Subj : FMail 2.3.0.0 public beta release
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Stephen Walsh
Date : Sat Mar 23 2024 10:36 am


Hello Wilfred!

21 Mar 24 08:10, you wrote to me:

 WV>>> Not really. ;-) I think there are more important things on the
 WV>>> todo list.

 SW>> That's understandable, I doubt you'd have a huge M68K user
 SW>> base... Mostly a count of 1... #-)

 WV> You are not using it! So 0. ;-)

Yes. The use case is way out west on a deserted road looking at the ground. &-)
Plus see latter in this message.

 SW>> I just looked through what andrew did to add M68K support in
 SW>> Talisman BBS and it's not just a few lines of code...

 WV> Making the pkt code endianness agnostic isn't a big task. My pktviewer
 WV> code does it. I wrote it decades ago, so it would compile on both the
 WV> Amiga and PC. ;-)

Do you want me to test it? Link to the code?

 WV> But doing so for the three supported messagebases (msg, hudson, jam),
 WV> is a huge pain in the ass, because the code for these is all over the
 WV> place.

It's a chicken & egg issue..

Magicka supports JAM but is no longer supported.
Talisman only supports squish, but is still supported!

Both compile and work on M68K Linux!



Stephen


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