BBC2BMP v0.5 - 23/November/1997

Here is a little something I whipped up this last week.
It is a program that converts BBC MODE 0,1,2,4,5 Screens to bitmap format.

The program runs under WIN32, NOT under DOS, so you need to use it in a Win95/NT DOS box. I'll try to compile a linux version in the next week or two.

[Usage]
usage is quite simple

>bbc2bmp MODE FILE

where MODE= 0,1,2,4,5 and file is the filename of the BBC screen image

eg.	bbc2bmp 0 pic1 

[The program]
It is still an early version, but conversions seem to be performed accurately. If anyone has any ideas about enhancements I'd be glad to hear from you, just mail me. I had though about the palette mappings, but they can be easily changed in the finished bitmap.

At the moment I am not releasing the source code as it still needs a little work, but as soon as I'm happy with it, then I'll release it too. I'd also be interested to hear about any bugs that anyone finds.

[Thanks]
Thanks go to David Robinson who wrote this in BASIC for the BBC / PC BBC BASIC. I found that it was too slow and so rewrote it in C++ for the PC.
Also thanks to Wouter Scholten for helping me get to grips with C++. This was my first in C++ :-)

Hope someone finds bbc2bmp useful.

Mark Usher
marku@magnet.at
