Version 2.0.1 of ALBERT, the pixel art editor for creating extended Commodore 64 images, is now available on its official homepage.

This is a minor update delivering the following changes:

• Fixed the logic to reposition the pencil for connecting lines when undoing or redoing changes
• Fixed the setting of border color in non-extended hires mode
• Fixed the clipping region for flood fill in extended hires mode
• Fixed the visibility of connecting lines so that they are visible with any background color

Binaries are available for Windows and macOS (Intel). For Linux users, Docker images are published on Docker Hub here.

Stay tuned for more!

Version 2.0.0 of ALBERT, the pixel art editor for creating extended Commodore 64 images, is now available on its official homepage.

Binaries are available for Windows and macOS (Intel). For Linux users, Docker images are published on Docker Hub here.

This update delivers the following changes:

• When the pixel pen tool is active, pressing Shift and a mouse click draws a connecting line to the mouse pointer position
• Persist the open/closed state of the script and preview windows too
• Fixed the lookup of sprite attribute byte from the previous row when color switching is not allowed
• Added the option to drag the program into the Applications folder when mounting the DMG for macOS
• Rationalised several UI items/wording
• Added support for embedding a preview in project files (not backward compatible)
• Show ‘(unsaved)’ in the app title bar to advise a project has changes not yet saved to file
• Added the “Open Recent” menu, including dynamical removal of invalid entries
  PRG files are saved and exomized in a temporary folder before being moved to their user-selected location
• PRG file export runs in a separate thread
• Added support for sending PRG files to an Ultimate device
• The actual fraction of work completed is now tracked by the progress bar while loading/saving a project or saving workstages
• Added a context menu to keep the preview window on top

A few more sample projects are also included in each distribution package and in a separate archive.

Dulcis in fundo, I am including a few visuals here:

ALBERT: About dialog

ALBERT: open project dialog

ALBERT: open recent menu

ALBERT: macOS drag to install window

Version 1.2.1 of ALBERT, the pixel art editor for creating extended Commodore 64 images, is now available on its official homepage.

Binaries are available for Windows and macOS (Intel). For Linux users, Docker images are published on Docker Hub here.

This is a minor update delivering the following changes:

• Fixed the logic for saving project files

In fact, there was an issue in version 1.2.0 where a bit was not set correctly when saving an extended image project to disk.

Stay tuned for more!

Version 1.2.0 of ALBERT, the pixel art editor for creating extended Commodore 64 images, is now available on its official homepage.

Binaries are available for Windows and macOS (Intel). For Linux users, Docker images are published on Docker Hub here.

This update delivers the following changes:

• Added support for creating non-extended images
• Fixed background/border color display widget update when starting a new project

A few more sample projects are also included in each distribution package and in a separate archive, contributed by Joachim.

Stay tuned for more!

Version 1.1.2 of ALBERT, the pixel art editor for creating extended Commodore 64 images, is now available on its official homepage. Binaries are available for Windows and macOS (Intel). For Linux users, Docker images are published on Docker Hub here.

ALBERT: About dialog

This is a minor update delivering the following changes:

• Fixed syntax highlighting for the scripting window under macOS
• Revised the drawstar() Lua function to only accept the star’s width and automatically calculate its height to guarantee radial symmetry
• Added support for Drean (PAL-N) systems to the stable code for the Commodore 64
• Added avatars to the About dialog and slightly refactored its contents
• Added another sample project

Happy Easter to Everyone!

Version 1.1.1 of ALBERT, the pixel art editor for creating extended Commodore 64 images, is now available on its official homepage.
Binaries are available for Windows and macOS (Intel). For Linux users, Docker images are published on Docker Hub here.

This is a minor update delivering the following fix to a bug reported by ElfKaa:

• Fixed the coordinate validation for flood fill to avoid a memory access violation