home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: mail2news.demon.co.uk!gate.demon.co.uk
- From: Jason <tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Packers
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 23:25:04 GMT
- Organization: Cosine Systems
- Message-ID: <9603252325.AA0013g@cosine.demon.co.uk>
- References: <428601695@cosine.demon.co.uk> <827731245@p71.f411.n201.z2.ftn>
- X-NNTP-Posting-Host: gate.demon.co.uk
- X-Comment-To: Pontus Berg <Pontus.Berg@p71.anet.canit.se>
- X-Newsreader: TIN [AMIGA 1.3 950726BETA PL0]
- X-Mail2News-Path: relay-1.mail.demon.net!gate.demon.co.uk
-
- Pontus Berg (Pontus.Berg@p71.anet.canit.se) wrote:
-
- Re: Cosine's TARDIS Packer:
- : Is this one available? Seems kewl!
-
- Not yet, Odie is still working on it! He had a V3 going and just as I was
- getting it ready to spread I found a bug! So Odie being Odie he's re-coding
- the thing and implementing an improved RLE tokenization to improve the output
- a bit!
-
- Re: My saying that IFFL was all RLE based:
- : Well, our IFFL is based on DarkSqeezer 4.0 so it's not at all RLE here!
-
- I dunno, some people just *have* to show off (hehe! =-)
- I must admit that the only ones I've seen were runlength based. I don't
- really see a lot of stuff, mind!
-
- : "All in one files" look kinda kewl, I admit. There is a pack available for
- : creating these if you want to. Markus Wiedestein (MWS) spread his BetaSkip,
- : which includes a levelcruncher and the tools to include loading pictures and
- : lots of other goodies!
-
- Does it support IRQ loading?! If so, I want *that*!
-
- : These one-filers all produces longer versions than the twofiled ones, as you
- : have to pad up them in order to get the autostart part of the loader working and
- : if I can't gain length it's pretty useless to me!
-
- Weeelll... I s'pose in your case thats understandable, but I still think
- a singlefiled game looks nicer than a multifile and the difference in length
- isn't all that major!
-
- Jason =-)
-