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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 21:36:26 UTC Bernie

   The #C64 image converter no longer works for me:
   http://c64.superdefault.com/

   Perhaps it's because now browsers require https to upload files? Tested on both Firefox and Chrome...

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 21:42:00 UTC Bernie

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     Anyone knows an offline #C64 image converter? It's for... work.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 21:48:37 UTC Bernie

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     • Patrick Georgi

     @patrick So maybe their backend is really broken... I'll try contacting the authors.

   • Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 21:48:38 UTC Patrick Georgi

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     @codewiz The POST request returns something like "server error", so it's probably not for lack of trying on behalf of the browser...
   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 23:22:01 UTC Bernie

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     • Christian Horn

     @globalc I'm trying with ImageMagick:

     convert bernie-thumb-square.jpg -scale 160x160 -dither FloydSteinberg -remap c64_palette.png out.png

     but the result looks too "good" for the #c64:

   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 23:22:03 UTC Christian Horn

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     @codewiz When I was searching for one, I ended up instead looking at instructions on how to accomplish that with gimp: reducing resolution and the colours does it. Should also be doable with Imagemagick.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 23:25:17 UTC Bernie

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     • Christian Horn

     In part, it's because nobody was doing Floyd–Steinberg dithering back in the day (ImageMagick doesn't have a lot of options).

     In part, it's also because the #C64 was constrained to 4 colors per character cell in multicolor mode.

     @globalc @root #retrocomputing

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 23:27:34 UTC Bernie

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     • Christian Horn

     @globalc @root Without dithering at all, it also looks wrong (any #C64 artist would have used some dithering):

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 23:33:59 UTC Bernie

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     • Christian Horn

     @globalc @root I could make an animgif version using 60hz flickering to create intermediate color shades! #c64 #demoscene

   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 23:34:00 UTC Christian Horn

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     @codewiz @root
     First result looks to me already like from a c64 demo. Maybe shirt sticks out a bit - mastodon cuts that off at the preview of the pic.

   • Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Monday, 13-Sep-2021 06:09:58 UTC Patrick Georgi

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     • Christian Horn
     @codewiz @globalc The VIC-II has more restrictions than just the palette. https://mcdraw.xyz/ takes care of all that and you can manipulate dithering and color handling live until you like the result.
   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 13-Sep-2021 06:16:45 UTC Bernie

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     • Christian Horn
     • Patrick Georgi
     • mike

     This mcDRAW totally *RULEZ*!

     But why mcDRAW and not c64DRAW? 😜

     @patrick @globalc @root @mike #c64 #retrocomputing