Omnimaga
Calculator Community => Other Calculators => Topic started by: Iambian on April 08, 2010, 12:02:36 am
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I found this archive on my computer and someone on IRC wants it. So, here it is.
You MUST understand that the archives that are generated by this program are *not* compatible with Celtic III's version of PicArc, though a few modifications to the database can be made to make it compatible. Not sure how well that would work, but it might be something for someone to try.
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thank you :)
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nice I should put it in downloads section. I remember you talking about this on Omnimaga channel back in 2006-07. It might be useful to some ppl who don't have enough room for the app.
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What is it exactly?
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From the ReadME:
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>Forward
This is a program designed to allow its users to store Pic
(picture) files on a centralized database, allowing a single file
to be transmitted and the recall of picture files from that one
database file to any of the 10 Pic files available on the system
or right on the graph buffer display.
It was a small project that Geekboy wanted. I was almost hoping this bit of programming would be forgotten, but yeah. I guess it could be useful for those that don't want to be burdened by a huge app like Celtic III if you only wanted that feature.
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Oh, there was a readme file? My bad, I should have checked. But thanks for putting that there. I don't quite understand still but that's probably because it's almost one in the morning O.O I'll check it again tomorrow though, thanks.
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I probably didn't word it well.
What it does is allows you to store pic files into a file so you can recall them later.
Benefits: No fear of users overwriting pic files in case they want to use them, keep all your pic files in one place, and also supports a simple method of compression so if you don't use all the screen space, you can reclaim some of it in the form of a smaller size.
Disadvantages: You need the PicArc program to add/extract images, it takes time to get images out of the file, and one might mistake a database program for something else and really mess it up.
Two of those disadvantages are removed when you use Celtic III, but the first one becomes really exaggerated.
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I have been thinking about using something like this for a while in Illusiat 13, but I would have needed to be able to not have the prog to extract images. Also I wanted to keep Illusiat as pure basic as possible. (only 184 bytes of ASM used)
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Oh ok, that's cool. Thanks for explaining that, Iambian :)