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On 11/30/08 11:14 AM, in article nospam-CBC697.11143030112008@news.motzarella.org, "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

In article <07e02b5c-d3d7-49c7-8805-b303f76440fd@u18g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
jonnosan <jonnosan@gmail.com> wrote:

On Nov 30, 6:13 pm, m...@deichjugend.de wrote:

I also do think that the program may get too complicated to be
universal at one point (expansions for Atari or Commodores?).

I think the basic architecture should be able to handle a lot of
different machines without becoming too complex to maintain- each
native file type gets it's own source file in a folder named after
the host machine, and that 1 file includes
1) whatever tests are necessary to determine if a file is of that type
(e.g. by looking at file system meta data, or file size, load address,
or headers)
2) a function that renders that native file into something useful
(text, a listing, a png, etc).

[...]

I love seeing the other systems!

My favorite fallback--a hex dump:

I've been really excited by this project. It was my request that TI-99 stuff
be added, because TI stuff has been virtually "invisible". It has always
been that way. That, and TRS-80 stuff has always been "off the radar".

It was great seeing TI Artist pictures, TI text files, and GIF images
(although those are really from other systems anyway).

Can't wait to see the addition of Basic program decoding.

And again, I'm willing to help out anyway I can!

Thanks for adding the TI-99 stuff - we're usually ignored...

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In article <C5583994.9CF2%bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net>,
winston19842005 <bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net> wrote:

On 11/30/08 11:14 AM, in article nospam-CBC697.11143030112008@news.motzarella.org, "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

[...]

I love seeing the other systems!

I've been really excited by this project. It was my request that TI-99 stuff be added, because TI stuff has been virtually "invisible". It has always
been that way. That, and TRS-80 stuff has always been "off the radar".

It was great seeing TI Artist pictures, TI text files, and GIF images (although those are really from other systems anyway).

Can't wait to see the addition of Basic program decoding.

I though the listings were generated from the images.

I never used the other systems, but it was seeing a friend's TRS-80 one
snowy day that sent me shopping. I used a TI monitor for several years
with my Apple II. I recall the dealer having to explain tot he vendor
that there wasn't a problem, just Apple II users needing to give back
the family TV!

--
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmatthews/
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John B. Matthews wrote:

In article <C5583994.9CF2%bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net>,
winston19842005 <bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net> wrote:

...

Can't wait to see the addition of Basic program decoding.

I though the listings were generated from the images.

The listings are generated from de-tokenizing the Basic programs.
Problem is that a file labeled "PROGRAM" on a TI-99 may be a Basic
program or assembly program or even a screen dump. A better name would
be "memory image". Sort of like a BSAVE.

And I'm not sure that there is anything in the Basic program image to
tell that it is a Basic program.

Another monkey wrench is that Basic programs can also be in data file
format.
1. DISPLAY/VARIABLE 163 is a Merge file. Extended Basic allows you to
merge program segments together, but they have to be saved in "merge"
format to do this.
2. INTERNAL/FIXED 254 is an Extended Basic program that has become
larger than the buffer space that the SAVE/LOAD operations have
available, so they are written out as records.
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