enuffsaid Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 (edited) Hello all, I have been thinking about these apps I've used on my Apple II+ that I can't seem to find anywhere. One is a program what would scan tracks and sectors and dump the data to the hi-res screen. This way you could find images from a game, manipulate them, and write them back to the disk. The other one was a program that lets you make those nice scrolling effects of those pirate screens. It would allow you to put a window around a certain area of a graphics screen and you could say which way to scroll and how fast. If I remember correctly it could even eject this animated screen into the boot sequence of a game disk. I've searched Asimov but I can't seem to find anything. I don't even remember what they were called. Can you please help me? Thank you very much. Kind regards, 'nuff Edited April 19, 2020 by enuffsaid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enuffsaid Posted April 19, 2020 Author Share Posted April 19, 2020 *non-Commercial*. Jeez, can't even get the title right. I'm so sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameGeezer Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 20 hours ago, enuffsaid said: Hello all, I have been thinking about these apps I've used on my Apple II+ that I can't seem to find anywhere. One is a program what would scan tracks and sectors and dump the data to the hi-res screen. This way you could find images from a game, manipulate them, and write them back to the disk. The other one was a program that lets you make those nice scrolling effects of those pirate screens. It would allow you to put a window around a certain area of a graphics screen and you could say which way to scroll and how fast. If I remember correctly it could even eject this animated screen into the boot sequence of a game disk. I've searched Asimov but I can't seem to find anything. I don't even remember what they were called. Can you please help me? Thank you very much. Kind regards, 'nuff I take it that you have already gone through the entire Asimov ftp database? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enuffsaid Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 2 hours ago, GameGeezer said: I take it that you have already gone through the entire Asimov ftp database? Absolutely. Was up till 2 AM yesterday trying to find it. I've looked in images/disk_utils/cracking/ and loaded quite a bit of the images but found nothing. Perhaps I overlooked it as I have no recollection of what the tools were actually called. Also, technically it's not a cracking tool so I could be looking in the wrong place altogether. But I'll keep searching. Hoping that somebody with a better memory might remember these tools. It's been over 30 years. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 I wanted to suggest "The Pirate's Signature". It allows you to inject a compressed picture into the boot tracks I think. But it doesn't support editing and making windows or those little scrolling "animations". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enuffsaid Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) sorry for double post. Edited April 20, 2020 by enuffsaid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enuffsaid Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 29 minutes ago, Keatah said: I wanted to suggest "The Pirate's Signature". It allows you to inject a compressed picture into the boot tracks I think. But it doesn't support editing and making windows or those little scrolling "animations". Hi Keatah. Actually I did bump into that when I was looking at Asimov yesterday. But it's not the tool I had in mind. I'm not giving up, though. Thanks Keatah. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enuffsaid Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 On 4/20/2020 at 9:21 PM, Keatah said: I wanted to suggest "The Pirate's Signature". It allows you to inject a compressed picture into the boot tracks I think. But it doesn't support editing and making windows or those little scrolling "animations". Hello Keatah, I had a good luck at Asimov and believe I found the Scrolling animations application called "hi_res_scroller.dsk". It can be found at https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/productivity/graphics/misc/ I noticed it didn't have the built in feature to inject itself into the boot of disk. So I believe I may have used it together with the application you suggested, The Pirate's Signature, to get that done. Clearly 30+ years have taken a toll on my memory. :-) Thanks again for your assistance. Best regards, 'nuff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pksw Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 Try http://boutillon.free.fr/Underground/Outils/Beautiful_Boot/Beautiful_Boot.html Use Google to translate French to English, there are some good utilities there that might be similar. Another French site with lots of stuff is https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iamgroot Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Nibble 1987 - Window Works does what you ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDevil'sCompass Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 The first program you mention might be one of mine called "Picture Loader". It appeared in Computist - April 1988 - Issue #54 on pages 8-10. https://archive.org/details/computist-scan-54/page/n7/mode/2up The second program could be "Krackerjack's Autograph". It did a number of animations. I don't recall if it would inject the picture on a disk or not. If not, another program that was capable of injecting a title page on a disk was called "Intercept 1.2". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainBreakout Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 I know the utility you mean, about making a high Rez boot screen with various scolling effects. I used it a lot bitd. I looked for this a could of years ago, and the best I found was the pirates signature disk. I don't think it's the same thing (been a couple years). I'll check tho, it's possible someone sent me a disk image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trash_44fr Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Krackerjack's Autograph is available at the Internet Archive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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