Re: ASC2PIC: A viewer for solid style asciis - asc2pic.exe (1/1)
From Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
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· 2 Aug 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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.----- On 19 Jul 1998 19:09:37 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted: | |Well I tried your proggie out on the Dutch Dude big postings |(converted GIF style) and it worked OK except that when the screen |was filled although the program continued to run ( shown by the top |left hand corner inset box ) only the first 2.5 pictures were |visible and there was no way to scroll down to see the other pics. |So I guess there is a limit to input picture file length? '-------------------- Ahh yes, it wasn`t really intended for files bigger than 320x198 pixels. .-------------------- |I haven't tried it on a true GIF to ASCii conversion yet but I would |say your program makes it ASCII to GIF. In which case you need to |make provision to save your conversion to a file as well as just the |screen. '-------------------- I haven`t put in a save routine mainly because it was primarily a viewer program and I have only needed to save once, and for that I ran it in Windows and used Alt+PrtSc to take a screenshot of the window. Perhaps I`ll make a savey thing :o) .-------------------- |Whatever...it's quite clever and certainly makes Dutch Dude's |pictures look like real pictures...makes me wonder if Dude's |pictures are in fact actually GIF to ASCII conversions? 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What is definitely needed is |an option to save the output from ASC2PIC.EXE to a file...I haven't |yet tried simple piping using the DOS '>' filter. '--------------------- Yes I agree a save option is required, however don`t you need a licence to have a GIF encoding thingy in a program? It might be better to go for BMP instead, and it`ll be easier to save to as it`s uncompressed. Anyway, thanks for trying it and for all of the suggestions! Bye, Martin |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d4b98ce6323b0a12 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) Subject: Re: ASC2PIC: A viewer for solid style asciis - asc2pic.exe (1/1) Date: 1998/08/02 Message-ID: <35b...@news.vossnet.net> X-Deja-AN: 377267764 References: <35a...@news.vossnet.net> <900...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> Organization: Cable Internet (post doesn't reflect views of Cable Internet) Reply-To: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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