The tool PETSCII2BASIC, in combination with Marc's PETSCII Editor, is probably what you are looking for. The editor allows you to draw a PETSCII, and PETSCII2BASIC converts it into BASIC code, taking care of printing the PETSCII characters correctly.

The tool PETSCII2BASIC, in combination with Marc's PETSCII Editor, is probably what you are looking for. The editor allows you to draw a PETSCII, and PETSCII2BASIC converts it into BASIC code, taking care of printing the PETSCII characters correctly.

To use the toolchain,

• draw or import your image in Marc's PETSCII Editor and save it, you get a file filename.c
• run PETSCII2BASIC.py filename.c to generate a .PRG file based on the filename containing a BASIC program that can be used on a C64 (native or emulator)

PETSCII2BASIC.py -? gives you several options, including starting line number, line number increment, and other output formats.