Is this just possible for the 86, or can it be achieved on other calculators?

Well, it has a plugin for Assembly Studio 86 which will just produce 86 format. However, you can use the .exe file on any native z80 object code and it will work just fine. It's a bit more trouble, but as long as you stick to his format it should work fine, and it'll save you oodles of memory.

Unfortunately, lite86 does require enough free space to decompress to without losing the original compressed data. This means that it will be much harder to use on other calculators since they don't have free space like the 86, but not impossible. Compression on level sets, for example, should be quite feasible.

Random bugfixes... "Hmmm... I don't like this name for a variable, so I'll make it 'Bob' so that the program's size decreases."

Just kidding... :-)

Hey! Who said you could reveal my trade secrets to the masses like that?!?!!?

:P

Trade secrets? I thought EVERYONE did that...

Oops. ;-)

What? Waste a whole three bytes on a variable name when one will be enough? Are you a VB programmer or something :)

Ciaran

You're right... heck, @#$% the variables!!! Who needs 'em anyway?

What was TI thinking? I would rather refer to my variables by their hexadecimal address in memory!
3->x? No way! How about 3->14D5A ... now I like that. And that way your variables wouldn't always have the same boring names, whenever they moved around you'd get to go to the catalog and figure out their new names!

I could be wrong, but I'd think that the new version of Code Converter would be 2.1, not .21. If I'm wrong, then it'll be fixed way before many other people see it.

~Robert

Nope, it really is .21.

Ok, .21 doesn't seem like it'd be an update--maybe a first release, but not an update.

~Robert

Well considering the first release was v.1 and the second was v.2, I'd say v.21 makes sense :-)

Uh... what's a 'casbah'? :-\

An African fortress.
More important, though, is the song "Rock the Casbah," which was the subject of a classic Simpsons where Marge and Homer fly around town naked in a hot air balloon.

--BlueCalx

That was a pretty funny episode.

~Robert

It will compile under Linux, but _stricmp() must be changed to strcasecmp(). The following command will work:

gcc -x c -D_stricmp=strcasecmp LITE86.C -olite86

awesome, thanks for the info dave =) I lub Linux ;)

Now on another note, I really wouldn't classify this as a windows utility. Only the DLL is. Speaking of the DLL, how do you make Lite86 compressed progs in Assembly Studio 86? Does it automatically compress them if the dll is present? Thanks.

-'FuZeD

Well actually the console version will not run except under Win32, so I wouldn't want people to think it would run on anything else. Besides, most people are going to use the DLL because Assembly Studio is very popular. Simply go into your "Tools > Options..." menu and click the "Assembly" tab. Select the lite86 plugin from the list and it will always use that to output programs. Also note you can selectively do this by including the following line in your programs:

.plugin lite86

For either of these to work though the plugin must be unzipped to the Assembly Studio main directory (usually C:\Program Files\Assembly Studio 86). Hopefully it will overwrite the old one, if it does you will see "Lite86 II" in the options screen =)

Coolz.

-'FuZeD

everybody likes the Clash...and Will Smith can't use his own music; neutering every good beat he comes across

Uhh...can I ask where that comment came from?

~Robert

the Clash wrote the song "Rock the Casbah"; Will Smith sampled the beat from the song to his crappy Willennium song...

Watch your mouth Reno!! I like that song!

oh yes, that was a WITTY song indeed;

"And its the end of the millennium - excuse me, WILLennium" <-- I hope he got paid a lot of money for saying something as stupid as that