VICart - picture slideshow

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VICart is a picture a slideshow featuring
208x208 graphics mode developed by Mike and Tokra.

VICart requires PAL VIC-20 with 24K memory expansion.

See Software Releases of 2020 for download.

[tokra]

Nice to see someone do something with these modes Mike and me developed some 10 years ago. Did you write your own converter? Or how did you get the pictures into the VIC? Some seem to be conversions some like the Rolling Stones-logo seem to be drawn? Can you tell us more about that?

Also: Why did you choose this mode and not one of the later ones that offer better resolutions and colour-flexibility like MFLI?

Note: I could only get the D64 to work when I activated True Drive Emulation in VICE.

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Nice to see someone do something with these modes Mike and me developed some 10 years ago. Did you write your own converter? Or how did you get the pictures into the VIC? Some seem to be conversions some like the Rolling Stones-logo seem to be drawn? Can you tell us more about that?

I adapted code from https://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/dither/jy/. Some pictures, like Stones logo, I did conversion to VIC palette and then hand edited with GIMP before conversion. I must admit that was a boring sunday afternoon job.

Also: Why did you choose this mode and not one of the later ones that offer better resolutions and colour-flexibility like MFLI?

Note: I could only get the D64 to work when I activated True Drive Emulation in VICE.

These two relate. A little easter quiz for you

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... and maybe you would like to test it on a real HW.

[Mike]

Niiiice!

These two relate. A little easter quiz for you

The 208x208 mode leaves enough CPU time (around 24 rasters per frame) to run a IRQ "fast" loader with a CBM floppy drive.

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The 208x208 mode leaves enough CPU time (around 24 rasters per frame) to run a IRQ "fast" loader with a CBM floppy drive.

Well done Mike