[cc65] Idea for CC65 programmers

  Anybody on this list use CC65 for Windows PC?  IE target platform is PC?

I think a bunch of people on the list are users of "vintage" 8bit computers.

I'm working on a web browser for the Apple II.  Someone else got uIP
to work.  I can view text, click links, etc.

To view JPG or GIF, the Apple II CPU would take a few minutes to
convert the graphic for display on the low resolution BW screen.
Minutes aren't fun to wait while browsing the internet.

So I think it would be neat to set up a PC (on the net... let's call
it serverPC.com ) to do this:


1)apple II web browser encounters IMG SRC = GRAPHIC.JPG  tag
2)it says on net "serverPC.com, I want www.webpage.com/GRAPHIC.JPG
converted to BW, resolution: 40X40, format: appleII"
3)the serverPC goes and downloads that graphic, converts it properly,
and then serves it to the apple II web browser.


I don't know enough about TCP/IP to know what kind of commands can be
sent/received, IE how does serverPC tell the web browser when it is
done with the conversion.

Anyway...  this could work with any "vintage" computer.  Make the
graphics conversion code "pluggable" so you could put in Atari, C64,
Apple II conversion.  Then all of us old computer users could have a
"graphical web browser", with a powerful PC on the net doing all the
graphics conversion

Rich
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