| From: | Olaf Barthel |
| Date: | 06 Aug 2000 at 09:35:08 |
| Subject: | Re: iffparse.library |
On Aug 03 Lee (Lee Procter) wrote:
> >From: Mark Edward Reed <alberonn@pacifier.com>
> >Reply-To: amiga-c@egroups.com
> >To: amiga-c@egroups.com
> >Subject: [amiga-c] Re: iffparse.library
> >Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 11:53:40 -0700
> >
> >
> >The 2.1 CD is probally gonna be better due to the fact that the RKRMs are
> >on there. (If you don't have those already.) I gave my copy of 1.2 to the
> >user who got me the 2.1 CD for work I did on his A1200. (I did copy the
> >easter egg off of the older CD though.)
> >
>
> Strange. My copy of 1.2 has all RKRM`s on. And All NDK`s bar 3.5.
> It might be cos it was updated by Amiga Technologies after gateway buyout.
> Not sure though. Maybe they just didnt update version number? (Ala
> Commodore)
The AmigaGuide format RKMs were in fact updated for the 2.1 developer CD,
but probably not in the manner you might expect. As a matter of fact, the
original AmigaGuide text came from a CD-ROM produced by Commodore's CATS
technical support group, the so-called 'CATS CD 2.0', which became available
around 1992. It was filled with miscellaneous developer material, including
the RKM text, developer kits for the CDTV, DevCon disks, etc. Now the problem
with the AmigaGuide RKM text is that it was manually converted from the
original RKM manuscripts and that it was written for the original AmigaGuide
viewer (the AmigaGuide viewer that started shipping with Workbench 3.0
features a different parser). That means that the text is full of bugs which
prevent it from being read with the current AmigaGuide. Links don't work,
pages remain empty, and even some of the ASCII illustration don't come out
properly. For publication on the 2.1 developer CD I specially wrote a syntax
checker for the AmigaGuide files to get all the bugs ironed out, I fixed the
ASCII illustrations and I eventually even wrote a conversion program for
creating HTML pages from AmigaGuide input. None of this stuff is on the 1.2
developer CD.