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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: ResEdit 2.1 for Amiga
- Message-ID: <C0F2Hn.86w@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <C0E0x1.7A1@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <C0E2oB.2E5@news.iastate.edu> <38338@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:12:58 GMT
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- In article <38338@cbmvax.commodore.com> kcd@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Dyke - Amiga Networking) writes:
- >In article <C0E2oB.2E5@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >>
- >> With all of this bashing of the internals of the Mac OS in advocacy, I have
- >>a question: why hasn't the equivelent of ResEdit 2.1 ever been written for the
- >>Amiga?
- >
- >Probably because such a utility would be utterly useless on the Amiga,
-
- Useless to someone with no imagination, perhaps. I, however, would like to
- be able to take Amiga executable files apart and replace any imbedded images,
- sounds, etc. If this is possible.
-
- > but of
- >course as usual you probably don't have a clue about how executables on the
- >Amiga actually work.
-
- A veiled hint that it isn't possible. I suspect that Amiga executable
- files, despite being based on "chunks", are not as well-organized and
- structured as Mac executable files. Meaning that there are no standardized
- methods of imbedding images, sounds, GUI structures, etc. in Amiga executable
- files.
-
- ---
- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
- "No, I just think that a computer grafted on top of another computer
- is a kludge. It has nothing to do with the AGA chipset." -- me
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