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Re: new ProDOS ports

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Date 2016-01-05 20:37 -0800
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Subject Re: new ProDOS ports
From qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com>

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> > > The European name for RadWarrior was Antirad, if that helps. :)
> > 
> > 4am just gave me a present, so I have it now.
> 
> As I say to my kids: Sharing is caring. :D

Radwarrior in two files is in Asimov /incoming.

> > > As for Airheart, I can help you identify the memory usage if needed.  Alternatively it might be possible to shove the game into slinky ram and replace the disk routines with much-smaller ram transfer routines.  Of course bank-switched AUX such as RamWorks is also a possibility but I have a RamFactor so my bias is blatant and obvious. ;)
> > 
> > I said 256k as a neat multiple.  As I showed in my write-up, the disk is really full, and all of it is read.  128k for game+16k for ProDOS writing is probably more accurate.
> 
> I'm willing to bet that it doesn't use compression, so there's probably a good chance at improving on that quite a bit.  Not that you have PKZip as an option but it goes down to 84k from 140k with that algorithm.  Exomizer or the LZ5 packer that Martin Haye uses might be good avenues.

The problem is to decompress the data somewhere in a non-destructive way (i.e. the compressed data can't be overwritten because it must be needed again later).

> There's always a way, especially when everyone else says there isn't. ;)

Yes, but it would require ripping apart the game to see what's used when.
Reclaiming 16kb is a big ask, and all that just to save the high scores.

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Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 13:12 -0800
  Re: new ProDOS ports sicklittlemonkey <nick.westgate@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 17:17 -0800
    Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 10:10 -0800
      Re: new ProDOS ports Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2015-11-18 21:04 +0100
        Re: new ProDOS ports Delfs <eeastman@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 03:18 -0800
          Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 09:45 -0800
            Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2015-12-13 07:57 -0800
              Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 08:48 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2016-01-01 19:47 +0100
                Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 15:07 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 20:29 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2016-01-04 09:13 +0100
                Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 06:59 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 08:00 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 09:21 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 20:12 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2016-01-05 21:12 +0000
                Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 20:37 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 21:00 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 22:58 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 22:54 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 07:31 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports "Michael 'AppleWin Debugger Dev'" <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 15:45 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 18:29 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 20:19 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2016-01-08 07:57 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2016-01-07 20:22 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2016-01-08 12:54 +0100
                Re: new ProDOS ports "Michael 'AppleWin Debugger Dev'" <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-08 23:30 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 10:37 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 11:21 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports Jerome Vernet <jeromevernet@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-14 22:30 +0100
                Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 19:52 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 08:14 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2016-01-06 06:09 +0100
                Re: new ProDOS ports gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2016-01-07 16:10 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2016-01-08 02:43 +0100
                Re: new ProDOS ports BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 23:05 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 13:07 -0800
                Re: new ProDOS ports Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2016-01-06 22:29 +0100
                Re: new ProDOS ports BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 14:06 -0800

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