25 Jan
2014
25 Jan
'14
10:15 p.m.
I'll be using a real Commodore-64 and probably a Commodore 2002 monitor. Getting
files to the C-64 isn't an issue, as I can simply put them on an SD card (I have two
different SD interfaces on the system. Now that I think about it, I wonder if the menu
program for the one interface includes an image viewer.
Ideally I'd want some sort of grey-scale image (B&W), but I'm not sure how
practical that is. I could just as easily hook something like an Amiga 3000 up to the
monitor, at which point the graphics portion would be fairly easy, but I really want the
primitive graphics of the C-64.
Zane
On Jan 25, 2014, at 9:21 PM, "drlegendre ." <drlegendre at gmail.com>
wrote:
Forgot the caveats - if you're using a *real* C-64
system, your image is
going to be limited to the capacity of a Commodore floppy, which is about
170K - and ultimately, to the video / system memory on the 64. So you'll
obviously have to convert the image (GIF, whatever) to a low-color, low-res
rendering.
I never did image exchanges back in the day, so I can't suggest a C-64
specific format that is also handled by a conventional image viewer /
manipulator like Irfanview and so forth.
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:12 PM, drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:
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The generic advice goes like this: You'll
need an image display software
on the C-64 side which handles *some* kind of reasonably standard image
format (GIF will be easiest, I believe). Then it's a matter of taking your
shot, importing it to PC and converting it to (GIF, whatever) and porting
it over to the C-64.
Find some GIF display software for the C-64 first, or whatever. After
that, it's just work-a-day stuff and a data transfer. =)
That help at all?
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Zane Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
Does anyone have any advice on how to take a
photograph and display it on
a Commodore 64? I have a rather crazy art project in mind.
Zane
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