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I would be interested how fast it can load screen dumps 8kb..to play animations...

Very nice!

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Geos auf dem plus/4, gut

Absolutely amazing upgrade! Hopefully the F18A will be available again someday. I'm resurrecting my ole 994a, and this looks like the first upgrade to do as a game developer. Thanks for the share!!

Based on the rolling static, I presume you recorded this from real hardware? If so, you're already a legend.

the black and white photos look phenomenal 😭

Just a miracle!

How warm did it get?

It is fun as concept, but that is where it ends. The video circuitry needed alone is one big headache. My Mac SE can do 1152x870 monochrome on a 20" Apple Monochrome screen, out of the box, and has proper floppies and a HD to store the content. If I hook up a MacMini to my HDMI screen, I have 1920x1080 in 30 bit colour, and it can show FullHD BluRay's with 5.1 sound. Why on earth do I want to hookup the worst Commodore computer to a modern 1080p screen and wait an hour for files to load and show in a crappy quality for the screen...... And why would the 1084 screen not show this? That combo would make any sense.

Disappointed CBM went with such a poorly documented chip. You'd think they could have just made a double-res 2MHz Vic chip. But noooooo.

I re-read the IPaint manual cover-to-cover a few days ago for the first time since about 1997 when I first bought it. Wow... Talk about overwhelmed with options. It *did* help me to understand the "ON" / "OFF" concept when using the mouse buttons. That was very helpful. I am now more capable of clicking on all of its features and at least having some understanding of what they're about. I would enjoy making a series of IPaint video tutorials in the future once I fully understand how to use it. So far, though, there are some very weird challenges with regard to using the colors which are stopping me cold.

I have been experimenting with IPaint and IPaintSlideShow1.1 in VICE and everything runs quite well there - except for whatever reason, VICE is not displaying the content of IPaint's drawing window with the even lines in sync with the odd ones. In other words, when trying to use the pencil to draw a squiggly line... it's as if you're drawing with 2 pencils about 1 character cell apart in the vertical. It's a cool effect but it's not supposed to be that way. If you use the triangle and circle shapes, you don't see the odd/even scan lines together as they're supposed to be. When you paint a large dot with the paintbrush the problem becomes obvious. You don't get one nice dot... you get two dots vertically out of sync. I think if this problem could be made to go away, IPaint in VICE would be great because "warp mode" really helps it to paint those complex shapes and fills a lot faster than that the real hardware alone will do it. When I view images I imported from GIFs in 1998 with the Slideshow Viewer... That absence of sync between the odd/even lines makes every image look messy... especially the color ones because the character cells are totally out of alignment.

The world could really use at least 1 tutorial showing this software in use with both monochrome and color because I'm finding it impossible to devise a working philosophy for creating new images with diagonal lines and shapes where the colors aren't so obviously "jaggy".

I bought a ZoomFloppy in 2013 but never was successful with using it until 2 months ago. I used to be the Public Domain Soiftware Librarian for a now defunct Commodore Users Group. There was a lot of CP/M software in that library. I found both dBase II and WordStar in that set a couple of months ago. I had to clean the WordStar disk a few times before it would successfully read without errors into a .d64 file... but eventually succeeded. I haven't used either app yet but both of them do still load. Step-by-step...

Hi. I was not previously aware of this OS for the C128. Will need to get it and run it too. Thanks!

Using geoGIF to convert GIFs to geoPaint format and then importing those into IPaint also produces some very nice results if you don't mind the absence of color in your pics. Everything has a very sandy / salty look to it but the resolution is very good considering the technology we're working with here. So far as I know, IPaint is the only C128 software which enables viewing of a geoPaint file - full-width - onscreen.

I have owned copies of both IPaint and IPort since 1997. I've never been able to do much with IPaint itself but using IPort to import GIFs into IPaint format was always a lot of fun (for me, anyway). I had to resize each original GIF to a 640x400 pixel ratio beforehand in order for the images to look correct on the C128. Exporting IPaint images back to GIF for posting online via my website, of course, required resizing them back to a 640x480 ratio. The images always appear more vibrant and "alive" on a true C128 80-column CRT display. Sad to see that becoming less and less possible over time. The flicking in this video is very annoying. In real life, it can be annoying too but not this badly. Wearing my polarized Ray-Ban sunglasses while working with and/or viewing IPaint pictures eliminates most of the flickering - almost entirely - and enough so that it doesn't bother me.

1 player? Lame. 4 human players or nothing. 1 player M.U.L.E. is always the same, the computers mine Smithore every time and are easily exploited with energy. The only real challenge is feeding them and trying to get the highest colony score: "Luxury estates".

They made more games for the commodore 16 but only produced about 1.5million c16+4 machines they made approximately 3m 128s

This doesn't sound like audio from an 800. It sounds like a C64 SID chip.

I used to use VizaWrite on the C64 - never owned a C128. The maturity of VizaStar128 is breathtaking, just astonishing for a mid 80s 8-bit computer.

Lol what the hell kind of game is this? Your fav is civ, mine is civ2 at least on the top 5 games list.

Loved playing this game with my buddies back in the day.

Cool Demo

This... is... fantastic! Thank you so much! I've been looking for Oscar64 code that uses the VDC. This will help me learn a lot!

IIRC, it would have Y2K issues these days. Maybe they'll come out with a patch. 😊

I Dreamt In 8 bits, Keep the awesome C128 content coming!

Why would you need an interrupt, when you could just check if the VDC is ready for another byte?

How they made this work with 128bytes of ram is a miricle 4kb rom no more than ⅛ of kb of code was running at any given time

No raster iq on the zilog which was an alternative designed by the same person who helped design intels 8008

I was looking forwards to the opening theme of bladerunner......on a sid chip

Mos 6507 128bytes of ram.....TIA chip for gpu this was the beans in 1977 nowa days a ps5 is a 8core amd zen2 ..16gbram, 16gbvram amd oberon gpu, computers have gone a very long way

960x540 is pretty crisp for bit mapping , working the maths for the bit data must have took days

awesome!

Hi Ya & best wishes. Thanks for work. Be Happy. Sevastopol/Crimea.

How long would this image have taken back in 300-1200 baud days?

Kool

Your rewrite looks nice, and seems very responsive.

Oooh, nice! I'm gonna try this! Just got an RGBtoHDMI and all the nonstandard screenmodes flashes like crazy with the software on it right now. Very cool - thx Vic Tokra! EDIT: It's just the new firmware you gotta use, no extra downloads. Works beautifully

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That scrolling PETSCII art is unbelievable!

Lovely windowing system. Reminds me a little of Turbovision :)

Muy loco. Saludos desde Argentina.

Amazing! Downloaded, gonna blast it on my c64 mini!

Wow, this is so perfect!

The end is somewhat abrupt... but otherwise just great, especially the Dervish D part!

❤

HAM on C128?

R.I.P.