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- Application : PicToASC
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- Help for Version 2.1 : (Fri 20th October 1995)
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- This program is designed to process a MODE 0 sprite and create an ASCII
- file that resembles it.
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- The sprite must be in MODE 0 and have no palette. Only the first sprite
- in the given file will be processed. The sprites when viewed in the
- desktop should be black on a white background.
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- The range of characters allowed can be set by choosing the 'Limits'
- option from the menu and setting the upper and lower limits within
- which all the charcters allowed will be. Spaces will always be allowed
- for the background but if you set the lower limit to 32 then spaces will
- be included in the comparison which gives a different result.
- To see the difference this makes convert a sprite using the default limits
- and then convert one with the lower limit set to 32. The smaller the
- range set in Limits the quicker the conversion will be.
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- Keeping the upper limit below 127 makes the resulting file more portable
- with regard to other types of computer as it excludes high ASCII.
- PicToASC uses the current character set of your computer so if you have
- included high ASCII in the limits the resulting file will only display
- properly on a computer using the same character set. I have included a
- system font definition file of the IBM graphics character set so if you
- want the file to be viewed on a IBM then run this file before draging a
- sprite to PicToASC. If using the IBM character set, run it just before
- dragging a sprite file to PicToASC as some of the characters normally used
- for window borders can be reset.
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- The best results usually occur when using the IBM graphic font with
- the limits set to 32-254.
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- Once you drag the save icon the the window of your choice the program
- will begin to process the file. A percentage hourglass will display
- the amount processed.
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- The text result produced by this program generally needs some manual
- re-touching with a text editor as the comparison algorithm isn't 100%
- accurate in it's results. Often the re-touching just involves changing
- a " . " to a " ' ". Setting the lower limit to 32 can sometimes lessen
- the degree to which this happens.
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- I can be contacted on Arcade BBS as
- Martin Hughes User #124
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- PS. Hi Tim!