Re: wanted: PC/MAC C programmers (for apple II project)

It looks like you guys know more about it than I do.

Well, for no other good reason it's how I make a living. ;-D I've
been writing web applications for seven years, and not the small
internet-startup variety. But I'm more than happy to help. It sounds
like a fun project. Now... where to host it? I could probably do
that but would want to limit access to avoid abuse (not of you guys,
but by folks not using it for apple // reasons if you get my drift)

I was thinking
of playing with uIP sources (they'll compile for PC/windows) and
trying to get it to work that way. I wonder if uIP has proxy server?

Well, maybe. But realistically it's easier to use off-the-shelf
software components like Tomcat which handle all the security,
configuration, logging, etc for you. Since you're wanting to proxy
images, might as well use server-class software to do it. If you want
to manage it with Apache or IIS later on you also have that as an
option.

The only thing I'd worry about is that people could send URLs to
anywhere and target it as something to abuse. So there has to be some
level of security to it to prevent or at least monitor that. At least
with something like tomcat you can block people or add password-level
security if you want to. Or make a free sign-up service so that you
can control the traffic better by restricting traffic to known/trusted
IP ranges. Just a thought.

If the software is "generic" enough, it could be used as a server of
graphics for other vintage computers with ethernet cards....

Generic is not a problem. But you're still on the hook for converting
the images to the alternate binary format on your own somehow. So
maybe there's a converter method for "HGR_BW" and one for
"DHGR_COLOR". Maybe you'd want one later on for "SHR" or for some
raster format for C64 for example. Define a lookup of these formats
to refer to the appropriate translator class and so on.

Of course, once you go towards 16-bit platforms you get closer to the
point where the computer can handle more of its own image translation,
and all you need to do is perhaps scale it down and reduce the palette
a little so that the overall file is smaller and easier to work with.

-B

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