Microsoft KB Archive/76730

= Microsoft Knowledge Base =

Program Available to BLOAD/BSAVE Four Plane PICEM Images
Last reviewed: May 30, 1996

Article ID: Q76730

SUMMARY
A program is available that combines information from several articles in the Microsoft knowledge base and gives a more complete example of BLOAD and BSAVE for graphics images. This program incorporates information on how to shell to PICEM210 (a shareware utility) to display a graphics image, how to BLOAD/BSAVE the graphics file with four color planes, and how to save the video card palette registers associated with the image.

This information applies to Microsoft Basic Professional Development System (PDS) versions 7.0 and 7.1 for MS-DOS. NOTE: Portions of this program may be modified to make the program compatible with Microsoft QuickBasic versions 4.0, 4.0b, and 4.5, and with Microsoft Basic Compiler versions 6.0 and 6.0b.

You can find BCPICSAV.EXE, a self-extracting file, on these services:

  Microsoft's World Wide Web site on the Internet On the www.microsoft.com home page, click the Support icon Click Knowledge Base, and select the product Enter kbfile BCPICSAV.EXE, and click GO! Open the article, and click the button to download the file   Internet (anonymous FTP) ftp ftp.microsoft.com Change to the Softlib/Mslfiles folder Get BCPICSAV.EXE   The Microsoft Network On the Edit menu, click Go To, and then click Other Location Type &quot;mssupport&quot; (without the quotation marks) Double-click the MS Software Library icon Find the appropriate product area Locate and Download BCPICSAV.EXE   Microsoft Download Service (MSDL) Dial (206) 936-6735 to connect to MSDL Download BCPICSAV.EXE 

For additional information about downloading, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q119591 TITLE    : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

MORE INFORMATION
The program example shows one method of using PICEM210 to display a .GIF, .PCX, or .PIC graphics image and BSAVE the image to disk. This program is intended to save and load images in screen modes with more than one bit plane. For example, screen modes 9 (640-by-350-by-16) and 12 (640-by-480-by-16) have four bit planes. This program can also save screen mode 13 (320-by-200-by-256) graphics images, but PICEM210 already has the ability to save one bit plane image in the Basic BSAVE format without using this separate Basic program.

PICEM210 is a freeware graphics file viewing utility that can display .GIF, .PCX, .PIC file formats and is required to make this program run. It is available as a shareware product. For more information on PICEM, please read its README file PICEM210.DOC, or query on the following word:

PICEM