A86: Re: Lite86 compression
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A86: Re: Lite86 compression
Lite86 uses LZSS compression (I believe), whereas Pic2RLE uses RLE (run
length encoding). The RLE method used works off bytes, so even with fair
compression (50%), there is still much that can be compressed. It is really
only useful so that you can easily add a title pic and not worry about all
the dead space...it really doesn't touch the actual data, if you think about
it. As with all methods of compression, the best way is to try everything
and see what works best. But what will most likely save you the most room
is to use Pic2RLE on the picture, and use Lite86 on the whole program.
To disable the plugin, go to tools, options, and choose the plugin for .86p.
The plugin will create a self extracting program. Just remember that the
program cannot use writeback, nor can it be over ~7.5k. You can get the
full package with the compressor (for DOS) and decompressor (on calc--Z80)
on ticalc.org in the DOS utilities section.
> When I went to comepile a program with Assembly Studio 86 with a full
screen
> pic something came up that said compressed like 86% and i was also useing
> Pic2RLE first wich one is best? Second how do I disable this plug in? If
> lite86 is better where do i get the decompresion routine?
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