a8isa1 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 Gort -SteveS a8isa1_gort.xex 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 Our Last Summer (Andersson/Ulvaeus 1980) The summer air was soft and warm The feeling right, the Paris night Did its best to please us And strolling down the Elysée We had a drink in each café And you- You talked of politics, philosophy and I Smiled like Mona Lisa. We had our chance It was a fine and true romance… I can still recall our last summer, I still see it all… Walks along the Seine; Laughing in the rain- Our last summer, Memories that remain… We made our way along the river And we sat down in the grass By the Eiffel tower. I was so happy we had met; It was the age of no regret Oh yes! Those crazy years, that was the time Of the flower-power But underneath we had a fear of flying; Of getting old, a fear of slowly dying- We took the chance Like we were dancing our last dance… I can still recall our last summer, I still see it all… In the tourist jam Round the Notre Dame- Our last summer, Walking hand in hand… Paris restaurants… Our last summer, Morning croissants… Living for the day, Worries far away- Our last summer, We could laugh and play… And now you're working in a bank, The family man, a football fan, And your name is Harry- How dull it seems! Yet you're the hero of my dreams… I can still recall our last summer, I still see it all… Walks along the Seine; Laughing in the rain- Our last summer, Memories that remain… I can still recall our last summer I still see it all… In the tourist jam; Round the Notre Dame- Our last summer, Walking hand in hand… Paris restaurants… Our last summer. Morning croissants… Living for the day, Worries far away- Our last summer, We could laugh and play… drpeter_Agnetha.xex 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 Kate Beckinsale (as Anna Valerious in Van Helsing, 2004) 36 colours drpeter_Kate.xex 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Belcroute Bay Jersey, English Channel Islands 60 colours drpeter_Belcroute.xex 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 42 minutes ago, drpeter said: Belcroute Bay Jersey, English Channel Islands 60 colours drpeter_Belcroute.xex 21.94 kB · 4 downloads Beautiful as usual. Apologies if this has been discussed previously. What palette are you using to do these? Also, if you are using an emulator and doing NTSC, what is the preferred palette? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 6 hours ago, Stephen said: What palette are you using to do these? Also, if you are using an emulator and doing NTSC, what is the preferred palette? I nearly always use the Altirra palette and ciede color distance for the pre-process and yuv color distance for the conversion. I used to use the laoo palette more in the past, particularly if unsaturated colours in the source image led to too many greys in the converted image, but now generally prefer to stick to the Altirra palette and adjust saturation etc. more in the source image before importing to RastaConverter. I have done PAL conversions only, using the Altirra emulator to display the converted images, so unfortunately cannot comment or advise on NTSC conversions. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+gnusto Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 This could be a bit better in fine detail, but I like the color range. PAL palette. ww.xex 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Itsukushima Shrine - Torii at Sunset Itsukushima, commonly known as Miyajima, is an historic sacred island, set in the Seto inland sea by Hiroshima, Japan. The island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and best known for its 'floating' vermilion Shinto torii gate, which at high tide is surrounded by sea. There are numerous shrines, temples, sacred deer and other attractions scattered across the island which is a popular tourist destination. 69 colours drpeter_Torii.xex 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 (edited) On 12/7/2019 at 1:57 AM, drpeter said: I nearly always use the Altirra palette and ciede color distance for the pre-process and yuv color distance for the conversion. I used to use the laoo palette more in the past, particularly if unsaturated colours in the source image led to too many greys in the converted image, but now generally prefer to stick to the Altirra palette and adjust saturation etc. more in the source image before importing to RastaConverter. I have done PAL conversions only, using the Altirra emulator to display the converted images, so unfortunately cannot comment or advise on NTSC conversions. Altirra palette and YUV for conversions is are my standards as well. I use others on occasion, depending on the image, especially Laoo, OlivierP and Jakub when I am dealing with skin tones, and I usually use Ciede or Cie94 color distance when working with skin tones as well. For pre-process I use the the same color distance as the conversion. Mine are also all PAL unless specified NTSC, but I've pretty much given up on doing NTSC conversions as Rastaconverter just seems to have a hard time dealing with NTSC palettes properly, especially lots of false greens and blues