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  • Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…

    I once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked ...
    dmsmith dmsmith September 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • New compression method: Exomizer 2After I finished working on optimizing aPLib's decoder, I was told that pucrunch did compress better, and while looking for info about pucrunch (it t…

    ... .
    The purpose of compressor was similar like yours: it ... empty.
    Now, compressor scans occurencies of byte pairs in input and ... in dictionary and replace all pairs by number of dictionary entry ... or more, Tolkien 5.0 text compressor used by Proxima in 90 ...
    Fikee Fikee January 2012 Development
  • Any news on the Minigame compo ?I was just wondering, does anybody have any idea as to when the next minigame compo will take place ? I'm eager to send my next crappy creation - per…

    ... by screenshot somebody has powerfull text compressor a very short parser)
    Fikee Fikee October 2004 Games
  • 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 …

    ... , I remember INPUT had a text compressor program, in issue 20 I ... over 40% compression on some text.
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 …

    ... did (roughly) search for a text compressor code in tasword 3 and ... kind of compression to increase text buffer. But again, I haven ... , no compression.

    IMHO, text compression with BASIC is not ...
    Arda Arda August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 …

    ... did (roughly) search for a text compressor code in tasword 3 and ... kind of compression to increase text buffer. But again, I ... no compression.

    IMHO, text compression with BASIC is not ... point, Tasword does not compress text.

    There is ...
    DEATH DEATH August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 …

    I just typed in the text compressor from INPUT. Seems to be ... that it stores the compressed text in a numeric array z ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 …

    ... ]I just typed in the text compressor from INPUT. [/QUOTE]

    Arjun Arjun August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Czech compilations not listed on Infoseek"Krtek a auticko": [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002774[/url] and "bad dream": [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseeki…

    ... not utility but almost WYSIWIG text editor/processor

    text adventure, Miroslav Hlavička ... version of PRESSOR (screen compressor) but don't know ... br />
    TOLKIEN - internal text compressor (probably LZ78/LZW type) used ...
    Fikee Fikee July 2009 Infoseek database
  • Finders Keepers+I know a few of you are interested in this project so I thought it was about time I started a proper thread for it rather than just slipping bits int…

    ... I've almost completed my text compressor I have a language data ... block where text is referenced from an EQU ... /> If the data is foreign text everything will work exactly the ... languages? The basic Finders Keepers text is about 4k uncompressed. I ...
    David Jones David Jones December 2013 Development
  • How much can you get into 48k?Todays experiment was to see how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I filled it up with * and counted them and got 689 chrs. Almost 22…

    ... bold Windows font and combining text and a graphic and ... really text heavy then you may need to use a text compressor. There ... was a text compression program in ... that method because the compressed text is not stored in program ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2019 BASIC
  • Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…

    ... type-in was the INPUT Text Compressor, although it was machine code ... ://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/utilities/text-compressordecompressor-input

    Part ... machine code routine for the compressor / decompressor
    https://archive.org ...
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…

    ... . It made use of the text compressor but both the BASIC control ... program and the compressed text itself especially were huge type ...
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • ZXSCLZF - Yet another Screen CompressorQuick disclaimer before I continue, this compressor does not shrink screens as small as some of the others posted here, in particular the very good z…

    ... before I continue, this compressor does not shrink screens ... ASM code in a text file (or to the ... // *****************************************************************************
    // zxsclzf ZX Spectrum Screen Compressor
    // by Tom Dalby 2015 ...
    TomD TomD April 2017 Development
  • MuCho multiple choise adventure engine, release 2 - little to no programming neededRelease 2 of the MuCho multiple choise adventure (CYOA, choose your own adventure, gamebook) game engine. http://iki.fi/sol/zip/mucho_02.zip Fo…

