Re: Hires Graphics trouble

[Stephen Shaw <bottrawler@junkbuster.zzn.com>]

On 27 Jun 2002 20:22:54 -0700, Simon Williams wrote:

>> FWIW, these usually are 16K uncompressed files, with the 8K of main-memory
>> data followed by the 8K of auxiliary-memory data (IIRC; maybe it's the other
>> way around).  I never had trouble interchanging DHR image files with
>> 816/Paint, TimeOut Paint, and the BASIC programs I've written that use DHR
>> image files.  (Loading DHR images in BASIC usually requires some
>> assembly-language support routines, though I think there's a trick involving
>> /RAM that you can use to load an image with a couple of BLOADs, a BSAVE, and
>> some POKEs.)
>
> A-ha! it's 17k, so I guess it is Dougle Hi-Res... as usual the problem
> is with the human, not the machine.

Dougle Hi-Res? Is this a new form of Hi-Res? :) At 17k it is to small for Bill
Gates to have written - it would have been about 17 meg :)
 
>
> If anyone then can tell me how to load DHR from BASIC (if possible)
> that would be cool.
>
> SW

There must be some thing in Nibble, Compute or Call Apple.... If no one else
can
put forward anything I'll trawl through my copies.


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