Subj : FMail 2.3.0.0 public beta release
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Stephen Walsh
Date : Sat Mar 23 2024 10:36 am
Hello Wilfred!
21 Mar 24 08:10, you wrote to me:
WV>>> Not really. ;-) I think there are more important things on the
WV>>> todo list.
SW>> That's understandable, I doubt you'd have a huge M68K user
SW>> base... Mostly a count of 1... #-)
WV> You are not using it! So 0. ;-)
Yes. The use case is way out west on a deserted road looking at the ground. &-)
Plus see latter in this message.
SW>> I just looked through what andrew did to add M68K support in
SW>> Talisman BBS and it's not just a few lines of code...
WV> Making the pkt code endianness agnostic isn't a big task. My pktviewer
WV> code does it. I wrote it decades ago, so it would compile on both the
WV> Amiga and PC. ;-)
Do you want me to test it? Link to the code?
WV> But doing so for the three supported messagebases (msg, hudson, jam),
WV> is a huge pain in the ass, because the code for these is all over the
WV> place.
It's a chicken & egg issue..
Magicka supports JAM but is no longer supported.
Talisman only supports squish, but is still supported!