Update: this evening I created an AMB reader for PHP. This allows one to
host AMB books on a web server and read them with a browser, the
conversion being performed on the fly.
The FreeDOS help that I have earlier converted to AMB can now be read
on-line. Here's how it looks like:
http://ambook.sourceforge.net/samples/phpamb.php?fname=fdhelp.amb
A link to the above URL is also present on the main page of the AMB
project now (at http://ambook.sourceforge.net/ ).
Mateusz
On 05/12/2020 18:08, Mateusz Viste wrote:
Hello,
These past few days I was working on a new hobby project. It is called
AMB, and it is a simple hyperlink format that makes it possible to
create "books" that are easy to read even on very limited hardware.
The "books" can be viewed with a tool named AMB. It is only a few
kilobytes big and requires about 80K of available RAM.
As a demo, I converted the FreeDOS help today into an AMB book. This is
something that I will use as the help tool in the Svarog386 FreeDOS
distribution, but perhaps it could be an interesting alternative for
vanilla FreeDOS as well. The AMB reader, as well as the format
specification and the converted FreeDOS help file can all be downloaded
on the project's home page:
http://ambook.sourceforge.net
It is still a very much work-in-progress project, but perfectly
functional already. I will certainly add a few features during incoming
weeks (mouse support, some form of light compression, full-text search,
etc).
I'd like also to compile the RBIL into an AMB book in some near future.
Enjoy.
Mateusz
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