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DART 1.1 - Directory Art Importer   [2022]

DART 1.1 - Directory Art Importer Released by :
Genesis Project [web]

Release Date :
17 December 2022

Type :
Other Platform C64 Tool

AKA :
Dirart Importer - The Tool Everyone has to Write at Least Once

User rating:awaiting 8 votes (6 left)   See votestatistics

Credits :
Code .... Sparta of Genesis Project, OMG, Propaganda Magazine Staff
Test .... Ksubi of Genesis Project, Propaganda Magazine Staff

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Summary
Submitted by Sparta on 17 December 2022
DART is a simple command line tool that imports directory art from a variety of source file types to D64 disk images.

New in this release:
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- Added .PET, and .JSON source file support. The .PET file format can be created using Petmate and Mark's PETSCII Editor. The .JSON format is only created by Petmate.
- In overwrite mode, only the file names get overwritten, file types of existing entries remain untouched.
- Bug fixes.

Usage:
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DART input[*] [output.d64]

By default, DART will overwrite any existing directory entries in output.d64 without modifying the entries' type.
To append the imported DirArt to the existing directory entries without overwriting them, mark the input file with an
asterisk (i.e. input*, see example below). Thus, multiple DirArts can be imported in the same D64 as long as there
is space on track 18.

The [output.d64] parameter is optional. If not specified, DART will create an input_out.d64 file.

Accepted input file types:
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.D64 - DART will import all directory entries from the input file to the output file.

.PRG - DART accepts two file formats: screen RAM grabs (40-byte long char rows of which the first 16 is used as dir
       entries, can be more than 25 char rows long) and $a0 byte terminated directory entries*. If an $a0 byte is not
       detected sooner, then 16 bytes are imported per directory entry. DART then skips up to 24 bytes or until an
       $a0 byte detected. Example source code for $a0-terminated .PRG (KickAss format, must be compiled):

       * = $1000              // Address can be anything, will be skipped by DART
       .text "hello world!"   // This will be upper case once compiled
       .byte $a0              // Terminates directory entry
       .byte $30,$31,$32,$33,$34,$35,$36,$37,$38,$39,$01,$02,$03,$04,$05,$06,$a0

       *Char code $a0 (inverted space) is also used in standard directories to mark the end of entries on the disk.

.BIN - DART will treat this file type the same way as .PRGs, without the first two header bytes.

.ASM - KickAss ASM DirArt source file. Please refer to Chapter 11.6 in the Kick Assembler Reference Manual for
       details. The ASM file must only contain the file parameters within [] brackets, without disk parameters.
       DART only recognizes the name and type file parameters. Example:

       [name = "0123456789", type = "rel"],
       [name = @"\$75\$69\$75\$69\$B2\$69\$75\$69\$75\$ae\$B2\$75\$AE\$20\$20\$20", type="del"]

.C   - Marq's PETSCII Editor C array file. This file type can also be produced using Petmate. This is essentially a
       C source file which consists of a single unsigned char array declaration initialized with the dir entries.
       If present, DART will use the META: comment after the array to determine the dimensions of the DirArt.

.PET - This format is supported by Marq's PETSCII Editor and Petmate. DART will use the first two bytes of the input
       file to determine the dimensions of the DirArt, but it will ignore the next three bytes (border and background
       colors, charset) as well as color RAM data. DART will import max. 16 chars per directory entry.

.JSON- This format can be created using Petmate. DART will import max. 16 chars from each character row.

.PNG - Portable Network Graphics image file. Image input files can only use a single foreground color. DART will use
       the darker of the two colors as background color. Image width must be 128 pixels (16 characters), no borders
       allowed. Image files must use the uppercase charset and their appearance cannot rely on command characters.

.BMP - Bitmap image file. Same rules and limitations as with PNGs.

Any other file type will be handled as a binary file and will be treated as PRGs without the first two header bytes.

Limitations:
------------
DART doesn't import the directory's header and ID. The input file must only consist of the directory entries (with
the exception of D64 files where the directory header and ID will be ignored).

Examples:
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DART MyDirArt.d64
DART will create MyDirArt_out.d64 (if it doesn't already exist), and will import the whole directory of MyDirArt.d64
in it overwriting any preexisting directory entries.

DART MyDirArt.c MyDemo.d64
DART will import the DirArt from a Marq's PETSCII Editor C array file in MyDemo.d64 overwriting any preexisting
directory entries.

DART MyDirArt.asm* MyDemo.d64
DART will append the DirArt from a KickAss ASM source file to the existing directory entries of MyDemo.d64.
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