Short:        CLI converter for Amstrad CPC images
Author:       Massimiliano Scarano mscarano@libero.it
Uploader:     Massimiliano Scarano mscarano libero it
Type:         gfx/conv
Version:      1.0
Replaces:     gfx/conv/cpc2ilbm_V1_0.lha
Architecture: m68k-amigaos >= 3.0.0

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 Description
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cpc2ilbm is a command-line ANSI C program to convert Amstrad CPC "Advanced OCP Art Studio" image files to IFF-ILBM format.

Advanced OCP Art Studio is a very popular Amstrad CPC graphics image format.
Each image consists of 2 files: a screen ".scr" file and a palette ".pal" file.
For example the screen file "raytrace.scr" will have a palette file named "raytrace.pal".

Output file format is uncompressed IFF-ILBM.

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 Requirements
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AmigaOS 3.0 or higher running on Motorola 680x0 based computers.
Alternatively an Amiga emulation package is required (Cloanto Amiga Forever recommended).

No particular installation is needed, you should be able to run the utility anywhere in your system.

Binary executable is provided in the "Bin" directory.

I have included few Amstrad CPC images in the "Images" directory.

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 Features
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* Supported Amstrad CPC screen modes:
    - MODE0 low resolution:    160 x 200 - 16 colours (rendered as 320x200x16)
    - MODE1 medium resolution: 320 x 200 -  4 colours (rendered as 320x200x4)
    - MODE2 high resolution:   640 x 200 -  2 colours (rendered as 640x200x2)

* Supported Amstrad CPC file formats:
    1) uncompressed linear screen (.scr) file, 16128 bytes and its palette (.pal) file, 367 bytes;
    2) uncompressed non linear screen (.scr) file, 16512 bytes and its palette (.pal) file, 367 bytes;
    3) standard format uncompressed non linear screen (.scr) file, 16384 bytes and its palette (.pal) file, 239 bytes;

    1) tested with files saved with ConvImgCpc Version 0.14
    2) tested with files saved with ConvImgCpc Version 0.79f
    3) not tested, at the moment I have no files to test it with, I am sorry I have never had Amstrad CPC

    ConvImgCPC V0.14 for Window$ is a GIF-JPG-BMP-WMF-SCR to Amstrad CPC graphics converter.
    ConvImgCPC V0.79f for Window$ is a GIF-JPG-BMP-WMF to Amstrad CPC graphics converter.
    These sometimes seem to create a buggy MODE0 16 colours .pal file.

* AmigaGuide documentation including a lot of related and interesting web links

* Source code supplied

* Few Amstrad CPC images supplied

* HTML Amstrad CPC documentation supplied ("CPC-Docs" directory)

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 Releases history
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* Version 1.0 released 30-Sep-2007, first public release.

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 Author
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Massimiliano Scarano
E-mail: mscarano@libero.it
Web site: http://it.dada.net/freeweb/massimilianoscarano/