ASCII-ART Pro 4.2

Coded in 2009 - 2013

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atari.st@gmx.de

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Hardware requirements

* Atari ST or TOS compatible
* ST-HIGH resolution mode
* 2 MB RAM

How to use

This program must be run in ST-High mode.
You need a picture in doodle format (.doo)
to be converted to the ascii-art.

For a quick test, start the corex.prg and
choose the doodle picture. Deactivate all
options except the nice-mode and press
"Start".

The options

* Nice Mode: on/off
This option limits the characters
to improve the picture quality.

* Grey Mod: on/off
This option enables additional font
styles:

"bold",
"light"
"light bold"

* Scan +4: on/off
When turned on, the program compares
four bit blocks in addition to the
center block, each 1 pixel away in
one direction.

* Scan +20 on/off
When turned on, the program compares
twelve bit blocks in addition to the
center block.

* Correct on/off
The differences between the best matching
character and the pixels in the lineart
will be given to the neighbour pixels
to be calculated again.

* Choose Picture
This option opens the file select box.

* Weakness off/1/2/3/4/5
Here you can set how much of the difference
will be given to the neighbour characters.
This is needed for the correct option.

* Distance off/1/2/3/4
The differences described before will be
given to neighbour parts in a range of
one to four pixels.

* Processes 1/2
The picture can be calculated in one step
or in two steps. Using two steps can speed
up the calculation if the corex.prg and the
corey.prg are running at the same time.

* Scan-Size 1/4/8
This will be the size of the final picture.
To increase the value is similar to the usage
of a higher dpi setting with traditional scan-
ners.

* Start
This begins the converting process.

* Quit
Go back to the GEM-desktop


The ASCII-art viewer

If the scanning process of the corex.prg has
been finished and if the processes setting was
set to 1, the viewer will be started now.

If the scanning process of the corex.prg has
been finished and if the processes setting was
set to 2, you must now start the corey.prg.
In this case, the corey.prg can be started as
soon as the corex.prg begun its work (if you
are using a multitasking environment).

The ascii-viewer is useable with the following
screen modes:

ST-LOW
ST-MEDIUM
ST-HIGH
TT-MEDIUM
TT-HIGH

and also a special screen mode for use with
1280 x 800 pixels at 256 colors or Falcon
True Color.

The ASCII-art viewer keys

The viewer can be controlled with the keyboad:

Press the 6 key to move the view to the right
Press the 4 key to move the view to the left
Press the 8 key to move the view upward
Press the 2 key to move the view downward
Press the 5 key to center the image
Press the q key to quit the viewer
Press the + or - key to change character spaces

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS FOR ST-LOW-RES:
Press the + key to get the original size
Press the - key to get a small overview

Special Features

The VIEWER.PRG is saving two files to the
harddisk: the classic ascii text picture
and a doodle picture.

contact address: atari.st@gmx.de

CLEAN.PRG = Universal version, for use to clean up the application
directory from temp files

COREX.PRG = ST/STE/TT/Falcon030 version (main program),
use ST HIGH res mode.

COREY.PRG = ST/STE/TT/Falcon030 version (core program),
use ST HIGH res mode.

VIEWER.PRG = ST/STE/TT/Falcon030 version (view program),
use ST-LOW/ST-MED/ST_HIGH/TT-MED/TT-HIGH

This software is under the CC license BY-NC-SA now: 2016-01-01.