SECTIONALITY: Segmented Code for the X16

ZeroByte · Post by **ZeroByte** » Fri Apr 23, 2021 7:13 pm

I booted up DOSBox and installed Compushow just so I could get the image to show with original text. I made an animated GIF out of it so browsers will show the text - no modern tools seem to support the feature.

Fnord42 · Post by **Fnord42** » Fri Apr 23, 2021 9:35 pm

I think we are missing the true elephant in the room here. What we should really worry about are people/websites that call short video files "GIF" when they are in fact something else (like MP4 for example). That is just wrong, and they deserve bad things happening to them.

Scott Robison · Post by **Scott Robison** » Fri Apr 23, 2021 10:46 pm

1 hour ago, Fnord42 said:

I think we are missing the true elephant in the room here. What we should really worry about are people/websites that call short video files "GIF" when they are in fact something else (like MP4 for example). That is just wrong, and they deserve bad things happening to them.

That's how I used to feel when people would refer to ROM game console cartridges as tapes.

desertfish · Post by **desertfish** » Fri Apr 23, 2021 11:24 pm

Here's my reply that I wrote under Matt's video:

Because “gif” is just a regular word in Dutch (meaning: poison), I cannot pronounce it any other than that word /χɪf/. Definitely not “Jiff” ?

Scott Robison · Post by **Scott Robison** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 12:13 am

38 minutes ago, desertfish said:

Because “gif” is just a regular word in Dutch (meaning: poison), I cannot pronounce it any other than that word /χɪf/. Definitely not “Jiff” ?

Pronunciation is definitely going to vary depending on one's native language.

I recall a tagline I used to see regularly on BBS message boards and relay networks: "Choosy perverts choose GIF" (which works because of a series of commercials in the US [at least] that used the tagline "Choosy Moms Choose Jif", which they completely botched recently in a promotion with giphy). ?

It's interesting (not surprising) that we were so fond of GIF files at the time as being such high quality when there are so much better solutions available today. Progress marches on.

BruceMcF · Post by **BruceMcF** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 4:11 am

3 hours ago, Scott Robison said:

Pronunciation is definitely going to vary depending on one's native language.

Quite. Being a native English speaker, I pronounce it "Gif". Of course, being an old professor, since the "G" in the acronym stands for "Graphic", I am also tempted to pronounce it "Gif".

However, if it was spelled "GYF", I would pronounce it "Jife", similar to gyrate.

Not sure what the native language of the inventor of the format was ... perhaps it was z80 assembly language.

kelli217 · Post by **kelli217** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:24 am

Some people think it's pronounced GIF, but other people think it's pronounced GIF.

SlithyMatt · Post by **SlithyMatt** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 2:12 pm

9 hours ago, BruceMcF said:

perhaps it was z80 assembly language.

As there is conspicuously no G register on the Z80, you may be on to something here...

Ed Minchau · Post by **Ed Minchau** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 3:26 pm

If he wanted it pronounced jif, he should have called it JIF. Like the brand of peanut butter. But he didn't so it isn't.

Scott Robison · Post by **Scott Robison** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 4:43 pm

And if they wanted it pronounced garaje, or jiraffe, or ... ?