Looking for atari pictures/graphics

[Gunstar]

I've been re-collecting picture viewers and art programs for my Atari, but I'm having trouble finding pictures to actually view on them. For example, the Apacview and colorview programs that supposedly can load and view jpeg and gif pictures, but where can I find compatible jpeg and gif pictures. Or even pictures that have already been converted from those formats or created in apac or colorview's RGB modes on an atari.

 

Also looking for picture viewers and graphic drawing programs for the TIP and HIP and all other atari formats.

 

Where can I get Escalpaint (256/32,000 psuedo-color palette) paint program. Any other good paint programs for any software graphic modes?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

Edited October 3, 2011 by Gunstar

[+CharlieChaplin]

Well,

there are already dozens of pix, viewers and converters at atarionline.pl, e.g. take a look here: http://www.atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct=utils&sub=2.+Grafika&tg=EscalPaint#EscalPaint

and while you are at this site, don`t forget all the other pic formats (GIF and CPEG/JPEG viewers can also be found there)...

 

-Andreas Koch.

 

Edited October 3, 2011 by CharlieChaplin

[Gunstar]

Thank you very much. That site has pretty much got everything I'm looking for. I think I'd been there before, probably where I got all the stuff the first time around. But that was years ago and it's all pretty much been lost through several generations of PC's and hard drive crashes. I'm rebuilding now.

 

I just have a question for anyone out there, can I pretty much just download an display any jpeg or gif image, with the appropriate viewers regardless of file size or resolution and the viewers will downsize it for viewing on the 8-bit?

[+CharlieChaplin]

Well,

 

for GIF always use GIF87a pictures, since all A8 viewers (Apacview, JView, etc.) only support them and NOT GIF89a. For JPEG don`t use JPEG-2000 nor progressive JPEG`s, *most* others should work fine. Think I still found a lot of JPEG`s that did not display with A8JPEG or CPEGview, but I cannot tell what the problem was/is. Maybe JPEG has a lot of different headers or other differences besides the compression ratio and compression algorhythm. For example, when A8JPEG was still under development, it did not display any of my JPEG pix that were generated with an old WIN 3.11 / Win 95 program named "Picture Publisher". I informed the author about this and luckily he corrected his viewer, so all these JPEG`s work fine now. Still no clue what is wrong with the other JPEG`s that the viewer cannot display on the A8...

 

The TIF converter for the A8 is a very simple one, you have to "downsize" your TIF to 192x160 pixels and then you can convert it into a standard Gr. 15 picture on the A8 (it always saves with the same filename, so it is awkward to convert more than one file)...

 

For BMP there are several converters, most of them convert BMP to GR8 however. For Degas and IFF/LBM there are nice viewers by Jeff Potter, alas none of them is able to save a picture in A8 format (one can only view these pix on the A8)...

 

Last not least there are various PC programs to convert BMP, JPG or PNG (or other formats like PCX, GIF, etc.) into CIN, HIP, TIP and many many other formats, look out for AIS - Atari Interlace Studio, FAIL, G2F - Graph 2 Font, Quantizator, Tipconv., Tiptools, etc. etc. These PC programs can also be found at atarionline.pl, e.g. here: http://www.atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct=utils&sub=Z.+Inne+platformy&tg=PC#PC

 

Greetings, Andreas Koch.

 

P.S.: To convert various PC picture formats into a format you desire/require (e.g. for the A8) use Irfan View or XnView or similar converter programs...