Re: a random update to peekbot

[winston19842005 <bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net>]

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...