Posted By
Harry Potter
on 2024-07-20
17:37:46
|  Pursue PrintTok2?
I am discouraged with the support for PrintTok1. For those who don't know, PrintTok1 is a code module for cc65 that prints out strings compressed using tokenization and RLE of spaces. You can find it at https://sourceforge.net/projects/cc65extra/files/ui/. Version 006 supports up to 64 one-byte tokens and 128 two-byte tokens, and 007 128 one-byte tokens and 128 two-byte tokens with the cost that capital letters have to be redefined. Currently, it is limited in that it doesn't support literals compression or manual compression.  I've been working on PrintTok2 which is to fix those flaws, but as I said, I was discouraged with PrintTok1's lack of use. I'm wondering if I should continue producing PrintTok2.
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Posted By
zzarko
on 2024-07-21
15:31:38
| Re: Pursue PrintTok2?
I have made tools and programs where I am the sole user, IMHO nothing wrong with that  As long as it is fun to you, why not?
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Posted By
Harry Potter
on 2024-07-21
18:52:52
| Re: Pursue PrintTok2?
Well...it is fun to me, but I am an egotist and want to serve and people to appreciate my works. PrintTok1 and 2 would be useful for text adventures. PrintTok1 would also be useful for another project on which I'm working that involves a lot of text. The latter would need an earlier version of PrintTok1, as it involves needing updating at any time and can't really redefine the keys as needed by the last version of PrintTok1. PrintTok2 would require all strings to be compressed in one sweep and wouldn't work well with on-the-fly updates as needed by the project. Thank you for your opinion.
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Posted By
gerliczer
on 2024-07-22
03:34:01
| Re: Pursue PrintTok2?
but I ... want ... people to appreciate my works
Then you better start doing things people are interested in. This tinkering away with a CC65 library function for a text adventure engine never to be finished piques the interest of none except you. And for good reasons.
Life is a hard thing to live...
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Posted By
Harry Potter
on 2024-07-22
08:18:15
| Re: Pursue PrintTok2?
I think AdvSkel65/Vic65 is working well enough to use if not finished. Just try them out.
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Posted By
Harry Potter
on 2024-07-22
08:21:09
| Re: Pursue PrintTok2?
BTW, would the use of 59k of extra Hannes RAM pique people's interest? I have a library for cc65 called MemBankP4 that makes use of two banks of Hannes RAM including the main bank and parts of the Plus4's Low memory for code and data.
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2024-07-22
13:36:28
| Re: Pursue PrintTok2?
Since your library is written in C, I would say no. We have talked about this numerous times: very few people are actually developing anything for the Plus/4, and (AFAIK) no one is developing in C.
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