pbmonherc 1.0 review

pbmonherc will display a .pbm graphics file on a Hercules video adapter. I know, nobody uses hercules adapters anymore, but still,

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Dan Stromberg

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pbmonherc will display a .pbm graphics file on a Hercules video adapter.

I know, nobody uses hercules adapters anymore, but still, I thought some might find it amusing to look over this program anyway.

pbmonherc is basically a program that displays a NetPBM/PBMPlus .pbm file on a hercules adapter. It was intended for Linux, and was written (and useful :) back before Linux had an X11 or MGR implementation on it yet.

BTW, hercules pixels aren't square, so to get a decent aspect ratio:
seki-strombrg> cat pnmherc
#!/bin/sh

pnmscale -xscale 1.625 "$@" |
pnmscale -xysize 720 348 |
ppmtopgm |
pgmtopbm