Re: Spectrum Internet Suite

[spectrumdaddy@nospam.com (Ewen)]

Geoff,

> * Ewen never released the HTML parser/renderer code as open source.  Ewen
>   tells me it is almost 64k itself.  If it does go open source, it will be
>   challenge to support on an 8-bit Contiki platform. 

Currently the compiled code is around 60K, and is written in 16bit
ORCA/M assembler. It would indeed be a challenge to convert that to
8-bit, and in any case, I doubt if it would make any sense to adapt it
for an 8-bit platform.

As well as the 60K code, it uses additional memory when called. From the
outset, we all agreed that trying to render graphics was really out of
the question on even an accelerated IIgs, so as Geoff has said,
placeholder icons hold the actual links to the graphic files.

I have always approached writing my software from the point of view that
the final code should be able to run on any IIgs, and not require
anything special in the way of hardware or speed, that I could not
expect the average user to have. If a IIgs is not up to the job, then
there are plenty of other computers that are.

Ewen