Has anyone written a script (for imagemagick or ffmpeg maybe), a GIMP plugin or an app than can convert a PNG of any bit depth to a PNG file that gconvert will accept as input that does a best effort job on converting the input image to use the UB's palette?
You can use a command like this to brute force the conversion of the file format, ignoring the UBs specific palette:
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convert maze1-rgb.png +dither -colors 256 PNG8:maze1.png
Whilst I'm talking about UB dev apps, I've noticed utracker is missing from:
http://uzebox.org/wiki/Main_Page#Tools
I've not tried utracker yet but it can be downloaded on the forum.
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9967&hilit=tracker
Is that the easiest way to write music for the UB soundchip, presuming it works well enough, for people who don't have a physical UB with a MIDI port? utracker is a VB6 app so I'd be running it in wine, which isn't ideal.
The tools page suggests Milkytracker but I don't think that has any specific UB support. You'd have to convert your .mod or .s3m into a MIDI file and then convert that into code that can you used in your UB game as I understand it. That's not a great workflow.