SP4CEBAR 2023-08-26 10:41 (Edited)
It plays monochrome videos by copying frames from ROM to the character registers using the copy command. Each frame has a size of 20x128 = 2560 bytes, which means about 13 frames will fit inside our 32768 bytes of ROM.
The program itself is quite small though.
All even rows have a palette of 0, and all uneven a palette of 1 so two cells can share a character.
Extracting data from a video file is hard, I think the best way to do it is to figure out how to use FFMPEG. Another way to do it is to convert a video file to bitmap images and make a bitmap reader that can convert it to this file type.
SP4CEBAR 2023-08-26 10:47
Here's a version that's adapted to be loaded from a string. The copy command can't be used for this, so it'll be slower (it's at 100% CPU while the other version isn't)
McPepic 2023-08-26 15:28
So I was messing around a bit and I think that instead of setting the palettes to:
bbbw, bwbb
they should be set to
bwbw, bbww
SP4CEBAR 2023-08-26 16:15
oh, you're right, it's a binary pattern
McPepic 2023-08-26 16:28
There was one more thing that I thought of. Shouldn't the characters start at index one? Otherwise, character 0 will get drawn under every cell.
SP4CEBAR 2023-08-26 16:50
I can't seem to find where it starts at index 1, did you mean the MID$ functions in the second program where index 1 is the first index of the data string?
McPepic 2023-08-26 18:10
A_CHARACTERS = $8010
SP4CEBAR 2023-08-28 10:44
Oh, I misread your comment, yeah, that would indeed be smart, alternatively I could set:
BG VIEW OFF 1
