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TSCrunch   [2022]

Released by :
Atlantis [web]

Release Date :
27 February 2022

Type :
Other Platform C64 Tool

Website :
https://github.com/tonysavon/TSCrunch

User rating:**********  10/10 (10 votes)   See votestatistics

Credits :
Code .... Antonio Savona of RGCD
Test .... Bitbreaker of Nuance, Performers
  Dr. Science of Atlantis
  Honcho of Atlantis
  q0w of Atlantis, SNAQZ

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User Comment
Submitted by tonysavon on 21 March 2022
Version 1.2 now available

TSCrunch 1.2
User Comment
Submitted by tonysavon on 27 February 2022
Hi @wil, thanks for your comment and for giving it a go!
Optimality is related to a specific encoding schema. TSCrunch is a bytepacker, with 2byte RLE, 1-2byte LZ tokens and a 512 bytes search window. In this "space" it provides the optimal solution to the puzzle. Exomizer is s different beast, being a bit-cruncher.
User Comment
Submitted by Honcho on 27 February 2022
Brilliant Tony, a great little tool, and as you know, I've used earlier "beta" versions to great success for fast decrunching in some of my releases ;)
User Comment
Submitted by wil on 27 February 2022
Awesome work, but what does "optimal" mean in this context? As far as I understood the big advantage is the fast decrunching, but the packing efficiency is better with exomizer, correct?
User Comment
Submitted by tonysavon on 27 February 2022
TSCrunch is an optimal, byte-aligned, LZ+RLE hybrid encoder, designed to maximize decoding speed on NMOS 6502 and derived CPUs, while achieving decent compression ratio (for a bytecruncher, that is). It crunches as well as other popular bytecrunchers, while being considerably faster at decrunching.
TSCrunch was designed as the default asset cruncher for the upcoming game A Pig Quest, and, as such, it's optimized for in-memory level compression, but as of version 1.0 it can also create Commodore 64 SFX executables for off-line prg crunching.

Hopefully I'll release A Pig Quest soon, so here is the cruncher to make crackers' life easier :-).
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