Re: TALK: Mac Gifscii.. help!

Bob Allison (bob...@gagme.wwa.com) wrote:
: Andrew Burns <p91...@cplab.ph.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
: >In article <2stch0$m8...@bigfoot.wustl.edu>, elgin@biodec (Ben Elgin (BAHAMUT)) writes:
: >|> 
: >|> I recently dowlaoded Gifscii verion 2.2 for macintosh and found it to be 
: >|> completely unusable. Not only is it obviously a rough port-over from a PC 
: >|> or Unix platform (as it has no mac interface), but more importantly, it 
: >|> crashes every time i try to open a Gif file! I am attempting to run it on 
: >|> a Mac Centris 610 (that's the one with a 68040 processor and no FPU) with 
: >|> system 7.1, 8 megs of ram, and a 14 inch monitor.
: >
: >I had ther same problem trying to run it on a Mac Classic (68000 processor, 4M
: >ram system 7.0.1).   However I did have it working on an LCIII (68030, 4M, system
: >7.1).

:    I just wanted to say that while some folks have had trouble with it, 
: others have not had trouble.  I've made several nice conversions which I 
: have posted here.

:    We will probably have to wait for future versions to have a Mac 
: interface, flexible controls, and other goodies.  But remember, GIF -> 
: ASCII conventers are very low on the totem pole.  A programmer would not 
: receivee any monetary reward for doing lots of work on a convorter.  

:    THeir only reword is the feedback they get from the users.  If you 
: would like to see some fancy upgrades of Gifscii (and other converters), you 
: should tell the authors that they are appreciated, and encourage them to 
: continue.

ok, just to clarify my original post, I certainly have no intention of 
insulting or ignoring the time and effort that the author of Gifscii must 
have put into his program. However, my problem remains that I have 
nothing _to_ appreciate since I still can't get it to run on my Mac. I 
suppose it's probably just some small bug resulting from the program 
being written on a different system configuration, and I'll just have to 
wait for an update.
Out of curiousity, though, you did say that you had success using Mac 
Gifscii.. what system configuration was that on? It seems rather odd that 
it's been reported to run on a 68030 system, but not a 68000 or 68040, 
but such is life. Who can fathom the mysteries of system 
incompatibilities? not myself..  :)

- Bahamut...

(gee, if i keep posting here i may need to make one of those ascii 
sigs...  i'll work on it)

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