Re: Apple II Music Video - Welcome to the Jungle!!

["winston19842005@yahoo.com" <winston19842005@yahoo.com>]

Frank M. wrote:
> Continuing my previous experiments with rasterizing video on an //e,
> I've finished rendering all 6,462 frames for the music video to Guns N
> Roses "Welcome to the Jungle". Each frame is a single lo-res GR screen
> dump. Obviously this only will work on a machine with a CompactFlash
> drive or in an emulator.
>
>
> Download the GNR Disk Image here (32 Meg ProDOS 2MG image).....
>
> http://clients.kraftworksltd.com/download/GNR-FINAL.zip
>
> to run, boot from the drive and then enter
> "-exec.me.first"
> "-play.gnr"
>
>
> Here's how i got the files rendered.....
> 1. Export 1 JPG per frame from normal MPG movie (AppleScripted
> Quicktime)
> 2. Convert JPGs to indexed-color 40x48pixel TIFFs (custom Photoshop
> actions/palettes)
> 3. Drop TIFFs onto a disk image (tips hat to Andy McFadden for
> CiderPress)
> 4. Frames are rendered using a BASIC program from the TIFF file.
> 5. GR screen dumps saved to single binary files.
>
>
> It helps to squint and/or stand back like 10 feet when watching the
> video. Also, if you're in an emulator, try speeding the processor up to
> get a sense of what is possible if i only cleaned up my code.   ;)
>
> The frame displaying program is in BASIC, so if anyone has any ideas
> how to speed things up that would be great. I'm gonna assume that
> having less than 1500 entries per subdirectory would be a good place to
> start, as well as cleaning up my bad code or maybe programming in ML
> instead of BASIC. any ideas are welcomed!
>
>

Is there any other way to get these GR images?
You make me want to dust off my //-e, or at least download a new
emulator (pretty sure my 10 year old emulator is out-of-date).
Anybody got a screen-shot? Or something?
Do you think this would run on a Coleco Adam from tape? (bwg)

Can't help but think of porting this to other systems with a low-res
mode similar to GR either...