that should be grays and blacks. Rastaconverter was written for PAL, and it's a kludge with NTSC. Luckily I converted my NTSC 1200XL to PAL about a year before I got into Rastaconverter, or I probably would have given up long ago and there would not have been hundreds of images done by me. For better or worse... I have been busy doing conversions of late, but they are for the 2020 New Years disk, so people will have to wait for it to see my latest conversions. I'll be back strong with more conversions in the new year... Edited December 17, 2019 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 4 hours ago, drpeter said: Itsukushima Shrine - Torii at Sunset Itsukushima, commonly known as Miyajima, is an historic sacred island, set in the Seto inland sea by Hiroshima, Japan. The island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and best known for its 'floating' vermilion Shinto torii gate, which at high tide is surrounded by sea. There are numerous shrines, temples, sacred deer and other attractions scattered across the island which is a popular tourist destination. 69 colours drpeter_Torii.xex 22.11 kB · 6 downloads That's a well mix of available details and playing with the available colors, not too much transitions and banding. Looking good on a big screen , and stunning on an old TV set. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Lord Summerisle The late Christopher Lee stars in cult British horror flick The Wicker Man, 1973 30 colours drpeter_LordSummerisle.xex 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 Klingon Light Show. 58 colors. KlingonLightshow.xex 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+gnusto Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 Had to let this one run for quite a bit before it settled down. The always gorgeous Christina Ricci. Palette is set for PAL, as I really can't find an NTSC palette that works for RastaConvert. RicciFace.xex 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 The USS Dumont. 42 colors. USSDumont3.xex 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 USS Ranger NCC-1750. 42 colors. USSRanger1750.xex 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 USS Ares NCC-1450. 36 colors. USSAresNCC1450.xex 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Holy crap man - so many new images. I am gonna fire up the 1088XLD after dinner and run a slideshow on the CRT! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 Sorry if this one missed the "slide show" @Stephen , but here is another conversion. USS Hermes NCC -1540. 41 colors. USSHermesNCC1540.xex 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 Thunderbolt (Babylon 5). 61 colors. B5Thunderbolt.xex 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 White Star (Babylon 5). 49 colors. B5WhiteStar.xex 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 On 12/16/2019 at 5:09 PM, drpeter said: Itsukushima Shrine - Torii at Sunset Itsukushima, commonly known as Miyajima, is an historic sacred island, set in the Seto inland sea by Hiroshima, Japan. The island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and best known for its 'floating' vermilion Shinto torii gate, which at high tide is surrounded by sea. There are numerous shrines, temples, sacred deer and other attractions scattered across the island which is a popular tourist destination. 69 colours drpeter_Torii.xex 22.11 kB · 20 downloads That would look great inserted into Mastertronix's Ninja [Mission].... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 Tiger Claw (Babylon 5). 44 colors. B5TigerClaw.xex 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 That's pretty good though the source material lends well to "lack of colour" in that it's mostly shades of grey. And lends well to poor horizontal resolution in that most of the detail requires vertical res. It'd be a great candidate for a 480i version of RC - I've been meaning one day to do a hack to produce that. But it would be 2 seperate pics running on alternate fields and each would posess it's own artifacts which would likely be different to the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mytek Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 There are a lot of great conversions in this topic. I was wondering if there is slide show viewer that can be used on a CF drive to automatically load whatever pics are in the same directory as the viewer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 (edited) On 12/29/2019 at 2:10 AM, mytek said: There are a lot of great conversions in this topic. I was wondering if there is slide show viewer that can be used on a CF drive to automatically load whatever pics are in the same directory as the viewer? with joystick or start key or return key I use a spartados x command LS *.XEX >>RASTER.BAT inside the folder holding the CF partition. Then use the -batfile command or add alphabetical option LS A*.XEX >>ALLA.BAT --- LS Z*.BAT >>ALLZ.BAT the alphabetical option is for when you acquire more than you can endure in on sitting. Edited December 31, 2019 by Roydea6 to add alphabetical option 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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