Nice.

Uh, thanks. Its strange that i got a faw and a comment so quickly. Now i know when its time to get popular. :)

*laughs* Rainbows? Its merely the lack of colours that have driven me to make the pic like this :)

I wish roses came in rainbow color!

Whoa, thanks for the message. :)

What do you mean with "how"?

I drew it with a program called "Seven up"

With a crossplatform graphics utility called sevenup.

Beautiful as itself, and bring memories to me.

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(hope you don't mind testing my script on your image)

Wow, nice. How did you get the bitmap right? Its a mess... :O

Well, the script takes each square 8x8 and reduces it to 2 colors. Then one of the colors becomes white, other black. Does not extract the actual bitmap, but plausible.

Oh WOW!

thanks :)

Was this done an an actual ZX?

Actually no, since saving data in a Spectrum is tiresome and hard to keep track of if you don't have a reliable disk system. And it's also hard to transfer these pictures to the PC except if you connect the Spectrum to a TV tuner on PC.

It is drawn with a program called "Sevenup" from Spanish coder Metalbrain.

Oh! I see. I suppose there's no SD card disk emulator that you can connect to a Spectrum, like for the C64?

Well, the concepts of using mass storage between Spectrum and the C64 could not be more different. The newest incarnation of the divide is said to emulate all kinds of floppy drives, but not all of these floppy emulators work alright with a Fat formatted card. For example, my Tape emulating firmware requires the card to be formatted in the ISO9660 format.

And then it's difficult to get a mouse of spectrum. There are different kinds of mice and not all drawing programs use any kind of mouse.

On the C64, it's a little less difficult. The maximum amount of effort is a X-1541 cable where you connect the drive to a PC...

Actually, the device I have is just basically an SD card reader for the C64. It has an SD card slot, and it plugs into the serial port.

So you're talking about something like the 1541-III. Yeah, on the spectrum it has to be a device that plugs into the expansion port, maps a rom into the area where in the spectrum rom is empty space (about 4kb) are reroutes the tape loading routines to the emulated tape deck on the card.

Huh. And that doesn't work for images?

what do you mean? I don't even have a JOYSTICK for the spectrum, not to speak of a mouse. :D

Oh, so you can't draw on it then.

Hey, I did something cool with your image, https://www.dropbox.com/s/akkcjbqfjhebt3u/rose.gif

eerph came up with the script that did it, it's pretty cool.

thanks. That's probably how it would look like, yes. :)

You're welcome! Yeah I never had the opportunity to have a Spectrum unfortunately.