Re: Windows BMP to Hires BIN

[Doug Browning <wpg750@mb.imag.net>]

Does your windows machine have an image editor other than Paint, that can convert
image formats? If so, just convert your BMP images to GIF. Then use a null modem to
transfer the GIFs to the Apple, then use GIF][ (I think that's what it was called)
to convert the GIFs to HiRes or Double HiRes. You may have to reproportion the image
in GIF][ befor you save it as a HiRes file...

Jon Bettencourt wrote:

> >      As you suggested, B&W .bmp does seem to be mapped as simple 1 and 0 bits.
> > Assuming the .bmp mapping is linear writing a program to do the conversion
> > should not be too difficult.
> >
> >      Getting the .bmp onto a .dsk is easy enough using the DSK_IN utility.
>
> Yes, it is easy enough. In fact, I did copy the bitmap to an HDV image and
> tried to BLOAD it into HiRes. What a mess! I should have known that it
> wouldn't work, but one can always hope.
>
> > Once
> > you find the beginning of the .bmp data and decide whether odering is vertical
> > or horizontal (and find the direction of scanning), you just read in data from
> > the .bmp block and write it to the hires block doing the conversion necessary
> > for Apple's oddly arranged hires format.
>
> Now how do I determine where the bitmap is and how it is arranged? What is
> the difference between the ordering and the direction of scanning? How do
> I know it's linear? Does MS Paint always use the same format? If so, what
> is it?
>
> > (I highly recommend the project as a
> > worthwhile assem learning experience!)
> >
> >      An alternative is to upload the .bmp somewhere and request that someone
> > with a IIgs or IIgs emu do the conversion.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rubywand
>
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