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    Have laser output
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    And some video, including some fast animation scenes. You tube really killed the level black is crushed sorry.

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    A challenge..

    I've been called many, many, things behind my back. However over the years I've tried, sometimes successfully, to get people to make tools that are useful. Often I was quite pushy about it, but I often had a vision for something needed. Sometimes they are just hamsters, little things that run in their cages and crank out something. This is one such Hamster, however you'll need a Command Line/ DOS window to run it. Its looking for ILDA I or ILDA II format , but how about trying ILDAREAD and using the ASCII output to recode a ILDA frame to Bytemares.

    How you get the data from the PC to the C64 is P.F.M. to me, and thankfully not my problem ;-), Serial Port? Sneakernet?

    Hint, take the top eight bits of the word format or something similar to crush it down to the Bytemares bytes,


    Mike Svob coded this for me long ago:

    "This utility strips a one frame ilda file to a text based n,x,y,z format, where N is the number of points in the frame and x,y,z are signed integer point data, so the output is N,X,Y,Z,X,Y,Z..... The actual data will appear as a vertical list with one coordinate data per line. Color data and blanking data are NOT provided. Cross directory support is not provided, both the input and output files MUST be in the same directory. if ildaread.exe spots a error in a ILDA file header, it will tell you what the error is."

    http://www.laserfx.com/Backstage.Las...s/ReadILDA.zip

    Whole page of downloads, including ILDAWRITE:

    http://www.laserfx.com/Backstage.Las...loadIndex.html

    Long before PL, There was LaserFX.com , we mainly used IRC chat, and I'm NOT related to L.M.R, having the same last name is merely a accident.


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    Abstract generator, some cool patterns if I would have stayed on some, but kept stepping and adjusting stuff not knowing what i was doing just to see it. About 33 sec in I started to get things working.

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    Really awsome.

    Hmm request:
    Would you be able to make a lasershow and have the commodore itself play the audio.
    That would be so awsome

    If yes do it with this music *suggestion*
    Jeroen Tel / Maniacs of Noise - Turbo Outrun (1989 US Gold/Probe)

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    [QUOTE=masterpj;185160]Really awsome.

    Hmm request:
    Would you be able to make a lasershow and have the commodore itself play the audio.
    That would be so awsome

    end quote.

    Um, Processor power to do this is going to come from where? He is already using the spare timer/counter channel for the point timing.

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    [QUOTE=mixedgas;185172]
    Quote Originally Posted by masterpj View Post
    Really awsome.

    Hmm request:
    Would you be able to make a lasershow and have the commodore itself play the audio.
    That would be so awsome

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    Um, Processor power to do this is going to come from where? He is already using the spare timer/counter channel for the point timing.

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    hmmmm ow....
    well..... you could use a second C64

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    that is killer lsd 1000 thems were the days

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    Nice work John! Really cool to see that old unit running again... Way to go!

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    I wanted to bump this.
    John send me this a long time ago.
    I can finally draw with it using my just arrived koala pad. I learned how to make corner points already and many things the manual didn't document.. Pressing F for instance let's me make long jumps.
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    I took it further by figuring out how the color works *the manual once again didn't document it came from the userport and with some LED's wiring as test I found the color signals *with help from the userport pinout.

    I wired up the 3 color lines to my laser and BINGO!
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    I can only use the realtime drawing tool... I'm looking for some floppies *please someone also email the ILDA list about this.
    The floppies contain the program: ByteDraw and Showtime. ByteDraw is the better frame drawing software, specifically ment for it.

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