Subj : xbin To : MRO From : Digital Man Date : Mon Mar 07 2022 20:37:06 Re: xbin By: MRO to Digital Man on Mon Mar 07 2022 09:28 pm > Re: xbin > By: Digital Man to MRO on Mon Mar 07 2022 01:20 pm > > > > well i did a trump bitmap and it didnt turn out so well. > > > https://i.imgur.com/tOgvBVM.png > > > > now i made sure i decreased the color. > > > Decreased... to one? Only monochrome bitmaps are supported. > > > > okay that's probably it. i did two colors. i dont think my editor did > monocrome. > > > > i'm just doing the show command and i > > > renamed it to trump.xb > > > now it turned out purple barf instead of green barf. > > > Renamed what? > > it creates multiple output files so i renamed one to make it simple. > > > Perhaps closely watch the status/errors reported when using "xbimage > > create". -- > it didnt do any errors Okay, it will now (if you try to convert a > 1-bit BMP to XBin). > ---- end ------ > > okay i used windows paint and saved as monocrome. > > it didnt turn out great. probably because of the white bg > https://i.imgur.com/oBJJopW.png I think you need to start with a better image. > i know years ago deuce was working on displaying image files like jpgs but > they were in a separate window. it would be nice if syncterm could display > a png in the client the way it can display these xb files. It's call Sixel, it displays in the same window. > i think that would be a big game changer for the client. It's been there for several years now. Check dura-bbs.net:6359 if you want to see some cool stuff being done with both SyncTERM fonts and Sixel from an Apple ][. > not sure if that's possible though without a big rewrite. It's already there. > looks like this format requires a lot of image tweaking and has a lot of > limitations. that's probably why it wasnt widely used. XBin images are compatible with SyncTERM 1.0. That's it's main feature. -- digital man (rob) Rush quote #53: He picks up scraps of conversation, radio and radiation .. Digital Man Norco, CA WX: 58.3øF, 16.0% humidity, 11 mph W wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705) .