A86: Re: PIC Compression

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Subject: A86: Re: PIC Compression
From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 12:51:37 -0500
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I made a program, Pic2RLE, found at http://www.acz.org/programs/pic2rle.zip
and it include the source code.  The decompression is only for asm, of
course, not basic, but I'm assuming that's what you want :)  I think that
Macross decided not to do the project for a while.  Check their site at
http://www.calc.org/macross/
Though I have no idea how they expect to have a full rpg with cutscenes in
25k.  FF1 for the NES used a 2 mbit (256k) cart, and that was 6502...

>
> I was wondering if it would be possible to make a program that compressed
> and uncompressed PICs, so that way you could have more on your calc and
> they wouldn't take around 1K each...Anyone have any ideas how I could do
> this??  Also, what ever happened to the FF7 demo on the 85?  It had
> cutscenes and everything in it...It is supposed to be released next year
> at Christmas, but I stopped hearing things about it? Anyone heard
> anything???

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