[A83] shell that runs compressed programs


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[A83] shell that runs compressed programs



The Pucrunch compressor gets really good compression on lots of games.  Mars 
partrol dropped 800 bytes, glasscars dropped 3.5k, galaxian 1.3k, dying eyes 
dropped 8.4k (!).  Anyone thought of making a shell that would yeild these 
gains?  The games could be stored in archive, and get decompressed to RAM.  
The shell could automaticly create appvars for games that need writeback 
capability.  Probably not practical for the regular 83 with its miniscule 
memory size.

More info on Pucrunch at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Dev/pucrunch/.  The 
compressor is at the bottom of the page.  Make sure you use the switches -d 
and -c0 to make it not generate c64 executables.

There's a Z80 decompressor made for the gameboy on that site, I've already 
hacked up a TASM compatible version, still unoptimized at 500+ bytes, but it 
works.

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