26 Jan
2014
26 Jan
'14
4:14 a.m.
Zane Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> writes:
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.
You'll probably want to have a look at the kind of graphics
editing/conversion tools that are used in the C64 demoscene. The C64's
palette is pretty limited, and making use of the screen borders
effectively requires some trickery, but if you're willing to work within
the machine's constraints you can get surprisingly good results.
http://c64pixels.com/ has plenty of examples, but I'd also recommend
watching some of the more popular C64 demos to see the kind of graphics
that work well:
http://pouet.net/prodlist.php?platform[0]=Commodore+64&page=1&order…
http://csdb.dk/toplist.php?type=release&subtype=%281%29
There's a worked example of using some of the demoscene tools here:
http://ilesj.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/
Thanks,
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Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>