Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter - Christmas Edition

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daniel_baum
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Re: Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter - Christmas Edition

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tofro wrote:
daniel_baum wrote:Hello,

Running this version on my Q68, I get squashed graphics on the left of the screen. Anyone have a fix for this?

D.
What DISP_MODE are you using?
Hi,

Mostly Mode 6, but I also tried Modes 2 and 3. All gave the same results. It DOES work in Mode 0, so it would seem that the problem is with the 16-bit colour modes.

D.


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Re: Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter - Christmas Edition

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Hello,

It works very nicely on QPC2. Thanks again for a great job!

D.


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Re: Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter - Christmas Edition

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I'm currently collecting error reports for a "final fix" mid January, that will also make the interlaced mode work on more platforms and a slightly improved colour threshold between pages (I have a version here that shamelessly steals the IPC comms code from SMSQ/E to make the keyboard work (by bypassing the ROM) on Minnie ROMs.

So, please: Keep them going!

Tobias


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Re: Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter - Christmas Edition

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I finally came around to
  1. Publish the source code on Github
  2. Fix some nasty bugs
  3. Implement proper on-the-fly Floyd-Steinberg dithering for MODE 8 graphics - looks much nicer now on a real QL. (activate with "-f")
PawnGuru.png
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(I'm pretty sure I meant "mid January 2022" in my previous post. Thus, I'm only 4 months late...)


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Re: Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter - Christmas Edition

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Wow, that looks pretty cool for QL standards, well done :-)


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Spectacular! Any chance of you sharing your "proper on-the-fly Floyd-Steinberg dithering for MODE 8 graphics"?


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Re: Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter - Christmas Edition

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pjw wrote:Spectacular! Any chance of you sharing your "proper on-the-fly Floyd-Steinberg dithering for MODE 8 graphics"?
Agree, Per. Looks like some excellent work went on here!


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Re: Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter - Christmas Edition

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Downloaded and tried it on QPC II yesterday evening. Never played The Pawn before, thank you very much for this excellent contribution to the QL community!


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pjw wrote:Spectacular! Any chance of you sharing your "proper on-the-fly Floyd-Steinberg dithering for MODE 8 graphics"?
You mean, like in source code shared on GitHub or something like that? :-P It's in ql_c function RGB8ToQLiFS ;-)


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Re: Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter - Christmas Edition

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tofro wrote:(I'm pretty sure I meant "mid January 2022" in my previous post. Thus, I'm only 4 months late...)
:D Amazing work! Unfortunately I'm poor in actually playing, but it is very impressive!


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