Re: a random update to peekbot

[mh4@deichjugend.de]

On Nov 25, 8:49 pm, jonnosan <jonno...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think I worked out what's causing the 'camping problem' while
> driving to work just now, will try and fix it tonight.

That's great!

> The thumbnail view of all HGR is a neat idea, it will need a bit of
> fiddling with the internals to make it work without maxing out the cpu
> on my web host, so might take a few weeks till I get a chance to do
> that.

Time well spent, IMHO.

> Not sure what to do about the false positives - for Apple DOS dsks,
> I'm assuming that anything that is loaded to $2000 or $4000 and is
> between 8184 and 9000 bytes long is a HGR picture. (the file size
> range was determined from the sizes of things that I know really are
> pictures). I'd be happy to get some advice on better heuristics
> though.

False positives would be no real problem as long as the program
does not crash, IMHO.
I also do think that the program may get too complicated to be
universal at one point (expansions for Atari or Commodores?).

bye
Marcus