Re: A92: Zip program for Ti-92
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Re: A92: Zip program for Ti-92
David Kühling wrote:
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> Frederic PAUL wrote:
>
> > I d'like to know if there is a zip program for Ti-92 and where (if it
> > exist). That would be useful to put more games and programs in the calculator.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Fred.
>
> I'm just writing one, which uses a combined Lempel-Ziv - Huffman algorithm. It
> will work in this way, that you could create an archive at your PC, and send it to
> your TI-92. The unpacker at the TI-92 will work like FBrowser, and will regard
> archives as directories. To run a program, it will be uncompressed to a temporary
> memory block, and executed by the core. If you have some infos about Huffman or
> Lempel-Ziv or any other suggestions, mail me! (I haven't any texts about Lempel
> Ziv or Huffman, so I had to develope my own algorithms)
>
> David Kühling
Will the algorithms be in a library or something, so that the packed
programs call it every time?
Huffman is still the best packer for one bitplane GFX (compared to that
LHA library or whatever), but this may be better... depends on how big
the library would be...?
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