A Concept Proved At Last
Feb. 2nd, 2024 06:26 pmIn the process of trying to make “RLE image files” that much more cross-platform by getting them displayed on an (emulated) TRS-80 Model I hooked up to a Percom Electric Crayon, I did realise at last that the Disk BASIC commands I’d discovered could read through an unformatted data file of arbitrary length also existed on the Color Computer. Back when I’d thought that would be much more involved, I’d instead found proper machine-language programs for that computer that could display RLE images. (While the very first one of them I’d tried had required an actual “CoCo” hooked up to another machine to send it the image file through its serial port, after lucking into a much more capable utility I’d then found the original CompuServe terminal program could also work in an offline mode to display the images first introduced to provide weather maps on that commercial online service.) Even so, the thought of proving the concept once more had me turning to BASIC manuals again.
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