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Revision as of 15:01, 17 October 2025
| Latest Version: | 1.01 | ||
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| Release Date: | 1998-05-21[1] | ||
| Company: | N/A | ||
| Development Status: | Abandoned | ||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||
| Developer(s): | Eskil Blomfeldt | ||
| Interface: | CLI | ||
| Language: | C | ||
| Open Source: | Closed | ||
| Source Availability: | No | ||
| License: | Shareware | ||
| Type: | Picture Converter | ||
| Relevant Engine: | AGI | ||
| Platform: | DOS | ||
| Localization: | English | ||
| Website: | eskilbl@online.no | ||
A.K.A.
Description
Eskil Blomfeldt's PCX to AGI PICTURE a freeware DOS utility that converts .PCX to the vector based AGI Picture format. PCX2PIC is intended to be a small utility that will make creating AGI-games a little easier. It will scan a bitmap PCX-picture and convert it to the vector based PICTURE-format. This could be extremely useful for intro-screens and non-interactive screens, but it could also work for interactive scenes, although in that case you would have to add priorities manually in an AGI PICTURE editor like PICEDIT later. Another way could be to draw the background as a bitmap, convert it, and then add objects etc. in your AGI PICTURE editor afterwards.
The advantage of PCX2PIC should be obvious. At least for people like me, who are not talented graphic-artists, it is a lot easier to create pictures using programs like MS Paint, "Deluxe Paint" or other bitmap-based software. When you are using PCX2PIC you could also create the images in 256 or more colors and use a graphics program to reduce the resolution for you.
Features
Version History
1.00 — 1998-05-20
First release
1.01 — 1998-05-21
Just a small update.
- Optimized the line-optimization routines a lot. The ones in the first version were extremely slow, and they've been improved by a million(to the point where you can actually use the accurate optimization on detailed images).
- Made the "SORT = NO"-option a little more efficient by only changing the color if the color actually changed. Earlier the program put a changecolor-code in front of every line and fill if sorting was turned off. Not anymore.
Development Status
Unmaintained
Usage
- See included documentation
Download
Download from here:
Known issues
Credits
References
- ↑ From the included PCX2PIC.TXT file
Also See
- AGI Picture Resources
- PicEdit
- AGI Picture Resource Tools
- AGI Picture Resource Editor
- AGI Picture Converters
- eskilbl@online.no
