compyx/mp-to-koa

Convert Mutipaint to Koala

mp-to-koa

Convert Mutipaint to Koala

This is a simple tool to convert Multipaint .bin files to a native-C64 Koala format. The idea is when some creates a new file in Multipaint and saves it as .bin, we can just drop the file into a project dir and run make without having to run Multipaint to export to Advanced Art Studio.

Prerequisites

• A C99-compliant compiler (Don't use MSVC, use msys2 for Windows)
• A fairly recent 64tass if you want to run the ./run_test.sh script
• VICE if you want to run the ./run_test.sh script

Building

$ make

Testing

The easiest way to test is just running ./run_test.sh. This will run the tool on data/focus-3d.bin, generate focus-3d.koa and generate a .prg which is run via x64sc. This requires a fairly modern 64tass and x64sc-gtk3 in $PATH, which I suppose most people won't have, so the run_test.sh script accepts an argument to set the proper VICE binary.

Another way is using the Makefile:

$ make KOALA='\"../data/focus-3d.koa\"' show_koala.prg

(Yes, all the weird quotes are important)

Run with:

$ x64sc ./show_koala.prg