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Re: Apple II weather display

Subject: Re: Apple II weather display
From: Scott Alfter <salfter@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:25:19 -0700 (PDT)
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On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:10:26 AM UTC-7, BLuRry wrote:
> Likewise, it's overall faster to convert the video to apple format on
> the PC side and transfer as raw data directly into the hires memory
> than it is to transfer as an intermediate format and have the apple
> interpret it and plot individual pixels.

This.  20 or so years ago, I had cobbled together a crude PBM-to-double-Hi-Res converter that I could stick at the end of a series of commands to convert images in just about any format available to something my green-screen-equipped IIe could display.  16K at 2400 bps didn't take an inordinately long time to download, and the results were usually better than programs like IIGIF would produce.

Scott

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- Re: Apple II weather display
  - From: BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>

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