C64 Pixel Tools

These are two simple tools I used to make Rescuing Orc.

Convert PNG images into sprites and tilesets to be used by the Commodore 64.

• img2sprite.py
• img2tileset.py

Each tool has help in the CLI with -h.

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• Pillow

img2sprite

This tool takes an indexed PNG image and encodes it as a valid multicolor sprite.

The transparent and sprite specific colors can be specified with a flag, the shared colours are in ascending order.

The colors are not included in the output.

img2tileset

This tool takes an indexed PNG image and encodes it as a valid 4x8 multicolor tileset (charset).

The shared colors must be provided as a colon-separated list (eg. 0:1:12). The foreground is detected per tile (from 0 to 7, the tool converts it automatically to the 8 to 15 range).