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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1408 |
Packer/decruncher for under IO?
So, what's the current rec for tools that let you load stuff that will crunch down to less than 51199 bytes, but decompresses to the entire area from from (ooh, for example) $0801 to $e1e0? I thought pucrunch took care of that, but either I'm mistaken or I don't know what flags to use.
(why yes, I do have an entry for Show Me Your (Vector) Balls that fits that criteria) |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
if you're picky the solution I see is an autostart loader, otherwise just leave a note it only works with AR, or a provided software speeder... |
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Bitbreaker
Registered: Oct 2002
Posts: 504 |
Quoting JackAsserSave and set $01 in the irq handler anyway, always unless you really need the cycles. One day 4h before deadline you'll get the brilliant idea to load the next part while you irq is running => boom!
Apparently there is another big mistake happening before that: A release is finished in time, and thus one never runs into that kind of trouble 8-)
@ChristopherJam:
Adding an autostarting loader would be best practice i'd say. When i was releasing Ächzzeit to be loaded with cart only, there was some decent whining going on :-) |
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 255 |
At least it was decent. Nothing bugs me more than mediocre whining. |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1408 |
Damn that mediocre whining ;)
OK, I'll patch in the Effluvium loader. It's not the fastest in the world, but it's easy to bash into shape, and it's one less tool to learn for now.
I really should play with Krill's at some point.. |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1408 |
FWIW I ended up writing my own decruncher with byte aligned records for speed, and a simple decoder that fits easily into zero page. Not quite as high a compression ratio as pucrunch, but a better fit for purpose.
(I wanted the destination to be from $0200 to end of ram, but the data from around the $5000 mark on is pretty incompressible, so that had to be verbatim. All in all, time to roll my own) |
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