xxl Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 14 hours ago, CharlieChaplin said: a type-in listing in german Atari magazine (afair, the listing was also by TAT) maybe you know in which number this decompressor listing is? or link to scans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilheim Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 On 1/29/2021 at 8:55 AM, xxl said: 7. Gorf (CART) - what is this compression method? 8. Hardball - verification Not sure at all. Reading the code, I would say it uses a dictionary. Maybe a lz77 kind-of implementation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 3 hours ago, xxl said: maybe you know in which number this decompressor listing is? or link to scans? (german) Atari magazin 1/1989 (january+february 1989, pages 75 and 76) or Lazy Fingers diskette 198901A.ATR, the listings are named Packer.BAS and Entpack.BAS (also available in LST format). LF8901_Disk_A.zip AM8901_Listing.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Looks like my memory was wrong. The packer and depacker in Atari magazin was from C.Ballhause, not TAT. But attached you will find the TAT packer and depacker which was most-likely used for Oxygene (on the image TATtool2.ATR, filenames Packer4.TUR and Entpack.COM). Find also attached the packer and depacker from HCA (Home Computer Aktiv), issue 6/1988. The type-in listing HOMPAK.BAS creates the ML-file HOMEPACK.COM which can be used to pack files, to depack files you must use the file Unpack.LST). TATTOOL2.zip HCA_1988.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Last not least, here is the Powerpacker and Packer+Linker by T.Karwoth, used for Megablast and other programs. The disk also contains several other packers and archivers (e.g. Superpacker by Bewesoft, F[ast]-Pack by SRU, Dj-Packer, Arc+Unarc by B.Puff, etc.). PACKER1.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggn Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 If we're going to mention Infocom's adventures, might as well add Level 9's as well. There's an interpreter for the games here and a disassembler for the game which includes the depacker. Nothing too complex, they seem to be stuffing 8 bytes into 5 by simply keeping 5 bits off each character (so it should be 24 letters and the rest should be spaces and punctuation). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Strip poker uses RLE with some "encryption" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 49 minutes ago, devwebcl said: Strip poker uses RLE with some "encryption" Interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cRc_atari Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 (edited) Vicky was also compressed. And all games from Sonix: Master Head Tactic Deimos Humanoid Inside ? Edited February 4, 2021 by cRc_atari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxl Posted February 4, 2021 Author Share Posted February 4, 2021 cRc_atari: see my post #19 Strip Poker added (in-game images only, title images are not packed) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 (edited) IIRC disc version of Strip Poker doesn't use any compression just some encryption (the pics aren't fullscreen so the file sizes are smaller), maybe tape version uses it. Every ASF game - Miecze Valdgira & Kult - something like RLE (probably Cruncher 4.64 by Magnus), the latter games - Imploding & RLE (Cruncher 5.0 by Magnus). Also some latter Avalon games use Cruncher 5.0 and even Code3 Cruncher (2.2 or 3.0 - the last one usues also some Shanon-Fano compression, 2.2 IIRC like Cruncher 5.0). Edited February 4, 2021 by miker update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxl Posted February 4, 2021 Author Share Posted February 4, 2021 2 hours ago, miker said: Strip Poker doesn't use any compression I think you're right, unencoded and encoded image files on disc are the same length - encoded even several bytes longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Probably color-data. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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