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From: brent@hpislx.HP.COM (Brent Geske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Apple II Hi-res picture conversion?
Message-ID: <3270001@hpislx.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 90 06:37:46 GMT
Organization: Measurement Systems Operation - Loveland, CO
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Can anyone give me information on how to convert Apple II
Hires screen images to some type of format displayable on an IBM PC?

The images were created by the "Polarsoft penguin graphics system"
and are saved in a packed format by the Polarsoft program.  I believe
I can get the images unpacked and into the Hires screen memory area,
but I have no tool to convert Apple's strange Hires pixel organization
into something a little more understandable.

Once I get the images into the Hires screen, I can do:

	BSAVE (filename),A$2000,L$2000

to produce standard "BSAVEd Hires" files, but I don't relish
the thought of writing code to walk through these files
and extract the pixels linearly in the order that they appear
on the Apple II screen.

Is there some utility out there that can read Apple Hires files
and convert them to some more "standard" format?