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- From: Pontus Berg <Pontus.Berg@p71.anet.canit.se>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 00:27:52 +0100
- Subject: Packers
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- In a message of 26 Mar 96 Jason wrote to me:
-
- >> Is this one available? Seems kewl!
-
- J> Not yet, Odie is still working on it! He had a V3 going and just as I
- J> was getting it ready to spread I found a bug! So Odie being Odie he's
- J> re-coding the thing and implementing an improved RLE tokenization to
- J> improve the output a bit!
-
- Seems like quite a few guys I know! :-)
-
- J> Re: My saying that IFFL was all RLE based:Well, our IFFL is based on
- J> DarkSqeezer 4.0 so it's not at all RLE here!
-
- J> I dunno, some people just *have* to show off (hehe! =-) I must admit
- J> that the only ones I've seen were runlength based. I don't really see a
- J> lot of stuff, mind!
-
- Well, actually ECA-linker from around 1988 was the last level PACKER I saw in
- use. From that time TimeCruncher regin started and the level CRUNCHERS took
- over! I actually got a very early copy of the TimeLevel and to try it I used the
- depacker as a test file! The only bad thing with this version was that it was
- one of those "save the destination with replace"... So then I could perform KEWL
- crunchs but was unable to depack them as I needed the depacker to depack the
- packed depacker! :-P
-
- >> "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!
-
- J> Does it support IRQ loading?! If so, I want *that*!
-
- BetaSkip? For sure does... Anyone with it I handy? Mine isn't! By the way, if
- you ever saw the original of PP Hammer, you'll see BetaSkips full potential!
-
- >> 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!
-
- J> Weeelll... I s'pose in your case thats understandable, but I still
- J> think a singlefiled game looks nicer than a multifile and the difference
- J> in length isn't all that major!
-
- Being a dedicated cracker, always competing well in the terms of lenth of the
- crack, it IS major if it gets two blocks longer! Seems stupid, but these are the
- terms to follow unless you decide to go your own way! I have chosen not to care
- about getting americans to make the games work on NTSC, which is a step aside
- from what is commonly expected so in a way I'm setting my own rules, but the
- length thing is something I won't surrender!
-
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- ... The C64 is my only religion!
- It's for real and can be proven and it's for sure divine!
- (Pontus Berg)
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