I was bored... So I wrote a small program to let you view on the empeg display the boot logos and animations from riocar.org. Saves wear and tear on your flash anyway

Is there already a program to do this? Because I couldn't find one...

- Trevor

Cool. Make sure to put that in the downloads section of RioCar.org.

So how does it work? The attachment is a .TXT file. Sounds like an interesting tool and I'm looking forward to trying it. Thanks for contributing!

I think that it's not really a TXT file. I think he had to name it TXT to get the BBS to swallow it, or the BBS automatically added ".txt" to a file without an extension. It's probably a linux binary.

Many browsers will interpret a text file oddly at download time, inserting carriage returns in bad places if the file is a binary file. So I'm not sure if it'll run properly from the posted file, I haven't tried it.

Best to zip or tar any binary files before posting them on the web.

Cant seem to access that attached file here either.

He didn't name it .txt
The BBS software (or the web server more precisely) defaults to document type text/plain for files that do not have a filenameextension. And IE thinks that a text/plain file should be named X.txt, even when the webserver says it should be named X (without .txt).
But letting the naming problem aside, there still is the problem that some browsers (IE being the most prominent one) don't save text/plain files to disc as provided by the webserver but try to change its document encoding to the local encoding. In this case, IE replaces all newline characters by CR/LF combinations.

Workaround 1: Upload them with a .bin extension
Workaround 2: Download them with netscape or wget or links or any other UNIX friendly browser/downloader or with flashget/getright or similar tools.
Fix: Let the webserver default to application/octet-stream

cu,
sven

Here is the file as a (hopefully working) attachment.

Edit: The attachment/download works, at least for me. Haven't tried wether it is executable and working yet though.

Sorry about that. Smu's link does work and the file you get is identical so download that

It's on my webpage here as well.

- Trevor