SCB Editor II

Creation: December 31th, 2023..2026, by Renaud Malaval
Last review: January 3rd, 2026, by Renaud Malaval

Features

This is an application to do modification of bmp file to prepare convertion to Apple IIGS pic format file. The goal is to increase the number of color used in your pic files with usage of SCB. This is an help for cross-dev on Linux Mint (Debian and Red Hat package), Mac OS Monterey, Windows. BMP file supported are 4 (converted to 8) and 8 bits / per pixels. When your bmp files is ready you could convert it with convm

⚠️ Before usage of SCB Editor II, make a backup of your bmp files!

note : My first release was on Apple IIGS S.C.B. Editor version 1.5a You could found it in the image scbeditor.img. Pascal source code is loozed.

Documentations

• Software overview
• Files overview

Versions

• Quality repport

Notes

• Linux Mint Xia: The Debian package .deb is created on Linux Mint Xia (v22.1)
  ⚠️ Not tested. The Red Hat package .rpm is converted by Alien

• Mac OSx86 Monterey : Homebrew

• Windows 11 : Check it before install it, please
  If your antivirus find some think, send me a mail, please

• Windows 10 : :warning: Microsoft Defender found PUA:Win32/Packunwan but I think that is an error
  Clamav, Malwarebytes, RogueKiller and Trellix don't found it on the exe file and on my hard drive
  Check it before install it, please
  If your antivirus find some think, send me a mail, please

• Create Release : A complete release could be created with "Delivery.sh"
  I'm using it currently for internal usage and testing
  I have to create an ".venv" environment to simplify it

Tools

• Python
  • Windows 11 : 3.12.10 with Tkinter : 8.6.15
  • Linux Mint v22.1 : 3.12.3 with Tkinter : 8.6.15
  • Mac OSx86 v12.7.6 : 3.13.3 with Tkinter : 9.0.2
• Python modules
  • pip
  • pylint
  • pyinstaller
  • pillow
• Homerew : A Package Manager for Mac OS
  • Midnight commander : brew install midnight-commander
  • nano : brew install nano
  • dos2unix : brew install dos2unix
  • create-dmg : brew install create-dmg
  • gnu tools : brew install gnu-sed gawk coreutils findutils
  • shell ask gpg code : brew install pinentry
• Oracle VirtualBox : A full virtualization software for x86_64 hardware
• Visual Studio Code : IDE (with somes extensions)
• Mark Text : A viewer for markdown file (.md)
• GIT : Distributed version control system
• Sourcetree : A beautiful Git GUI
• Inno Setup : Create on an installor for Windows
• 7-Zip : A file archiver
• GIMP : A picture editor
• Image Magick Display : To convert .png to .icns
• XnView : To view .icns Mac Os icon file on Windows
• FlatIcon : Source of wonderful free pictures

Development

Linux

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Windows

pip install -r requirements.txt

Mac OS

install Homebrew

brew install git brew install midnight-commander brew install python brew install pillow brew install pylint brew install pyinstaller brew install create-dmg brew install imagemagick brew install dos2unix brew install gnu-sed gawk coreutils findutils

Source code GIT

git clone https://github.com/Malaval-Ren/scbeditor2.git

note : https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments

Source code archive

Decompress the archive file (.zip, .tar.gz)

type command in a shell to start it :

python scbeditor2.py

or

python3 scbeditor2.py

Build with Pyinstaller

Linux

On a Bash shell version 5.x

type command :

./Delivery.sh

Mac OS

On a Bash shell version 5.x

type :

./Delivery.sh

Windows

On a Bash shell version 5.x installed by GIT

Type command :

./Delivery.sh