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  • Sunset on Mars'Night all. I'll leave you with this stunning pic taken by the NASA Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit, on May 19th 2005, as the Sun sank below the ri…

    ... resize or apply some more compression to the image.
    JamesW JamesW May 2007 Chit chat
  • Interface 1 with 3.5" floppyHas this been done or can it be done? Using an interface 1 and a powered 3.5" floppy disk drive (with a modified cable) instead of a microdrive?

    ... think the M128 uses better compression and hence takes up less ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…

    ... /> Kraplock2 - 3 char alphabet, RLE compression (if previous byte is the ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat May 2007 Emulators
  • Legend of Avalon Soloution.HIya, I am looking for the complete solution for the Legend of Avalon by Hewson Consultants, its a bought time i completed it since ive had the game…

    ... I can get a decent compression to keep the file relatively ... a very handy guide on compression with Xvid and a program ...
    The Starglider The Starglider May 2007 Games
  • Legend of Avalon Soloution.HIya, I am looking for the complete solution for the Legend of Avalon by Hewson Consultants, its a bought time i completed it since ive had the game…

    ... a very handy guide on compression with Xvid and a program ...
    Daren Daren May 2007 Games
  • PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…

    ... probably very happy with the compression ratio even if you had ... be probably happy with the compression ratio, even if you have ...
    Kio Kio May 2007 Emulators
  • the lost years...hello what i am refering to in the title is the years 1993-1997 when the ZX spectrum was dormant.i know that WOS was set up in 1995,but i am guessin…

    ... the z80 format, which used compression.

    Multiloads were also ...
    NickH NickH May 2007 Games
  • Transfer to tape from PCHi all, A few years ago I had a program on the Amiga that would take a Spectrum game and save it out via the serial port to a cassette tape player. T…

    ... 't choose a too heavy compression.
    Pilsener Pilsener June 2007 Hardware
  • Transfer to tape from PCHi all, A few years ago I had a program on the Amiga that would take a Spectrum game and save it out via the serial port to a cassette tape player. T…

    What do you mean, "Too heavy a compression"?
    Swevicus Swevicus June 2007 Hardware
  • A thought about Top GunI've been playing a bit of Top Gun earlier, and I'm not convinced it should be classed as a vector 3D game, as I'm seeing really nothing that would m…

    ... , and wasn`t thinking of compression being used as I forget ...
    CKay CKay July 2007 Games
  • Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …

    ... binarys for the butbuster extreme compression util, and no C compiler ...
    Kilby Kilby July 2007 Development
  • Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …

    Personally I use PuCrunch, it's fast, and has a very good compression ratio.
    bobs bobs July 2007 Development
  • Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …

    ... meant to give much better compression ratios than BB Extreme for ... have all required in-place compression (i.e. compressed data at ... Windows incidentally), which gives excellent compression at the cost of a ...
    gasman gasman July 2007 Development
  • Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …

    ... the winner as regards inital compression ratio, but the unpack routine ...
    Kilby Kilby July 2007 Development
  • Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …

    ... relocation or similar. And the compression level is decent too ....
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat July 2007 Development
  • GUIDE: How to convert TZXs to LOSSLESS low bitrate MP3s (56, 64 and 80 kbps)I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a single reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here seem to be intereste…

    Why isn't anyone using ogg for this purpose? It's non-lossy and has pretty good compression as far as I know. Or is it unsuitable for the purpose of storing the data of a speccy tape?
    Arjun Arjun July 2007 Hardware
  • GUIDE: How to convert TZXs to LOSSLESS low bitrate MP3s (56, 64 and 80 kbps)I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a single reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here seem to be intereste…

    ... .5 skip"

    NTFS compression is recommended as the intermediate ...
    dekh dekh July 2007 Hardware
  • GUIDE: How to convert TZXs to LOSSLESS low bitrate MP3s (56, 64 and 80 kbps)I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a single reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here seem to be intereste…

    ... -lossy and has pretty good compression as far as I know ... his method exploits the MP3 compression algorithm (which works by decomposing ...
    gasman gasman July 2007 Hardware
  • Graphic requestedI'm looking for help with the creation of a graphic. Consider an external website, which talks about or reviews a Spectrum title, and has a button t…

    ... . You also normally get better compression (lower filesizes) with PNG than ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz July 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • GUIDE: How to convert TZXs to LOSSLESS low bitrate MP3s (56, 64 and 80 kbps)I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a single reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here seem to be intereste…

    ... -lossy and has pretty good compression as far as I know ...
    Rephlex Rephlex July 2007 Hardware
  • GUIDE: How to convert TZXs to LOSSLESS low bitrate MP3s (56, 64 and 80 kbps)I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a single reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here seem to be intereste…

    ... his method exploits the MP3 compression algorithm (which works by decomposing ...
    Rephlex Rephlex July 2007 Hardware
  • GUIDE: How to convert TZXs to LOSSLESS low bitrate MP3s (56, 64 and 80 kbps)I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a single reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here seem to be intereste…

    ... -lossy and has pretty good compression as far as I know ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz July 2007 Hardware
  • GUIDE: How to convert TZXs to LOSSLESS low bitrate MP3s (56, 64 and 80 kbps)I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a single reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here seem to be intereste…

    ... have looked up Ogg Vorbis compression technique before spouting off. Apologies ...
    Arjun Arjun July 2007 Hardware
  • Converting .wma to .mp3Im using Winamp to convert an album from 128kbps .wma to 128kbps .mp3. Does this introduce much degradation in quality? Does it add hissing or anyt…

    ... original WAV when using Flac compression.
    Megatron-UK Megatron-UK July 2007 Chit chat
  • Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …

    ... relocation or similar. And the compression level is decent too ....
    Arda Arda July 2007 Development
  • Help hacking Split PersonalitiesI`ve been hacking away at Split Personalities for the purpose of putting new screens and graphics (items). The current screen is at 41187 and is 160…

    ... , is this important to the compression or just the format of ...
    FrankT FrankT July 2007 Games
  • Help hacking Split PersonalitiesI`ve been hacking away at Split Personalities for the purpose of putting new screens and graphics (items). The current screen is at 41187 and is 160…

    ... , is this important to the compression or just the format of ... 6. It's just another compression technique for drawing straight lines ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous July 2007 Games
  • PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…

    But then you need one extra bit to indicate whether it's compressed or not...

    (i.e. Philip is right, but any compression algorithm can be trivially modified to ensure that the worst case is original size plus one bit)
    gasman gasman July 2007 Emulators
  • PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…

    ... , not even bothering with any compression. Nevertheless, I still doubt how ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak July 2007 Emulators
  • text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …

    ... get more than a 20% compression). For simple schemes, you could ...
    Winston Winston July 2007 Sinclair Basic
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