Bad Apple

[MrSterlingBS]

https://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bu ... 48&start=5

The "Bad Apple" is absoluetly awesome!!!
I compare with some other 6502 based computers, and the Vic one is excellent.

BR
SVen

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[javierglez]

Thank you.
I used VirtualDub (same as in Nuvie movies) to convert the video to a bmp sequence.
Then a python script for Gimp to resize and convert the bitmaps to black&white images of 14x16 chars (112x128 pixels) for the VIC, and then export to RLA compressed binary files. This is 224 chars, slightly less than 1 full charset. And allows for double buffering.
Then another python script to merge the image data with the music data in blocks of 32kB, which is the size of the Final Expansion blocks.
On the part of the VIC20, the program is basically the FE3 firmware reshuffled.
I intend to upload the VIC20 code and the python code to Github, but it may take some months until I find time to clean it up and document it a little bit.
The chiptune is another beast, I think it's good enough, but still I recommend to set a low volume.

[DarwinNE]

Great stuff! I love it!

[darkatx]

I was blown away with the final result! Well done!

[chysn]

That's really cool! I went back and watched the original, and this is a superb rendition.