In article 
,
 jonnosan  wrote:

> On Nov 30, 6:13 pm, m...{at}deichjugend.de wrote:
> > I also do think that the program may get too complicated to be
> > universal at one point (expansions for Atari or Commodores?).
> 
> I think the basic architecture should be able to handle a lot of 
> different machines without becoming too complex to maintain- each 
> native file type gets it's own source file in a folder named after 
> the host machine, and that 1 file includes
> 1) whatever tests are necessary to determine if a file is of that type
> (e.g. by looking at file system meta data, or file size, load address,
> or headers)
> 2) a function that renders that native file into something useful
> (text, a listing, a png, etc).
[...]

I love seeing the other systems!

My favorite fallback--a hex dump:

http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmatthews/apple2.html#hd>
http://applecommander.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/applecommander/AppleCom
mander/src/com/webcodepro/applecommander/util/AppleUtil.java?revision=1.1
0&view=markup>

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