From: Sean Cross (smcross_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 03 2004 - 12:15:24 PDT
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 14:05:48 -0500, Jim Witte <jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us> wrote:
> I got permission from Roger a while back to dowload his orginal
> source, the core of which is in assembly (for the PC!) I haven't
> looked at the code much at all, but my feeling is that the hardest part
> wouldn't be adding the loops, but the code to decipher the data format
> in the Newton package, especially if not all 4-32 channels have to be
> in the stream at once (where your could have only 4 at one point in
> time, but all 32 at some later time, and the software is left to figure
> out the offsets)
I'd like to take this time to point out wotsit.org: "The Programmer's File
Format Collection". The documentation at http://www.wotsit.org/ is top noch,
and I have used it in the past to build myself a small MOD decoder.
Granted, that's what you're starting out with, but the documentation for the
other formats is also quite good.
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