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 Message 3498 
 Tristan Miller to Rob Swindell 
 Re: Converting PETSCII to (animated) GIF 
 06 Jun 21 20:20:38 
 
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Greetings.

On 04/06/2021 11.35, Rob Swindell wrote:
>    Re: Converting PETSCII to (animated) GIF or (A)PNG
>    By: Tristan Miller to All on Tue Jun 01 2021 09:18 am
>
>   > Greetings.
>   >
>   > In the early 1990s I used to run a BBS that hosted many SEQ files
>   > containing PETSCII graphics, including C64 colour and cursor control
>   > codes.  When the files were transmitted to users at 1200 baud, they
>   > produced clever and beautiful animations.
>
> Do you happen to have an archive of those SEQ files available for download
> somwhere? They'd be useful to demo/test the PETSCII support in my BBS
software
> (www.synchro.net).


No, just what I have on floppies somewhere.  I haven't yet gotten around
to copying them to a modern PC, in part because I don't have one of
those specially modified drives that would let me read the flip-side of
a double-sided disk with Kryoflux.

Regards,
Tristan

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