An optimal, byte-aligned, LZ+RLE hybrid encoder, designed to maximize decoding speed on NMOS 6502 and derived CPUs
An optimal, byte-aligned, LZ+RLE hybrid encoder, designed to maximize decoding speed on NMOS 6502 and derived CPUs
TSCrunch is an optimal, byte-aligned, LZ+RLE hybrid encoder, designed to maximize decoding speed on NMOS 6502 and derived CPUs, while achieving decent compression ratio (for a bytecruncher, that is).
TSCrunch was designed as the default asset cruncher for the upcoming game A Pig Quest, and, as such, it’s optimized for in-memory level compression, but as of version 1.0 it can also create Commodore 64 SFX executables for off-line prg crunching.
TSCrunch requires python 3.x with scipy library installed, or a windows x64 machine(A pre-compiled windows x64 command line executable is also provided). The memory decruncher requires Kick Assembler, but it should be quite easy to port it to your assembler of choice.
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