Recoil – Retro Computer Image Library

recoil.sourceforge.net

38 points·CTOSian··7 comments

These seem to be the 'old style' Quicklook plugins, which aren't supported in the lastest macOS releases (I tried forcing it with the qlmanage CLI but didn't produce any output using that plugin).

The code seems to be on Sourceforge but the files I looked at were short and didn't seem to be able to handle 509 different things. So I think I looked in the wrong files. Or it's not in the repo?

I had a look at the repo in https://sourceforge.net/p/recoil/code/ci/master/tree/ - I think the meat of it is a giant file called 'recoil.fu' (22481 lines long)

[edit] it is written in the 'Fusion Language' https://github.com/fusionlanguage/fut (and not https://gaelduval.com/introducing-fusion-the-ultimate-progra... !) - there's a playground at http://fusion-lang.org/ . I'd never heard of it before but seems a bit like Haxe perhaps?

The language has been created by the main author of RECOIL, Piotr 'Fox' Fusik – an offshoot of Ć (Cito) perhaps? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28805825

Ugh, now I'm torn between wild urges to write a Raku backend for Fusion or port my C++ libraries to Fusion, neither of which is anything like a sensible project in the short term. (Possibly any term.)

>> Drag Xrecoil.usr to XnViewMP.

This instruction is unclear. Drag Xrecoil.usr to XnViewMP on "Applications"?

That would be fun to fuzz-test.

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