#GIF to HAM or IFF
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Steve,
Count me in as one of those that are anxious to see what you come up with.
I have started on the same thing in FORTH (I don't C), but I haven't gotten IFF
totally figured out yet. Are you using the info from the ROM kernel EXEC
manual, or maybe CBM's IFF manual and disk. I am trying to find someone with
some experience with the IFF manual and disk to find out if it is worth the
purchase price.
As far as GIF goes, where can I find the specification and/or
documentation and/or source code examples? Anywhere on CIS? I will use any C
language source listings that are available (I doubt there are any in Forth
yet). I can at least read C, even though I don't like to program in it. When
are all you people going to come FORTH to the ONLY good programming language?
<grin, chuckle>
(( Dan ))
I've looked at both. But I must admit… I cheated. <grin> Jim Kent had
uploaded a C module which did a nice, quick job of reading IFF modules, and
I just appropriated it… <grin> For writing the IFF file, I'll probably
do something similar, although I'm probably gonna have to make changes…
I'm fairly certain that this module (jiff.c, part of an older display
program called PLOP) is in one of the DLs over on AmigaTech. And there are
bound to be numerous other examples there too…
As for FORTH, I'm an old tyme forth fanatic. (I even ported the fig-Forth
compiler over to a CDC Cyber as a project in college… 🙂 However, I
heartily dislike what's been done to the language over the years… I
prefer the original fig-Forth implementation, with mods so that it can
accept a plain text file as input, instead of a bunch of Forth screens…
(And, of course, a library for working with the native machine's
functions…) But for serious programming, I use C, which is more all
around effective (although there are occational times where Forth is
better…). –>Steve Bennett