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   Tristan Miller to All   
   Converting PETSCII to (animated) GIF or    
   01 Jun 21 09:18:26   
   
   From: psychonaut@nothingisreal.com   
      
   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.  I'd like to convert these   
   animations to a format that can be easily viewed from a modern web browser.   
      
   So does anyone know of a free, preferably command-line tool that will   
   convert my PETSCII animations to an animated GIF or APNG?  I know I   
   could write a simple CBM BASIC program to view the files, run it in   
   VICE, capture the emulator output to a video file, extract the   
   individual frames with ImageMagick, and then reassemble them into an   
   animated GIF using gifsicle.  But that's a rather kludgy process that   
   requires a lot of manual intervention for each and every file I want to   
   convert; I was hoping there might be some dedicated tool that I could   
   just run directly on a given SEQ file and automagically get a GIF or   
   APNG as output.   
      
   Regards,   
   Tristan   
      
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