PETSCII Doctors

Arkanix Labs has just released a little graphics collection called 'PETSCII Doctors', which features (funnily enough) PETSCII versions of all, at time of writing, 13 Doctors from the BBC television program 'Doctor Who', as well as a PETSCII time vortex effect complete with TARDIS accompanied with a SID rendition of the famous theme tune.

On this occasion, I've handled the code and music, while helping my Grandson, w0rm, learn the ways of C64 by producing PETSCII block renderings of the Doctors in my soon to be released C64 cross-dev screen editor 'ChillED'.  Thanks go to Moloch for continued advice and suggestions.

The whole bundle has been dedicated to T.M.R as a thanks for all his patience while I continue to grapple with 6502 coding.

The graphics collection can be downloaded from CSDb here or direct from this blog here.  Both download locations supply a .zip file containing the collection itself to run on a real C64 or emulator, as well as the 6502 source, binaries and work files.  It is also available on GitHub here.

EDIT: 100bit^NiS has added PETSCII Doctors to Pouët.  Find it here... 

EDIT 2:  It seems someone has taken the time to make a video of this little PETSCII graphics collection and put it up on YouTube.  The video should appear below but if not, it's on the page here...

RapidFire BBS Graphics

I've been coding a cross-dev C64 screen editor called 'ChillED', mainly for producing levels for a little C64 game I'm working on.  While coding and testing the editor, I posted a few of the example screens I pixelled on my Twitter page and ended up being contacted by pcollins of the group Excess asking for some PETSCII logos for the RapidFire BBS, which he is sysop of.

The list I was given included logos for various pages such as 'Disk Mag', 'Best of...' and 'Request' as well as some logos for group pages.  Here is what I came up with, which hopefully should be included on the BBS soon...

Although the PETSCII's were pixelled in my own 'work in progress' editor, they were needed in a format called 'SEQ', a sequence of screen characters.  Unfortunately, my editor cannot export this format yet, so they were imported into the excellent online screen editor, 'PETSCII Editor' and then saved off as SEQ's ready for the BBS.

The PETSCII's can be downloaded and viewed on a D64 image here, that also contains a viewer that runs on both a real C64 and in WinVICE.

If you have CGTerm installed on your computer or can access BBS's using your real C64, the images should hopefully be on the RapidFire BBS soon, which can be accessed by following:

rapidfire.hopto.org:64128