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Re: Bad Apple as FLI (Autodesk Animator) file.
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:33 am
by ahenry3068
A bit off topic but I'm getting my New (old stock)IDE HDD (from China !!!) In the next couple days.
Western Digital 7200 rpm 360gb
(still have a little cognitive dissonance that I paid $55.00 when I just bought a 1 tb SSD for < $40.00
just a few weeks ago... IDE interface HDD's are in short supply... Just hope no Bad CAPS.
I've been playing with my (Semi-Retro) P4 system with just a RAM drive. and I'm kind of
excited to be having a DOS system to play with again.
Its actually a LOT more powerful than any system I ran DOS on before..... It would actually
make a decent Win XP or Win 2000 system...
3.2 ghz P4. Got it with 512 mb's of RAM and have added another Gigabyte (The RAM only
came from NJ. so it got here faster than the HDD. )
PCX Header code
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:23 am
by ahenry3068
Well I think I'm closer to see with this PCX Header
I've been studying Prog8 code and I got the Data
Types mixed up in my head. Still have to get the proper type for the "Reserved" area in the Header.
Code: Select all
struct PCXH {
unsigned char id;
unsigned char ver;
unsigned char enc;
unsigned char bits;
unsigned char minx;
unsigned char miny;
unsigned char maxx;
unsigned char maxy;
unsigned word hDPI;
unsigned word yDPI;
48 bytes EGA Pallette
unsigned char reserved;
unsigned char planes;
unsigned word bytesperline;
unsigned word colormode;
unsigned word hRes;
unsigned word vRes;
54 bytes reserved;
}
Re: Bad Apple as FLI (Autodesk Animator) file.
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 5:31 pm
by desertfish
Re: Bad Apple as FLI (Autodesk Animator) file.
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:38 pm
by ahenry3068
I appreciate the input as always... Should have known you already had an implementation.
I've kinda made the decision to go with C. It should be less of a learning curve for me if I ever get
a few days just to Code. (I need to retire
)...
I really do appreciate the input Desertfish.
Re: Bad Apple as FLI (Autodesk Animator) file.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 4:16 am
by mortarm
I'm probably a little unique on here that my very first programming experience in about 1984 was on a 32 bit system.
Gotcha beat there, Junior. My first experience was on an IBM 370/138 back in '76. Loved that system; got pretty good at JCL, too.
The available compilers were BASIC, FORTRAN & COBOL.
Those were my first three languages I learned. Hated Fortran but loved COBOL.
Re: Bad Apple as FLI (Autodesk Animator) file.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 6:11 pm
by Edmond D
mortarm wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 4:16 am
Those were my first three languages I learned. Hated Fortran but loved COBOL.
As a teen geek on a SuperPet, I had access to Fortran and COBOL (plus a structured BASIC). I got Fortran easily, COBOL didn't make sense, perhaps because it was orientated to business programming. I lived through the Y2K scare where people were getting into COBOL because there was demand and money in it, but isn't it a near dead language now?
It would be interesting to have someone port COBOL to the X16; maybe that would encourage me to look at it again and try and understand how it works.
BTW - Business still doesn't make sense to me as an elderly geek.
Re: Bad Apple as FLI (Autodesk Animator) file.
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2023 3:53 pm
by mortarm
...people were getting into COBOL because there was demand and money in it, but isn't it a near dead language now?
Nope. For business applications it's still widely used.
It would be interesting to have someone port COBOL to the X16...
Heh, I wouldn't count on it. Not much call for business languages on 8-bit machines.
Re: Bad Apple as FLI (Autodesk Animator) file.
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2023 3:57 pm
by ahenry3068
I did some stuff with Fortran.. It is actually pretty similar to BASIC. COBOL
is another world. It was kind of DBASE before DBASE....
Re: Bad Apple as FLI (Autodesk Animator) file.
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 12:54 pm
by Edmond D
mortarm wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 3:53 pm
...people were getting into COBOL because there was demand and money in it, but isn't it a near dead language now?
Nope. For business applications it's still widely used.
It would be interesting to have someone port COBOL to the X16...
Heh, I wouldn't count on it. Not much call for business languages on 8-bit machines.
I spent a little time reading the Wikipedia page on COBOL -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#Legacy. It seems that it won't go away any time soon, despite efforts. One knows it's in trouble when IBM supports it
https://developer.ibm.com/languages/cobol/
I did say it would be interesting to have it as a language for the X16: I didn't say it would be practical...
I may have taken this thread way off base/topic, but I view COBOL as retro-tech.