROM is, though I can probably dig it up.  I'm
> sure I can 'obtain' a copy of the ROM image and burn it into an EPROM of
> some sort (I may even have one or two 68766es, or whatever the 24-pin 8K
> UV EPROM chip is) if I can't find my original.  Before I go to the
> trouble of doing that, I wonder if there would be easier ways to rescue
> some Micropainter pictures off of cassette tapes.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1.  Does anybody know whether Micropainter works on the CoCo 3?  I don't
> recall that it doesn't, but...
> 2.  Can it be saved to and loaded from floppy disk?  (The program, not
> the images.)
> 3.  Is there any other program that can read in the Micropainter files
> and convert them to a less obscure format?  I think they may be PMODE 3,
> is that right?  In addition to the graphics data, I think they must have
> at least a bit to select the color set, or am I remembering wrong?
>
> Other ideas?  Maybe I'll play the tape into the PC sound card, load them
> up in an emulator, and do a screen grab.
>
> JCE
>
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