Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by mrrik » Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:56:25 GMT

Hello.
Now You can view Rene Magritte paintings with Your real Oric.

http://www.geocities.com/nemrout/oric/pictures.html

About 300 paintings in .tap files available for download.

Easy transfer to a tape or CD with tap2wav or tap2cd by Fabrice
Frances (http://oric.free.fr)

Please, don't blame me...
I think it is really cool to view Magritte with Oric.
If it was 20 years ago...
At least many pictures looks interesting in Oric hires format.

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by Steve Marshall » Wed, 29 Sep 2004 03:25:01 GMT



"norik" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > wrote



These are rather good !
I'm just downloading them to see how they look on the Oric.


Steve M

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by Mickael Pointier » Wed, 29 Sep 2004 06:03:11 GMT

> Hello.

Whaou, didn't know that PictConv would be used for such a thing !
That's cool, some of the paintings appears to be very nice looking even with
my crap dithering algorithm :)

Dbug

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by mrrik » Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:27:27 GMT


Yes, Thank You very much for PictConv!
As U may notice already, I used Windows version (in Linux version
there are some constraints) via wine. It is looks funny, that it
Windows app works cool as a part of unix shell script ;)

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by Han Karlsson » Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:27:57 GMT


"norik" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > skrev i meddelandet


Hi
These paintings look pretty good on the Oric. Nice job!

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by Zouplaz » Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:51:04 GMT

norik - XXXX@XXXXX.COM :


Really cool !
By the way... What is the size of a full screen picture (oric encoded) ?

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by mrrik » Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:06:23 GMT


It is a size of Oric Hires, about 8kb...
a000-bfe00
or size 0f any of Magritte .tap files - header (16 byte AFAIK)

;)

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by Peter (TheSpider) » Sat, 02 Oct 2004 07:20:34 GMT

Hiya Norik,




You worked very hard my friend using the converter software to generate
these wonderful pictures.
As you said, they are in .tap format.
For anyone that has access to virtual or real disks, here are the same
pictures (the colour ones) on four .dsk's.
The first 3 disks have 80 pictures each with the format RMXXX.HRS where XXX
is a number.
The fourth disk has 13 pictures.
I have not included any menu software (as yet), but you can use the command
VIEWHIRES to see a slideshow of the pics.
Each disk is set up as a master, and is write protected, as are the image
files.

http://oricspider.home.insightbb.com/software/RMNORIK.zip

This was fun to do.
The only slight problem I had was that each .tap file included a small basic
program and the image.
This meant that when I wrote a program to load each file, the basic program
in the .tap file would then take over.
Therefore, I wrote these two small simple programs...

10 ' L.COM
20 INPUT"RM NUMBER";T$
30 T$="RM"+T$+".TAP"
40 CLOAD T$

10 ' S.COM
20 INPUT"RM NUMBER";T$
30 T$="RM"+T$+".HRS"
40 ESAVE T$

Saving them both as ,AUTO meant that L & S became commands on their own,
something I love about Sedoric.
After issuing the command, I would then simply enter in the filenumber for
loading and saving.

On the subject of numbers, Norik -> there are 253 pics in total, yet your
number scheme is from 001 to 329 ???

Peter 'TheSpider' Paterson
A Scotsman in Kentucky
Believer in the Lord Jesus Christ
Homepage : http://thespider.0catch.com
NP: "The Orchestra - No Rewind"

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by mrrik » Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:19:42 GMT


Thank You!
In next time I will converting images I'll think about creating HRS
files ;)

Interesting, I didn't count them.
I know that I have big collection downloaded from somewhere, and there
is many pictures, more than 300, and I didn't include pictures, that
doesn't look pretty good on oric. And in the b/w pictures U may notice
some paintings that didn't included in coor ones because they didn't
looks nice in colour, and some pics didn't looks nice in b/w, so they
are'nt included.
Anyway thank U for this kind of enthusiasm.
Good Luck

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by Mickael Pointier » Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:48:07 GMT

> Interesting, I didn't count them.

Actually, it's possible to put even more pictures on the floppy, by using
FilePack.
There is an example in the OSDK that uses PictConv to convert a picture, and
then FilePack to compress them, there's the full source code to display the
packed picture on the oric.

Dbug

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by mrrik » Wed, 06 Oct 2004 18:59:28 GMT


Utils like FilePack is one of most necessary utils for any computer!

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by drhirudo » Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:38:34 GMT


I have graphics compressor for Oric in a magazine from 1990, but don't
have the time to type it. But I'd guess any compression technic will
work for Oric graphics, since the case is compression-uncompression
without losing data (unlike the jpeg, mp3, video mpeg and similar
video compressions, where the unpacked data doesn't match the
original).

--
http://drhirudo.hit.bg

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by mrrik » Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:57:40 GMT


Can You scan and post here a link to the scanned picture, so somebody
from us ( may be me) can type it?

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by drhirudo » Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:54:13 GMT


Ok I've typed it this morning:

http://drhirudo.edula.com/oric/Kompresor.zip

along with the instructions and translated them to English.

I've also updated the Electric Duet archive with 21 new demo songs, some days ago.

--
http://drhirudo.hit.bg

Oric computers >> 300 Rene Magritte paintings viewable with Oric now!

by mrrik » Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:17:58 GMT

> Ok I've typed it this morning:



Thank You very much.