Announcing HMONSTER - A Monster of an Hi-Res Graphics Converter for Windows BMP files - Now Available for Free Download - Users Wanted!

[Bill Buckels]

Especially for serious Apple II Hi-Res Graphics fans, AppleWin power users,
and Apple II Graphics Programmers especially Aztec C65 programmers... but if
not, no experience necessary...

HMONSTER - A Monster of an Hi-Res Graphics Converter - Now Available for
Free Download

HMONSTER is a command line Round-Trip Conversion Utility for HGR bitmapped
graphics and Windows BMP Files. It also supports several options for
tweaking Apple II output.

Summary:

1. Converts Monochrome, 16 Color, 256 Color, and 24-Bit Windows BMP files to
Apple II Hi-Res Graphics Files in BSaved and Rasterized Formats.

2. Converts Apple II Hi-Res Graphics Files in BSaved and Rasterized Formats
to Monochrome or 16 Color Windows BMP files.

HMONSTER comes with demos, samples, Apple II disk images, documentation and
source code.

Read More about it here:

http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/HMonster.pdf

Download it here:

http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/hmonster.zip

Recently Posted and Related Reading and Downloads follow:

1. A brief tutorial about capturing, editing, and otherwise recycling Apple
II HGR (Hi-Res) screens using AppleWin and Windows Paint:

http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/AppleWinScreenGrabs_2013.pdf

2. Bin2Rag - a ProDOS HGR Graphics Conversion Utility that runs on the Apple
II:

http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/Bin2Rag.pdf

http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/BIN2RAG.zip

Bin2Rag comes with demos, samples, Apple II disk images, documentation and
source code, and hgrServer (a Win32 PowerToy to Manage Apple II HGR Files
during an AppleWin debugger HGR BSave session). hgrServer is covered in the
Bin2Rag documentation (pdf link above).

All the downloads listed above may be freely used and distributed subject to
the conditions in the licence agreements they come with... in a nutshell...
use and copy freely provided you agree that I have no warranty, obligations,
or liability of any kind related to said use and distribution.

3. If you do not agree, it is customary to have a "book curse" levied
against you. You can read more about book curses in my ClipShop help file.
ClipShop is also a good companion utility for the downloads above, as well
as for converting other legacy graphics including Commodore 64, MS-DOS and
Apple II HGR files (but HMONSTER is more robust for Apple II screen files).
ClipShop supports ClipBoard pastes as well as color remapping and file
conversion, so it can paste directly into a Windows Paint editing session or
Paste into ClipShop from Windows Paint. ClipShop is also very is handy for
viewing HMONSTER's Apple II output in Windows before transferring to Apple
II disks.

You can download ClipShop and read about Book Curses and many other matters
in the extensive help file it comes with from the following link:

http://www.clipshop.ca/

Whatever you do, Have Fun! be agreeable and avoid curses, and All the Best,

Bill

PS - Now back to work! (Thank goodness I really mean "play")