Re: A86: Compression Program
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Re: A86: Compression Program
upon completion of SimCommunity 2000, Lite86 is my next project. Because
there is no (sqrt)FINDVAR routine or the like (it would end up in an
infinite loop anyway...). I currently have a program which compresses
any .86P ASM file into a self-decompressing .86P ASM file.
Unfortunately, if it uses string writeback to store information, it
won't work :( games like sqrxz, unfortunately, use this. please use the
hidden vars as Pat suggested.
TGaArdvark wrote:
>
> > I was thinking it would be very cool to have a compression system like
> > double space and pklite and pkzip for the 86.
>
> Theoretically, it might be possible to, like DoubleSpace, compress
> the entire user RAM and have an interrupt to decompress variables
> as they are accessed. The VAT and the settings and RAM 1 etc.
> would remain intact, but all vat entries would point to the start of
> user mem. When a user variable is accessed, the variable
> is decpmpressed to the start of RAM 1. Ideas anyone? Ruminate.
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