[Coco] MM/1, jpegshow, cliplib, and Andrzej Kotanski?

[Bob Devries]

Joel, I googled for Andrzej Kotanski, and came up with this email address 
dated 2002: kotanski at thrisc.if.uj.edu.pl

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Ewy" <jcewy at swbell.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: [Coco] MM/1, jpegshow, cliplib, and Andrzej Kotanski?



> I've been discussing MM/1 stuff with Allen Huffman in private emails.

> Got me thinking about things, and I fired up my MM/1 to look for some

> files.  Andrzej Kotanski was responsible for jpegshow on the MM/1.  I

> added support for Joel Mathew Hegberg's cliplib, so you could copy the

> decoded JPEG images into the clipboard, then paste them into another

> utility that would save them as CLUT IFFs, which would load *much*

> faster than a JPEG would decode.  I'm sure I posted my modified version

> online somewhere, but I don't see it on RTSI.com.  It might still have

> been on Delphi, which has vanished into the aether.  It might have been

> on Lucy.ifi.unibas.ch <ftp://lucy.ifi.unibas.ch>, which is also gone.  I

> found the binary of my cliplib-enabled version of jpegshow, but not the

> source.  It was probably lost when my MM/1's hard drives bit it.

>

> 1.  Does anybody remember this software?  Is there still a copy anywhere?

> 2.  When I Googled for Kotanski's email address, I noticed that Bob

> Devries was asking the same question on this list in 03.  I found a

> plausible address (ends in .pl) in a web posting from 05.  Before I try

> it out and possibly annoy a complete stranger, did Bob or anybody else

> ever find a more recent address for him?

>

> If anyone's still interested in such things, I'll upload the modified

> jpegshow binary to RTSI.com.  I just wish I could find the source.

>

> In a related topic, I once had a verbal agreement with Joel Hegberg to

> maintain the cliplib source.  I haven't done anything to it yet, but I

> did find a floppy which, I believe, contains the code.  I might upload

> that as well.

>

> JCE

>

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