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

[Joel Ewy]

Bob Devries wrote:
> Joel,
> I unearthed my Amiga 2000, and on it's hard drive there is jpegshow V3.0 
> with sourse by Andrzej Kotanski. I had a quick look at it. I didn't see your 
> name in the readme. Is this the file you're looking for?
>
> If it is, I can email it and/or upload it to the maltedmedia ftp site.
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>   
Thanks, Bob.  That one isn't it, and I believe it may be available on
RTSI.com.  The version you have is what I used as a starting point to
add the clipboard support.  I don't think it's worth much more effort to
try and find the source for what I added.  Though it took me a while to
understand the code well enough to modify it, the modifications I did
are probably still in the "trivial" category.  It would be a good
exercise for me to try and re-create the work.

I still have my old MM/1 hard drives though.  I can't read an RBF
filesystem on them anymore, but I might play with a disk sector editor
and see if anything can be recovered from them.  Otherwise, I'll just
consider it lost.

Thanks for the effort though.

JCE
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
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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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