PNGView

Copyright 2017 Laurens Holst

Project information

Shows PNG files on MSX.

It currently supports PNG files which are stored progressively (most of them), including those with transparency. Since no scaling is applied to the output, it works best with images of size 256x212 or smaller. Beware that because it first decompresses the PNG fully before showing it, it can be very memory hungry.

What remains before making an official release is to:

Downloads

See the release notes for what’s new.

Media

Example image in screen 8.

System requirements

Usage instructions

Run PNGView from MSX-DOS 2, specifying the PNG file to show on the command line.

Usage:

pngview [options] <image.png>

To configure Multi Mente to show PNG files, add the following line to MMRET.DAT:

.PNG    PNGVIEW $T

Development information

PNGView is free and open source software. If you want to contribute to the project you are very welcome to. Please contact me at any one of the places mentioned in the project information section.

You are also free to re-use code for your own projects, provided you abide by the license terms.

Building the project is easy on all modern desktop platforms. On MacOS and Linux, simply invoke make to build the binary and symbol files into the bin directory:

make

Windows users can open the Makefile and build by pasting the line in the all target into the Windows command prompt.

To launch the build in openMSX after building, put a copy of MSXDOS2.SYS and COMMAND2.COM and some PNG files to test with in the bin directory, and then invoke the make run command.

Note that the glass assembler which is embedded in the project requires Java 8. To check your Java version, invoke the java -version command.

Release notes

For the complete list of changes please refer to the revision history.

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