How to use IntyColor?

[+DZ-Jay]

OK, I'm putting my n00b hat on (or is it a helmet?). I have a BMP file and I want to display it in my IntyBASIC program. Here's what I expect to happen:

1. I run the image through IntyColor to convert it to DATA statements
2. I include the image data file in my main program
3. I call some fancy command in IntyBASIC with the label of my data
4. I specify the screen position where I want my graphic displayed
5. I run the program and get my cool looking graphic on the screen
6. ???
7. Profit

Here's what actually happen:

• I run the image through IntyColor to convert it to data statements
• IntyColor gives me a file full of DECLEs that I can call from Assembly Language
• I throw my arms up in confusion and frustration
• I go get a beer and sit down to watch re-runs of old shows in Netflix

*whimper* Help me! *whimper*

[GroovyBee]

You need the "-b" (without quotes) command line parameter before your bitmap file name.

[+DZ-Jay]

Whoa! Thanks. How come that is required and it doesn't give me an error?

[GroovyBee]

IntyColor generates files for assembler and basic. If you add the -b there is also a little display stub. You might want to use the "-n" command line flag to nuke that.

[+DZ-Jay]

IntyColor generates files for assembler and basic. If you add the -b there is also a little display stub. You might want to use the "-n" command line flag to nuke that.

 

I understand, but the usage help does not describe the "-b" flag. Without the "-b" flag, all other flags do absolutely nothing, and it always renders in assembly. The moment I added "-b" it started working as described.

 

Perhaps that flag should be mentioned in the usage.

 

-dZ.

[+DZ-Jay]

Success! I now have an image on the screen. Though the colours have been mangled. I'll work on the BMP then.

 

Thanks!

[GroovyBee]

Perhaps that flag should be mentioned in the usage.

You see it in the usage if you type intycolor with no parameters :-

 

Usage:

    intycolor image.bmp image.asm [label]
        Creates image for use with assembler code

    intycolor -b [-n] [-i] image.bmp image.bas [label]
        Creates image for use with IntyBASIC code

But it doesn't have its own description in the text below those lines.

[+DZ-Jay]

Oh crap. I didn't see the two usage lines, only the first one. I guess I was expecting that "-b" to be at the bottom (where I say it should be).

 

I think this would have been more clear:

Usage:

    intycolor image.bmp image.asm [label]
        Creates image for use with assembler code

    intycolor -b [-n] [-p] [-i] image.bmp image.bas [label]
        
    -b    Creates image for use with IntyBASIC code

    -n    Removes stub in IntyBASIC code
    -p    Uses PRINT in IntyBASIC code
    -o20  Starts offset for cards in 20 (0-63 is valid)
    -i    Generates BITMAP statements instead of DATA

[+DZ-Jay]

Anybody in for some ess-dee-kay?

 

[+DZ-Jay]

That was very easy. I just cleaned up the image a bit in MS Paint, then ran IntyColor. I only had to add the "include" directive in my empty file, et voilá!

 

-dZ.

[GroovyBee]

That was very easy. I just cleaned up the image a bit in MS Paint, then ran IntyColor. I only had to add the "include" directive in my empty file, et voilá!

Yep! Its a good tool for creating title pages for games. An advanced tool like the A8 scene's Quantizator would be pretty neat too. It'd be a ton of work to match graphics and then go for overlaid sprites with various shapes with X, Y position changes, magnifications and priority changes to get a good match.