FAIL 1.2.0 released

[fox]

Last friday I have released a new version of my viewer of Atari 8-bit pictures for Windows and Linux under a funny name "FAIL" . This version supports about fifty file formats.

 

Download from the website: http://fail.sourceforge.net/

[devwebcl]

Hi Fox,

 

This is a great piece of software, although I just wonder why doesn't have G2F support...

 

Cheers,

 

--Devwebcl

[fox]

G2F support is on top of the todo list. G2F has many features which make implementing it somewhat complicated (it needs large parts of cycle-exact GTIA and ANTIC emulation). Also, Graph2Font is closed source and I keep asking Tebe for explanation of the format. I think I'm close to understanding it.

[+JAC!]

Maybe it'd be easier to have a bitmap thumbail included in the G2F directly - esp. for thumbfail

[sack-c0s]

*50* file formats?

 

With that level of support you should've probably called it EPIC FAIL

[atarixle]

How to install this in Linux?

[frogstar_robot]

How to install this in Linux?

 

It has to be built from the source in the tar.gz file. It wasn't bad at all as such things go. I'll build it on the machine in my back bedroom later and relate the steps.

[frogstar_robot]

How to install this in Linux?

 

On a debian derivative such as Debian, Mint, Ubuntu run the following first:

 

apt-get install libpng12-dev zlib1g-dev

 

Then do:

 

tar xvfz fail-1.2.0.tar.gz

cd fail-1.2.0/

make

 

If all goes well this will create a fail2png binary in the fail-1.2.0 directory. To use it all you have to is

 

./fail2png <atari_picture_file>

 

and it will produce a png version of the atari pic you can open in a viewer such as geeqie.

 

You can try it out by downloading:

 

http://fail.sourceforge.net/examples.zip

 

mkdir examples (I did this in the fail-1.2.0 dir)

mv where_you_saved_to/examples.zip ~/fail-1.2.0/examples

cd ~/fail-1.2.0/examples

unzip examples.zip

rm examples.zip

../fail2png *

[fox]

Linux compilation instructions are in README.html in the tar.gz. Also, there are GNOME thumnailer and ImageMagick coder in addition to the command-line fail2png.