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Pitcher
Registered: Aug 2006
Posts: 61 |
What Packers and Crunchers?
Hi, after recently finding out my old c64 stuff i decided to have a mess, in the older days i used to use sledgehammer and cruel cruncher, are these still the best now? and whats the best versions?, thanks, james |
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1085 |
dont forget the cruncher ab (predecessor of byte boiler), able to pack 115 blocks (or so) very well and very quickly w/o a reu. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
lol, well you could go watch tv, or go out or anything instead of waiting hours and hours :) |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11352 |
...and then you come back and your mother tells you "oh btw your computer was still on, i have turned it off!".
ARGL |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
Always disconnect the power led internally! Then turn TV off and everything looks quiet and innocent. :D |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11352 |
yes that's what i learned to do then aswell :) |
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Tao
Registered: Aug 2002
Posts: 115 |
I managed to teach mom, dad, and my brothers how a cruncher screen looked like when blanked. It was so successful that I created a "fakecruncher" that I loaded and ran each time I didn't want to them to turn off the computer when coding something... |
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Graham
Account closed
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 990 |
My C64 cruncher history:
Super Packer -> Timecruncher -> Cruelcruncher -> The Cruncher AB -> Byte Boiler
Btw, before crunching a program it's usually a good idea to use an RLE-based packer before. This will speed up decrunching (since the more complicated crunching routines have less to decrunch) and often even makes the end-result smaller because the dictionary window gets virtually bigger. |
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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 621 |
I might be uploading a few more utilities (Not all crunchers of course), as soon as I find anything to contribute to CSDB
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WVL
Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 896 |
btw, whenever I have to crunch the first file of a demo, or something else, I always use PuCrunch while developing.. PuCrunch is just so much faster than Exomizer.. (Sometimes I use Exomizer when I'm 100% done). |
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Graham
Account closed
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 990 |
PUCrunch has far too slow decrunching. |
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