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G O D O T G I F S
by Dave Moorman
The picture is a classic clip off
television. The ever-resourceful
McGyver hurries into a room, finds a
Commodore 64, and quickly does his ad
lib wonders with it.
Interestingly, it seems that his
hands only touch the Function keys and
the RETURN. Must be a nice, pre-Mr.
Mouse program, eh? Even more
interesting -- there is no datasette,
no 1541, no 1581, no RAMLink, no HD,
no CD-ROM! Exactly how does our
favorite finagler get a program up and
running?
But for our purposes, it really
doesn't matter. For we have Arndt
Dettke, the "god of GoDot" himself
(OK, I couldn't resist the
alliteration!) to walk us through the
steps of taking a complex GIF photo
and making an impressionistic graphic
of some respectability.
Arndt works from the orginal GIF,
which I pre-manipulated with Adobe
PhotoShop to fit the C-64 screen. If
you have a PC (or Mac) and some fairly
sophisticated image processing, you
can do this yourself.
1. Reduce the image to 320 x 240
pixels. This is the proper aspect
ratio for a C-64 screen (in theory).
2. Scrunch the image to 320 x 200.
This is the actual pixel size of the
C-64 screen.
3. Convert the image into a [non]-
interlaced GIF file. GoDot does not
recognize interlaced GIFs.
4. Port the file over to the C-64
and have at it! Remember, to load a
GIF into GoDot, you must select the
GIF Loader (upper left corner button)
[and] choose the Convert GIF Mod
(lower right corner button).
5. When you bring a GIF into GoDot,
you have three options: Color, Gray 9,
and Gray 16. The Run It program for
this article shows you the effects of
these three Methods.
I have put Arndt's article in a
Read It file, so you can easily print
it out. The Run It offers the two
results he achieved.
I am hearing that GoDot is proving
to be great fun for many of you. We
are always interested in seeing what
you have done. Again, "before" and
"after" articles concerning the many
Modules will help all of us master
this graphic masterpiece.
DMM