-One day later: Starcraft Prizm arrives.

DJ, no truer words spoken!

Even if not, porting S.A.D. to color is something that someone would have my permission to do.

Anyone know the processor speed?

The Mono website does not do a good job of explaining how I can use Mono to run a VB.net application on Macintosh and Linux.  Can anyone enlighten me?

Nemo, here's some test data, something I would expect someone to copy and paste in.

But first, I forgot two things.  First of all, for an 8-pixel wide font, after the string is turned around, every 1st-6th character should be skipped (1st through 4th for 16 wide).  That was my mistake.  The other thing is, even though the text is turned backwards, it's done in pairs--look carefully at the following example:    OMNIMAGA becomes GAMANIOM.

For an 8-pixel-wide font:  FA000000FA000000EA000000EA000000DD000000DD000000CA000000CA000000.  The output should be CACADDDDEAEAFAFA.

For a 16-pixel-wide font: 1122000023340000344500004556000056670000.  The output should be 67565645453434232211

Raylin, that story rocks

ohh... i just finished number one... i don't anticipate #2 being very hard though.

It's not hard.  It's just that #1 is easier 0_0

Anyways, in case #2 works for you, feel free to do a command prompt or a GUI.

The user selects a monochrome .bmp file to select.  He also specifies the height (from 1 to 16), the width (from 1 to 16), the minimum value (from 0 to 255), the maximum value (from 0 to 255, cannot be less than minimum value), and the program name, which must be EXACTLY 8 characters.

I've attached a sample compiled font, though I don't have the original .bmp with me.

The file format: (Let me know if you have questions)
A star means the ASCII value of the character to be written to the file.
Quotes is a string to be written to the file.
For a double star, convert the two-byte value to little edian, and then write the value to the file

"**TI83F*"
*26
*10
*0
"Ti-83+ Font.  Used by Correlation.        "
** The size of the entire file, minus 57

----------------- (Ignore these dashes)


*13
*0
** The size of the .8xp program
*5
Eight-Character Program Name
*1
*0
** The size of the .8xp program
** The size of the .8xp program (This marks the beginning of the Ti-83+ program)
*User-Specified Width
*User-Specified Height
*User-Specified Minimum Value
*User-Specified Maximum Value
*255
*0       (This marks the end of the Ti-83+ program.)
**Check-sum (Take the sum of all bytes following the -------------, use AND %1111111111111111)

can i have some test data / expected output?

Okay, eager beaver!   If it's option number #2, you're hired (and thanks!).  But before I can give you the data, I just need to make sure that it's #2 that you're wanting to do.