XnView
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:32 am
The excellent XnView program claims it can read Oric Hires screens. See:
http://www.xnview.com/en/formats.html#o
I tried to load a simple Oric Hires file, renamed .HIR, with or without tape header, and it failed with an "unknown format" error message.
Did someone ever manage to use this?
What exact format should it be?
EDIT: ok, there are 2 possibilities:
- loading a .HIR format (no header I suppose), didn't manage to use it but it seems I had 4 useless bytes at the end, which is probably the problem
- loading a .TAP format, which runs fine with coloured pictures, but not with monochrom pictures (they seem to be shifted by 4 bytes, ie 24 pixels).
EDIT2: now that's very strange, despite the fact that the memory addresses are correct in the TAP header, I just noticed ALL my monochrom files have 4 useless bytes at the end. That's what seems to be puzzling XnView. And here, I suspect I am to blame with my PCHires tool!
Conclusion: it's all my fault, I will take a look at PCHires!
http://www.xnview.com/en/formats.html#o
I tried to load a simple Oric Hires file, renamed .HIR, with or without tape header, and it failed with an "unknown format" error message.
Did someone ever manage to use this?
What exact format should it be?
EDIT: ok, there are 2 possibilities:
- loading a .HIR format (no header I suppose), didn't manage to use it but it seems I had 4 useless bytes at the end, which is probably the problem
- loading a .TAP format, which runs fine with coloured pictures, but not with monochrom pictures (they seem to be shifted by 4 bytes, ie 24 pixels).
EDIT2: now that's very strange, despite the fact that the memory addresses are correct in the TAP header, I just noticed ALL my monochrom files have 4 useless bytes at the end. That's what seems to be puzzling XnView. And here, I suspect I am to blame with my PCHires tool!
Conclusion: it's all my fault, I will take a look at PCHires!