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- From: schuetz@fm11ap01.tu-graz.ac.at (Alexander Schuetz)
- Subject: About my cruncher again...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.151950.29073@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 15:19:50 GMT
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- >>>>Do some guys remember the (quite wellknown) DARKSQUEEZER? Yes? Good.
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- >>>Never heard of it before, and I am our user groups founder. Must have
- >>>been before my time.
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- >>Okay, but then you must have been off the scene or off anyone for a bloody
- >>long time. *EVERYBODY* knows Darksqueezer, it was released in 1988 and
- >>people still use it heavily for crunching their demos, programs, whatsoever.
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- >Programmers of demos and such are in the vast minority of C64 owners,
- >and also in the vast minority of people who read this group. I myself
- >was a heavy programmer of the C64 at one time, and I never heard of
- >DarkSqueezer, although I can guess that it's some sort of executable
- >file cruncher. But saying that EVERYBODY should know about it is just
- >plain wrong. The fact is that very few people know about crunchers.
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- All right. Well, all of a sudden, now you all know, I guess :)
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- >>>By requiring an REU, you have limited the audience for 'your' product.
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- >>I have not limited the audience. The computer memory is limiting ME!
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- >The number of people who own REU's is very small compared to the number
- >of people who own C64's. You *have* limited your audience.
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- Well, I guess I have limited it to everyone who is interested in a sophistica-
- ted Lempel/Ziv style cruncher with enourmous speed compared to all known
- existing ones. Must be VERY few indeed. :-)
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- >>there is little I can do, except to use two disk drives.
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- >Won't that be a little slow? No, make that *very* slow.
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- That's right, and actually I dont like the idea either.... just get a ram
- expansion, everyone! Look how much time its gonna save you all.
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- >Now that you have explained it, more people will know what you're talking
- >about.
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- Well I thought, all those experienced people had a lot of knowledge here
- ALREADY... :-)
-
- >Now for the question that Mike was trying to ask you: If this program
- >uses code that was created by someone else (DarkSqueezer), then how can
- >you call it your program and sell it?
-
- First, it *partially* uses *similar algorythm* to Darksqueezer. Second,
- the original Darksqueezer is complete Public Domain, so everyone had and
- has the right to look at the code, hasn't he? Considering my hard work
- of reverse engeneering and *immensely improving* the original algorithm,
- and considering that I'm obviuosly the one and only who did it, and
- considering how damn (I hate the word) poor I am, I think some donations
- are in order. Must I really argue about that one? I think I really don't
- have to.
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- Alex Schuetz (schuetz@fm11ap01.tu-graz.ac.at)
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