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Hey everyone!

I'm glad to announce the 20th edition of the pseudoannual Text Mode Demo Compo!

Recent years haven't been as successful, so this might well be the last one. 20 is a good number.

An invite will be released at some point, but don't wait for it to start on your prod!

Go ahead! Make something cool!

The stie is still there if you need a reminder on the rules, dates, or want links to tools & libs & other useful stuff!

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Maybe I should actually try to code something. Haven't done any hobby projects for almost a year now..

Yes. Yes, you should.
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You should indeed! Everyone should!
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JSYK, I was updating my converter yet again... here's the difference based on last year's version.
Before:

After tweaking numbers:


In other news, if your converter is looking meh, with some sorts of weird banding in places, just make sure you're doing your color maths in linear color space, not monitor space. It's gonna look better.

imgur fail. Here, again:
Before:

and after:

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@BarZoule: looks great!

\o/ and make sure your linear space is float or >=10 bit. Don't clip before the video ram forces you to! :)

BarZoule, could you point me at the source image that you used for the above conversion? I'm interested to try it with my converter and see my results compare with yours.

The invite-tro should be up first , to make people interested and motivated .. :)

@kriz: go make a demo about it! :)

Has there been any new open sourced rgb->text converters, or are libcaca and textfx still the "state of the art" ?

My converter is open source. It's designed for CGA but can be coaxed into doing 80x50 images like the above (and other sizes) with some prodding. Fonts other than the CGA 8x8 font may be added in the future. It has lots of options for both matching and rendering (some of which don't do anything yet). Binary (Windows only, sorry) at http://www.reenigne.org/misc/cgaart.zip and source at https://github.com/reenigne/reenigne/tree/master/8088/cga/cgaart. Feed it a 24-bit .png file (e.g. 640x400) on the command line. On the first startup it takes a minute or two before the UI shows up, but after that it's faster. For text mode, select "high-resolution text" in Video Card->Registers->Mode, set Scanlines per row to 8 and set Monitor->Connector to RGBI. For 80x50, edit default.config in a text editor and remove the "/2" on the activeSize.y line, then restart and change Aspect Ratio to 1.666.

If you make something nice with this, I'd be very interested to see it!

@reengine - the binary just crashes for me (both rose.png and default.config). Have any screenshots? I also peeked at the sources and I'm not quite sure we're talking about standard text modes anymore =)

@sol_hsa, did it give an error message when it crashed or did it just sit there pegging a CPU? If the former, what was the message? If the latter, how long did you leave it running?

The program is designed for all standard (and many non-standard) CGA modes, but it does work for standard text modes as well.

Here's a screenshot: http://www.reenigne.org/misc/cgaart_screenshot.png Also see my winning entry in the ASCII/ANSI compo at Nova earlier this year which was made with this program: https://demozoo.org/graphics/173389/ .