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mysteriousfoxy87.bsky.social • 30 days ago

Myo! #bugscraper @yolwoocle.com
More details on how I did that in the comments :]

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mysteriousfoxy87.bsky.social•30 days ago

This is a small project that I've worked on this evening just to experiment with my serial module.

I've written a simple Basic program that reads from that serial device, and pokes each byte to the screen region.

mysteriousfoxy87.bsky.social•30 days ago

The issue is that the Amstrad CPC doesn't have a "linear" bitmap screen. What I mean by this is that the lines are split in a bizarre way to accomodate with the CRTC chip of the machine.

Things get weirder with other video modes, mode 2 is actually not too bad.

mysteriousfoxy87.bsky.social•30 days ago

On my main computer, I've written a small Python program to send each 8-bit pixel pack while compensating with the bitmap memory layout. Nothing impressive here, just that the `time.sleep` calls help compensating the remote machine's slowness.

mysteriousfoxy87.bsky.social•30 days ago

I originally sent the image in an ASCII art form, but thought that it would be interesting to exploit the bitmap-only capabilities of the machine.

Here are some pictures that show my early attempts :]

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