Stop Press Canvas
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* [https://www.seasip.info/Unix/Joyce/joyce-z80-2.1.10.tar.gz joyce-z80-2.1.10.tar.gz] - the source code for the Z80 utilities for the Joyce PCW emulator - includes "joyce.spc". | * [https://www.seasip.info/Unix/Joyce/joyce-z80-2.1.10.tar.gz joyce-z80-2.1.10.tar.gz] - the source code for the Z80 utilities for the Joyce PCW emulator - includes "joyce.spc". | ||
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| + | * [https://www.seasip.info/Cpm/software/sp2bmsea.com SP2BMSEA.COM], a CP/M / DOS self-extracting archive containing SPC2BMP (compiled programs and source code), which converts this format to [[BMP]]. (Archive can be unpacked with [[PMA]] / [[LHA]] tools.) | ||
| + | * http://oliwright.pythonanywhere.com/ - converts other image files ''to'' SPC format | ||
[[Category:Amstrad]] | [[Category:Amstrad]] | ||
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Revision as of 14:18, 28 December 2020
Stop Press Canvas (extension .spc) is an uncompressed fixed-size raster image format, originally associated with the Stop Press graphics package for Amstrad PCW computers.
Format description
From John Elliott's SPC2BMP source code (August 1996):
- SPC format:
- SPC describes a black-and-white picture, 720 pixels across by 256 down. The aspect ratio is similar to the 640x200 CGA mode. The file is stored as 32 blocks of 720 bytes.
- Within each block, eight lines are stored, interleaved. The top line is in bytes 0,8,16,...; the second in bytes 1,9,17,... and so on.
- SPC files work from top to bottom and left to right.
(This is essentially the in-memory format of the PCW screen.)
Examples
- joyce-z80-2.1.10.tar.gz - the source code for the Z80 utilities for the Joyce PCW emulator - includes "joyce.spc".
Links
- SP2BMSEA.COM, a CP/M / DOS self-extracting archive containing SPC2BMP (compiled programs and source code), which converts this format to BMP. (Archive can be unpacked with PMA / LHA tools.)
- http://oliwright.pythonanywhere.com/ - converts other image files to SPC format
