Just a quickie; does anyone know of any software available for the Mac (OSX) which will read and/or translate Acorn format images files, i.e. sprites and draw files?
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Martin Angove
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Isn't OSX BSD based? Surely then you would have Gimp available to you. If nothing else, can't you transfer to say BMP and then convert that to something else?
Just done a quick whizz round Google and Gimp is available as a download for OSX but I couldn't (quickly) find any details of which file formats it would handle. It's also available for Windows in case anybody is interested in trying it.
Chris Walker
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Trying something from the *x community sounds like a good idea, but although OSX originates in some flavour or other of bsd/unix/whatever it still likes to do things its own way... however I'll have a look at Gimp.
The reason for asking was precisely to avoid the intermediate step. I have software on RO which could convert sprites to GIFs or PNGs but as I'm thinking about my catalogue of clip art which has been built up over years and years of PD library discs and so on, it seems a little too much to convert the whole lot on the offchance that one or two might be useful to my wife designing something on the Mac. I don't think I have anything on RO which would convert Draw to a Mac vector format (whatever that is) though I could probably manage Draw to a bitmap format.
I did find a $30 shareware program on Tucows which reads sprite files natively, but it doesn't do draw :-(
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Martin Angove
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DrawView, by Jonathan Marten (remember him?[1]). It can be found at http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/acorn/drawview/
1. DrawPlus and Vector, amongst other things.
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England
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Worth a try. I've not actually tried compiling something on the Mac, though I have fiddled with X11 and I think I have already installed the appropriate libraries which were needed for OpenOffice.org...
Thanks for that idea :-)
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Martin Angove
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