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Knight Rider
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 116 |
If it were 1987 again....
I was watching Robin's video https://youtu.be/yVtKKb3wkYc regarding cracking from an original cassette. And it stirred a little interest in me again. To be honest I can't even remember how now but I cracked Wizball from original cassette using a Trilogic Expert (2nd version with botched ESM daughter board) and very likely V2.9 of the monitor software.
I did this again now on real hardware (as I wasn't having much luck with WinVICE 3.7), just for laughs and to try to stir up memories of way back then. Defeating Freeload now was much easier for me than back then.
I used the following packers:
MCC Compressor
then
Card Cruncher V4 (no idea who lent me this cartridge, but probably Tork&Torky)
(usual one was Matcham Time Cruncher V3.1 or a hacked version which ended up becoming Time Cruncher V3.1)
I ended up with 182 blocks incl. intro in Wizball
So it leads me to the next question, back in the day (for me) the best cracks had the smallest disk block size.
What packers did you use then on a real C64 in 1987, and what would you use now on real hardware (a. released upto 1987 and then anytime). What block size can you achieve ?
Exomizer V3.02 gives 144 blocks when no additional parameters are given.
TRIAD Wizball + is 166 with intro
Krejzi Packer $005E-$FFFF + Matcham Time Cruncher V3.1 gives 161 blocks
MCC Compressor + Matcham Time Cruncher V3.1 gives 165 blocks
Beast-Link/64k + Byte Boiler 256k V1.0 gives 148 blocks
Byte-Buster V4.1 + Byte Boiler 256k V1.0 gives 148 blocks |
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 346 |
funny you mention tork & torky, were they uk folks ? reason I ask I remember having 2 things from them , a compunet sending program and a sampler packer program IRC.
as for expert, I liked how it dealt with $0400 etc vs action replay.. and long before that how it packed games vs rivals.
not a fan of how the expert is in vice tbh.. which i find a shame, AR6 etc is far nicer / easier
I did upload the Mad mekon version of the expert software years ago. screen blanking in defreezing etc. |
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Knight Rider
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 116 |
Tork&Torky are from the UK. I visited them a few times in Greater Manchester. They cross assembled at the time from a C128 connected by cable to a C64. |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1382 |
Quoting Knight Rider
Beast-Link/64k + Byte Boiler 256k V1.0 gives 148 blocks
Byte-Buster V4.1 + Byte Boiler 256k V1.0 gives 148 blocks
Wait, is that compressing the full 253 block original? or something that's been trimmed down a bit? Because those ratios are seriously impressive for native tools. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11149 |
Byteboiler was that good (remember: REU, that makes some things easier :)) |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1382 |
Ah, true - I missed the REU part somehow.
Still, very cool. |
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Knight Rider
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 116 |
The packers took 253 to 217 blocks and then the REU cruncher did the rest |
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Bacchus
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 154 |
First - I have done a Fairlight Tv video on tape cracking as well, and there will be another one that also shows the production of a tape transfer. Available on friday.
I have gone through multiple stages of RLE + Cruncher.
Back in the days, on the native platform, any RLE + CruelCrunch was second to none. Easily 8 hours of crunch time but still the best result.
I then moved to EBC + DarkSqueezer 4 (for the REU support)
Last was the Skyflash range of crunchers - The AB Crunch and those.
Then I moved to PC and used Exomizer.
/Bacchus |
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Martin Piper
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 646 |
Currently the smallest I can compress a working Wizball to is 147 blocks. 37527 prg file bytes |
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Knight Rider
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 116 |
Quote: Currently the smallest I can compress a working Wizball to is 147 blocks. 37527 prg file bytes
Tell more.... which cruncher |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3138 |
Quote: Currently the smallest I can compress a working Wizball to is 147 blocks. 37527 prg file bytes
wizball_ripped.6389 │ 64258
dali 0.3.2 small
wizball_ripped.dali-s.prg │ 35314
In this case it's even better than Exo 3.11, but it's not a guarantee, always test both.
Why bothering using surpassed packers & crunchers =) |
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