03-12-2021, 11:13 AM
This disk is full of most of the Turbo Pascal source code of the Graphics Conversion programs I wrote back in the late 80's that I could recover from my aging Microbee disks. They include conversions to or from or simply viewing various Microbee graphics files generated by BeeArtistic, Electric Paintbrush, Printmaster, Story Maker, Basic GRSAVE and others. The compiled files are on MBUG Disk #131 and #133 disks or you can just compile them yourself.
A number of the small routines had been borrowed from other sources but the actual conversion part was all my work and I'm sure there are more elegant, faster and simpler ways of doing the conversions, but they work. These were all programmed on my Premium 128k Microbee that I had at the time, so most conversions are for Premium files.
These are all on a bootable SS80 Microbee disk image with Turbo Pascal included as well. You can use BISHOW or TRANSFER to view the files to the screen. These are the conversion files on the disk -
16k2ba.pas - Files loaded by SHOW16K to Premium BeeArtistic
80x16.pas - Set screen to 80 x 16
ba216k.pas - Premium BeeArtistic file to SHOW16k
ba2pc.pas - Premium BeeArtistic to IBM PC-Paint
ep2ba.pas - Electric Paintbrush to BeeArtistic
ep2sm.pas - Electric Paintbrush to STORY MAKER
fon2epf.pas - WORDBEE FONTS to Electric Paintbrush Fonts
girl.img - Hires image of a Girls face
girl.pas - Loads girl.img
gr2ba.pas - PREMIUM Basic GRSAVE file to Premium BeeArtistic
pm2ep.pas - PRINTMASTER to Electric Paintbrush
pm2sm.pas - PRINTMASTER to STORY MAKER
set40.pas - Set Screen to 40 x 16
show16k.pas - 16k picture file format loader
showart.pas - Show Fleet St Editor *.ART files & save as Premium BeeArtistic
showba.pas - Premium BeeArtistic file loader
showgr.pas - Premium & Standard Basic GRSAVE file loader
showpc.pas - Show PC-Paint Files & save as Premium BeeArtistic
showsm.pas - STORY MAKER file loader
sm2ep.pas - STORY MAKER to Electric Paintbrush
viewpm.pas - PrintMaster graphics libraries to EP, Simply Write & Graphics Wordbee
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Applications folder we placed
turbo_pascal_graphic_conversions_source_code_ss80.dsk
A number of the small routines had been borrowed from other sources but the actual conversion part was all my work and I'm sure there are more elegant, faster and simpler ways of doing the conversions, but they work. These were all programmed on my Premium 128k Microbee that I had at the time, so most conversions are for Premium files.
These are all on a bootable SS80 Microbee disk image with Turbo Pascal included as well. You can use BISHOW or TRANSFER to view the files to the screen. These are the conversion files on the disk -
16k2ba.pas - Files loaded by SHOW16K to Premium BeeArtistic
80x16.pas - Set screen to 80 x 16
ba216k.pas - Premium BeeArtistic file to SHOW16k
ba2pc.pas - Premium BeeArtistic to IBM PC-Paint
ep2ba.pas - Electric Paintbrush to BeeArtistic
ep2sm.pas - Electric Paintbrush to STORY MAKER
fon2epf.pas - WORDBEE FONTS to Electric Paintbrush Fonts
girl.img - Hires image of a Girls face
girl.pas - Loads girl.img
gr2ba.pas - PREMIUM Basic GRSAVE file to Premium BeeArtistic
pm2ep.pas - PRINTMASTER to Electric Paintbrush
pm2sm.pas - PRINTMASTER to STORY MAKER
set40.pas - Set Screen to 40 x 16
show16k.pas - 16k picture file format loader
showart.pas - Show Fleet St Editor *.ART files & save as Premium BeeArtistic
showba.pas - Premium BeeArtistic file loader
showgr.pas - Premium & Standard Basic GRSAVE file loader
showpc.pas - Show PC-Paint Files & save as Premium BeeArtistic
showsm.pas - STORY MAKER file loader
sm2ep.pas - STORY MAKER to Electric Paintbrush
viewpm.pas - PrintMaster graphics libraries to EP, Simply Write & Graphics Wordbee
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Applications folder we placed
turbo_pascal_graphic_conversions_source_code_ss80.dsk
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