1 MB image for VIC-20

From: Ruud Baltissen (Ruud.Baltissen_at_abp.nl)
Date: 2001-02-15 13:06:37

Hallo Marko,

I thouhgt it was less confusion answering this part sepperatly.

> I've been looking at Pasi Ojala's PuCrunch, since a couple of local guys
> suggested an idea of making an all-games-in-one cartridge for the VIC-20.
> The most feasible way is to compress all games into a 1-megabyte image,
> and to write a decompressor that extracts a game from the huge ROM to a
> 32k RAM on the cartridge.  Using a 700 MHz Pentium III, the compression
> task takes a bit under 30 seconds (I tried it yesterday).

Some questions purely out of curiousity:
Where is the compression good for? In general you gain about 50%.
If a P700 needs 30 seconds to compress, how much time does the VIC20 need to
decompress it, even it is a part?
Is there more info available, SW, HW, maybe site?

Groetjes, Ruud

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