SDFS::RISCOS.$.Coding.Projects.ResFinder.h.ResFinder
; ResFinder header file
; Rick, 2014/02/03
;
; Because random magic numbers are a pain in the ass
;
; we allocate 128 bytes of buffer space
BUFFERSIZE * 128
; offsets into the ReadArgs array
ARGPTR_PROGNAME * 4 ; array is: [ <ourname> <progname> <resvar> <useos> ... ]
ARGPTR_RESVAR * 8 ; +0 +4 +8 +12
ARGPTR_USEOS * 12
; value ReadArgs returns for parameter being present
ARG_ISSET * &7FFFFFFF
; flag if a resource variable is provided
CUSTOM_RESVAR * 1
NO_CUSTOM_RESVAR * 0
CUSTOM_RESVAR_NOPATH * 0
CUSTOM_RESVAR_ISPATH * 1
; OS_Byte stuff
OSB_RW_COUNTRY * 70
OSB_RW_KEYALPHA * 71
JUST_READ_COUNTRY * 127
JUST_READ_ALPHABET * 127
JUST_READ_KEYBOARD * 255
IS_DEFAULT * 0
IS_UK * 4 ; we revert to UK if keyboard read fails
IS_UTF8 * 111
; OS_File stuff
READ_CATALOGUE * 17 ; with no Path...
NOT_FOUND * 0 ; I resisted calling this FOUR_OH_FOUR ;-)
IS_A_DIRECTORY * 2
; OS_SetVarVal stuff
SET_STRING * 0
SET_NUMBER * 1
; This, and anything less, is a control character.
CTRLCHAR * 31
; Null terminator (to make it blatantly obvious!)
TERMINULL * 0
; Device detection stuff
PLATFORMCLASS * 8
HAS_A_HAL * 5
HALDEVTYPE_COMMS * 1024
HALDEVCOMMS_GPIO * 3
NO_MATCH * -1
; Device types
DEVICE_UNKNOWN * 0
DEVICE_MESOLITHIC * 1 ; see note below for why "Mesolithic" was chosen
DEVICE_RISCPC * 2
DEVICE_IYONIX * 3
DEVICE_HALCPUTYPE * 4 ; the ones the HAL can reply are CPUTYPE+4
;DEVICE_OMAP3 * 4
;DEVICE_OMAP4 * 5
;DEVICE_RPI * 6
; Why Mesolithic?
;
; The "Stone Age" is broken into three sections, namely:
;
; Paleolithic - Lower covers proto-human development in the Ice Age (ranging from ~2.5 million
; years ago) to around 300,000 years ago.
; Middle covers the period of around 300,000-50,000 years ago. This is the age of
; the Neanderthals.
; Upper covers the period of around 50,000-10,000 years ago. Sometime in this time
; frame humans (as we are now) arrived and took over the Earth. The truth is more
; likely that Neanderthals failed to adapt in time to the changing climate as the
; Ice Age drew to a close, so died out more naturally than by us slaying them, but
; given human history is basically an epic slaughterfest, either theory is viable.
;
; Mesolithic - In the warmer days after the Ice Age (around 10,000 to 6,000 years ago), this is
; the era of the Stone Age when humans were still primarily hunter-gatherers.
;
; Neolithic - From around 6,000-3,000 years ago, this is the period of the Stone Age where our
; species started to organise itself into agricultural based communities. Rather than
; killing wild animals, we raised animals. We grew crops, and we learned how to make
; pottery.
;
; [this was followed by the Bronze Age (also known as steampunk ;-) ) and then the Iron Age (aka
; "oh look, another war!").
;
;
; Now, with this history under our belt, the reasoning for the names is as follows:
;
; Paleolithic - the Beeb/6502 era.
;
; Mesolithic - the Archimedes era, including the RiscPC (etc) operating in a 2226 bit mode.
;
; Neolithic - the rise of the x86 PC; not strictly a part of the RISC OS timeline, but following
; the demise of Acorn and a lot of dumb infighting, it all went real quiet for a
; while.
;
; This, of course, implies that we are not yet in the Modern Era. This is correct.
;
; Bronze Age - This is the Iyonix. Not just because a company made "a new machine" because it has
; happened before post-Acorn (Mico, etc), but more importantly RISC OS was now fully
; free of the shackles of 26 bit PC+PSR mode that Acorn were damned reluctant to let
; go of. In other words, future ARMs *could* run RISC OS.
;
; Iron Age - WHERE WE ARE NOW.
; RISC OS itself is now an open source project (maybe not as open as RMS would like,
; but I can download and build my own so it is open enough for me). RISC OS has
; matured and is available on a selection of nice ARM boards, ranging from the pricey
; (Beagle, Panda) to the ridiculously cheap (Pi, Pi, Pi). We benefit from modern
; technologies (USB, SD cards, fast ethernet) while having ooodles of memory and
; big displays and processor speeds that are almost shamefully fast. When the RiscPC
; was released, you'd have been called crazy if you said you would pick up an 800MHz
; ARM (RPC=~35 at the start) with half a GIGABYTE of memory (RPC=~8-32MB; hell, most
; built-in harddiscs were smaller!) and it won't sweat at displays like 1280x1024 or
; even 1920x1080 (most people accepted 800x600 was a good size back then; which ever
; so slowly crawled to 1024x768). Oh, and that's with 16M colours throughout. The
; RiscPC couldn't do 1024x768@16M because it could only take up to 2MB VRAM. FullHD
; in RGBA needs 8MB which might have been as much as was fitted ENTIRELY.
;
; Modern Age? - This will come, but it relies upon the chip bakers. This will be the era when the
; ARM SoCs provide a way to autodetect what features are available and when the
; available features offer a generic compatible interface (for the most part). In
; this way, *one* RISC OS image will be able to run on different machines. You just
; download RISC OS, install it, and off you go.
;
; This isn't unrealistic. This is how the PC has worked ever since the days of the XT
; because back then it was the software that sold the machine and if you didn't run
; the software that people wanted (originally MS-DOS and then Windows in its various
; incarnations) you would be "incompatible" and you wouldn't sell. There were brief
; diversions (Hercules display, anybody?) but for the most part you can boot a twenty
; year old OS on a modern PC because the discovery process is the same. You may be
; missing features (possibly even keyboard now USB is ubiquitous - depends on how much
; the BIOS will assist) but it is possible.
; Compare and contrast this with current ARM SoCs where there are so many little
; differences that while the majority of RISC OS will run on any supported device, it
; needs a specific targeted version for each platform. Do we have a device discovery
; protocol? (No.) Can we rely upon at least a framebuffer for video? (Yes, but each
; one is different so this is more a No than a Yes.) Is there a serial port? (Maybe.)
; Where? (Um.... someplace.) How is memory arranged? (Umm...) What is the address of
; the USB driver? (I want a lollipop!) You booted from what? SD? eMMC? (I want my
; blankie!) How do you access the media you just booted from? (Mummmmeeeeeeee!!!!)
;
; The Modern Age is coming.
; Liken it to Climate Change.
; It WILL happen. We're just not sure when.
;
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