Re: FormatConverter, was Re: Many File Formats: do they bother you?

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

David Schmidt wrote:
> On 7/13/2012 3:37 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
>> The germ of an idea I had a few months ago is now developing.
>>
>> My idea is to solve the problem from the Downloads server side, and to
>> that
>> end I am developing technology which I hereby dub FormatConverter™. I
>> am
>> teaching it to recognize each file format by examining the magic number
>> or
>> other identifying characteristics.
> 
> What you've just described is the engine of CiderPress.  In one end, it 
> knows how to decode the magic numbers of lots of file formats, and lots 
> of the quirks and bugs about each.  In the middle is a common underlying 
> representation of disk and filesystem information.  Out the other end, 
> you can manipulate what's there, or convert the whole thing to another 
> output format (shk, sdk, dsk, nib, whatever).
>

I just stopped by the CiderPress site. It's Windows-only, which I had known.
I don't use Windows.

But the other features are interesting. I'll have to research .nib more
carefully. I've always considered it a black box.

It's one step at a time for me.

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