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Posted By
Harry Potter
on 2024-09-30
14:20:59
|  Re: Elite C64 Sources released
Hi! I'm working on PrintTok2, a utility for cc65 that compresses strings then prints them out for you. It is intended mainly for text adventures but can be used for anything that uses a lot of text. If you want, I can tell you the planned features. Now, I'm curious: does Elite compresses its strings? If so, how?
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Posted By
Litwr
on 2024-09-30
11:39:38
| Re: Elite C64 Sources released
What a shocking amount of work! As I know the BBC Micro standard disc image format is SSD. I use the next command line utility to work with such images - https://github.com/hoglet67/MMFS/tree/master/tools/mmb_utils
The DSD format is used for CP/M and other rare things IMHO.
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2024-09-25
08:44:04
| Re: Elite C64 Sources released
The BBC source has been out for a long time [...]
@LBM those are the BBC sources  The news is that Ian Bell just released the original C64 sources (plus some other systems).
Degauss, just Google something like "bbc dsd disk format reader" :-) Apparently there are some (I never tried them).
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Posted By
Degauss
on 2024-09-25
08:09:36
| Re: Elite C64 Sources released
Thats what i wanted to ask: How do i view these files?
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2024-09-25
08:07:07
| Re: Elite C64 Sources released
Interesting! The BBC source has been out for a long time, and that birthed Mark Moxon's flicker free versions, I wonder if the C64 source being released will lead to any more fixes...
BTW, the source files are on BBC disk images (DSD format), so anyone wanting to take a closer look will need some specialized software to open them.
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