Comic Bock Viewer for Dreamcast?

[Anthony817]

Hey guys, I been compiling a ton of Dreamcast magazines together at DCisozone, and hope to have as full of a collection there for you all to download for free someday to read all the great DC mags in English and other languages perhaps?

Anyway, I just got my MGS Camo PSP-3000 to work with a demo exploit to allow me to run homebrew and emulators and apps. Well, I found a CBZ file reader program, which reads the Comic Book Format. I know it is a long shot, but I wonder if anybody could look at porthing the PSP CBR program to DC? I know some other emulators and maybe homebrew have come to DC in the form of ports, so who else thinks it would be a great idea to get a CBZ file reader app on Dreamcast?

It could be easy to add books in the "Comics" folder like it is on PSP, but maybe with the SD adapter and a good enough programmer.

Here is the program I was refering to, and I know it is a long-shot, but it would be a really great idea to have something like this on DC, as we could do stratigy guides, Shenmu comics and other Dreamcast magazines/user manuals/guides.

http://exophase.com/3469/pspcomic-v10/

Anyway, if y'all are interested on all the DC magazines I have uploaded to isozone, you can get them below. Some highly recommended retro reading for on the road if you have a PSP that can play the files or other Pocket PC or Smart fone device.

This first one is the last 5 and first 2 UK Saturn and Dreamcast mags respectively, includes CBR reader program for CBR/CBZ files
http://www.dcisozone.com/downloads/1920 ... -pack.html

My first ever Dreamcast related magazine, "EGM DC edition" with program for reading book.
http://www.dcisozone.com/downloads/1926 ... Issue.html

Does not include book reader program
http://www.dcisozone.com/downloads/1998 ... -2000.html

[TeamXlink]

This should be relatively simple. All cbz is is an archive type format, and it can't be extracted to view the images inside. This shouldn't be too hard.

[Anthony817]

Hey bro, could you take a look at this program? It is a .jpeg slideshow viewer for Dreamcast. Maybe I could convert all those magazines to jpeg format for this and put them on a cdi readable in a Dreamcast on your TV! Oh shit man, imagine the possibilities!

http://www.dcisozone.com/downloads/1680 ... iewer.html

JPEG slideshow 1.0 12/27/2001

http://www.reeserworld.com
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This is basic jpeg slideshow / viewer. It is built using kallistios version 1.0.0 by Cryptic Allusions and Andrew Kieschnick's port of jpeg-6b. Modified code form AndrewK/NAPALM's MP3 player, form the DCTONIC CD, was used for the file browser and font.

Only RGB jpegs not greyscale images are supported and the height * width in pixels must be smaller than 1,048,576.

The pictures that you want to be able to browse throught must be in a directory called 'pic' in the root of the CD and ones that are to be in the slideshow must be in a directory called 'saver' also in the root of the CD. The saver directory must not conain any non-jpeg files or it will freeze if it chooses it.

e.g. cd layout
x:\
pic\
pic1.jpg
pic2.jpg
saver\
pic1.jpg
pic2.jpg

NOTE: for some reason I could not get it to read from a XA mode2 CD file system, so the files must be on a seperate CD in data not XA format. If anyone has any sugestions to what it might be please let me know. email [email protected]

Controls:
Browser: manually choose files from directory 'pic'
Choose file from list: A
Go back one directory: B
Go back to slideshow/browse menu: START
When viewing picture from browser:
Next picture in list: A
Reset picture size and position: X
Back to file list: Y
Back to start of file list (cd/pic/ ): B
Zoom in: Right Trigger
Zoom out: Left Trigger
Move picture: D-pad and analog stick
Go back to slideshow/browse menu: START

Slideshow: a random slideshow of files in directory 'saver'
Pause/enter view mode similar to browse mode: A
Go back to slideshow/browse menu: START
When viewing picture from slideshow:
Reset picture size and position: X
Zoom in: Right Trigger
Zoom out: Left Trigger
Move picture: D-pad and analog stick
Go back to slideshow: START, A, B, and Y

http://www.reeserworld.com
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