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- CHRYSEIS CRUNCHER V0.9
- ======================
- pre-release 1. January 1994.
-
- Well, we (and many other groups on the scene) had problems with their
- one file demos for the A1200. Where does this problem come from ?
-
- A1200 demos can work with 2Mb chip RAM, the disk drive is still
- 880 Kb, so you need to crunch. No problem just here, but if your demo is
- almost 2Mb and reduce to about 1Mb when crunched, you need, with most
- packers : 1 + 2 = 3Mb memory. There's just one old cruncher around wich allows
- you to decrunch while loading : titanic cruncher.
-
- TITANIC is OLD, TITANIC is SLOOOOOOW (almost 30 ' to crunch a 1.7 Mb
- demo on my A3000), TITANIC is INEFFICIENT.
-
- So here is the CHRYSEIS cruncher :
-
- CHRYSEIS is NEW, CHRYSEIS is DAMN FAST, CHRYSEIS is THE MOST EFFICIENT,
- CHRYSEIS DECRUNCHS WHILE LOADING !
-
- The idea was to take the titanic's approach to load module, and the
- crunching algorithms from powerpacker. The result is there !
-
- Technical info :
-
- The one file produced with Chryseis cruncher is an overlay supervisor
- with one hunk of data wich it is decompressing hunk by hunk.
-
- The crunching algorithm is a lempel-ziv like (size-offset encoding)
- with variable sized size-and-offset information, but instead of coding
- string repetitions, it's coding byte repetitions (it's just like byterun-1
- but with extra offset information).
-
- -------======== THIS PRODUCT IS *NOT* FREEWARE ========-------
- WHY ?
- Because it costed me lots of money to attend "the party '93" in Denmark
- Because it costs me lots of time debugging such a product
- Because I do not have enough money to be that active on the scene
-
- WHY YOU ?
- If you win a big prize at a big party because your product was crunched
- just in time before the deadline, then, without me, you couldn't
- have won, so ... just give me a little part of this price ...
-
- If you're coding a huge game for a commercial company, you'll gain lots
- of time with this cruncher ... "time is money", so give me this money.
-
- HOW MUCH ?
- Wathever you like, but don't send coins ;-) and don't send non-european
- money (except US$ and CAN$) as I wouldn't be able to change this !
- Especially, don't send national bank's checks, use EuroChecks instead.
- ___________________
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-
- The adresses :
-
- contact: LazyCoder on IRC (channel #Amiga)
-
- or: BP 7
- 1080 GANSHOREN
- BRUSSELS
- BELGIUM
-
- Who am I :
-
- The Lazy Coder is, with Mad Martigan, member of CHRYSEIS in the 'tools coders'
- section.
- His job in the group, as CHRYSEIS is mostly a demo group, is to ensure that
- code is compatible with almost the whole range of Amiga computers.
- He soon will be graduated as bachelor in computer science. And so, he is
- looking for a job in the industry (as expert in compression methods, for
- instance)
-