Re: Revenge of "Apple Crunch"

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Jan 14, 11:54 pm, lyricalnanoha
<lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, BLuRry wrote:
> > I can share the image conversion algorithm -- actually I have shared
> > it as part of the AGS 3 beta source.  It's java -- but it's not too
> > difficult to convert it over to C as long as you don't need to convert
> > non-hires colors.  I use Java to dither images down to a hi-res
> > palette, but everything else is all lookup tables and bit operations.
> > Somehow, I think it won't do much good since the java program manages
> > the menu list and the state of the menu as well.
>
> I treat it as monochrome.
>
> > Also, there was something on one of the beagle disks that transcribes
> > the text screen to the hi-res screen.  It was fairly fast -- but the
> > nice thing is you can make the hi-res menu more inexpensively in basic
> > using the beagle routine to draw the HGR screen after each text
> > update.
>
> It's on Silicon Salad.  Only thing is it doesn't support inverse
> lowercase, which is something I *really* want to be able to do.
>
> -uso.

Well, if you like the silicon salad one, I could probably implement
something similar -- just let me know what font dimensions you plan to
use. (40x24?)  (20x24?)  (20x12?)