Posted By
Csabo
on 2015-04-08
10:02:31
|  PetDraw
 David Murray has been developing a PETSCII drawing program for the C64, and to our luck he decided to port it to the Plus/4 and PET computers as well. It has a few minor issues, but otherwise it's functional, has a nice help screen and example images. It should be a handy tool for creating PETSCII pictures, be sure to check it out and send feedback!
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2015-04-08
10:02:31
| Re: PetDraw
This is pretty neat! I hope people will use it  Some feedback below. None of them are major issues, and I bet you have your own to-do list, but when I wrote my utilities, it always bothered me that people didn't send feedback - so here's mine.
- The F keys should be F1/F2/F3/HELP - this is what makes sense on the C16/Plus keyboard.
- For load, we should see what we type, and allow ESC to be pressed to exit from this function.
- In type mode, the current color is not used, seems to use black.
- Some keys would be really helpful: +/- (or something similar) to change the current color to be on luminance level brighter/darker would allow quicker gradients. Also two keys to cycle through the available characters might be helpful.
Big thanks for porting this to the Plus/4 though
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Posted By
Chronos
on 2015-04-08
10:52:19
 | Re: PetDraw
Thanks for the Plus4 version, I will try it!
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Posted By
Adric22
on 2015-04-08
11:35:28
| Re: PetDraw
Csabo, thanks for the feedback. I actually didn't realize the function keys on the Plus/4 were named differently from the C64/VIC20. Some of the other bugs you mention are actually documented in the TXT file that comes with the distro (although I don't know if that got included here because I think he converted it to a D64 file) The text mode is broken on the Plus/4 and PET versions of it.
The +/- idea for gradients is a great idea and would be pretty simple to implement.
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2015-04-08
12:30:36
| Re: PetDraw
Thanks for pointing this out, I added the documentation to the page.
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Posted By
Luca
on 2015-04-08
12:43:12
 | Re: PetDraw
If a fixed version would jump out in the near future, I would be proud to see as example picture my PETSCII previously done on C64 for that famous compo, and now converted in the PetDraw format aswell
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Posted By
Adric22
on 2015-04-08
16:29:22
| Re: PetDraw
Luca, that's a nice piece of art. I've seen it before (probably from the compo) but I have never quite been able to figure out what I'm looking at. I see there are two naked women and a fire of osme kind. But I can't tell what the women are doing, nor what the structure is behind them. Can you enlighten me?
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2015-04-08
19:43:11
| Re: PetDraw
Well, maybe the key word there is "art". You just enjoy it and have your own interpretation
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Posted By
Luca
on 2015-04-08
21:44:42
| Re: PetDraw
A temple seen from below with two greek sirens at the entrance
EDIT: have played with this great tool, and I like it so much! Hope it will be improved soon (passing thru not so many improved versions ;) )
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