[Coco] Re: NIB files?

[Roger Taylor]

At 08:19 PM 11/6/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >From: "John Collyer" <johncollyer at zoominternet.net>
> >Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:55:58 -0500
>
> >NIBSHOW.EXE - a picture (NIB) viewer for virtual disk files
> >
> >John Collyer
> >  ----- Original Message -----=20
> >  From: AMODMO at aol.com=20
>
> >programs you can RUN and BIN programs, such as NIBLOADER.BIN which you =
> >can operate by typing LOADM "BINLOADER" That is a picture loader which =
> >displays pictures on your screen. Some issues have MUSIC.BAS, which runs =
>
>What's up with .NIB files, anyway?  They're about the only native CoCo
>graphics format that Projector-3 doesn't know about!

It was just too wierd for me to spend time hacking the format.  The only 
other format I had trouble with at first was for CoCo Max 3.  If I can 
still recall without glancing at my CM3 source, the compression uses bit 
flags to peek at the previous line or to repeat the last color, or to use a 
new color, etc.  It's not a bad alg.

I think I called Rick once about .NIB and wrote him once or twice.  It's 
been years.  Someone did send me the .SQS format during this time I was 
trying to view the CFDM disk pictures.  Occasionally, I think there was a 
.SQS file, or maybe that was the Fractal generator that spit them out, that 
came on one of the CFDM issues.