    ... , I compress all pages in pairs to see what yields the ... the pages that have similar text close to each other in ... to run them through the compressor and see the result. So ...
    Sol_HSA Sol_HSA October 2016 Development
  • Making a speccy-like text-adventure for WindowsWell, I downloaded an adventure creator for Windows 95/98 from: [url]www.adrift.org.uk[/url] and I just thought I'd recommend it, just in case any …

    ... speccy fans fancy making a text-adventure just like in the ... know of any other free text-adventure creators I could try ...
    Michael McLarnon Michael McLarnon August 2001 Games
  • Text info at FTP sitesBeware of game text info supplied by worldwide FTP sites. You can read there that Underwurlde has 256 screens or the mission of Dynamite Dan is to re…

    Beware of game text info supplied by worldwide FTP sites. You can read there that Underwurlde has 256 screens or the mission of Dynamite Dan is to rescue his girlfriend.
    Who's writing this? Is there any possibility to correct these articles?
    Dynamite Dan Dynamite Dan March 2002 Games
  • Best Text AdventureText adventures were considered 2nd class games by many, but any1 who played them know they had as many great moments as most of the classics. My to…

    Text adventures were considered 2nd class ...
    Vampyre Vampyre May 2002 Games
  • What was the text adventure game based around surviving a nuclear war in suburbun London?I remember playing a game, I played loads my dad had a shop selling them, text adventure. You were based in a suburb as a civilian, and a nuclear w…

    ... had a shop selling them, text adventure.

    You were ...
    thx1138 thx1138 December 2002 Games
  • NEW FANTASY TEXT-ADVENTURE?Are there still any freaks of the genre? Is there any point to make an English version of our new text-adventure game? (It would be a lot of work, s…

    Are there still any freaks of the genre?
    Is there any point to make an English version of our new text-adventure game? (It would be a lot of work, so I'm askin')
    Yerz Yerz January 2003 Games
  • Number 6 in the Village (text adventure) Please help!!!Does anyone have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to escape by air and sea using the jammer but it hasn't worked. I've been playing it …

    ... have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to ...
    CanItMarvin CanItMarvin March 2003 Games
  • TEXT ADVENTURE MANOR OF DOOM BY ROB STRINGERHi, Is anyone else playing this text adventure at all as I am and am stuck at the moment with getting the long key and opening the hatch in the ceil…

    ... /> Is anyone else playing this text adventure at all as I ...
    JTAWHITE JTAWHITE July 2003 Games
  • The Text Adventure whats it called?Back in ye olde days me and my brothers used to play this text adventure game but like so many cant remember the name of it. Basically it started wi…

    ... brothers used to play this text adventure game but like so ...
    CommanderJameson CommanderJameson August 2003 Games
  • Ported whole casettes of backuped utiltilitiesHi! A friend of mine gave me a few casettes he found in the attic - he used these to backup ORIGINAL casettes he had back in the spectrum games. The…

    ... .941s
    9- 6BF4: Program : COMPRESSOR Length: 19 Normal Speed ,Pause ...
    69-3FB66: Program : RAM text Length: 19 Normal Speed ,Pause ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat August 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Basic Compilers and My Compressor CodeAs I mentioned in another thread I'm currently writing a set of compression routines for saving +3 disk space. I've done the first stage (write the …

    ... the decompressor is quick, the compressor is incredibly slow so testing ... feasible.

    Because the compressor is looking for patterns in ...
    BuzzinRich BuzzinRich September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Text compressionI'm sure I remember seeing a short machine code routine published in a (very random) multi-machine listings magazine way back in the mists of time, w…

    ... of time, which compressed the text in the screen so more ... the same effect as the text in The Hobbit and Dragonsbane ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Games
  • Transfer Tasword II files to raw text filesHow can I transfer my loaded Tasword files to raw text files, that I can read with a PC?

    How can I transfer my loaded Tasword files to raw text files, that I can read with a PC?
    wilko0070 wilko0070 November 2003 Emulators
  • 42 column text, Sinclair Print Utilities, etcI'm currently developing the next of the ZXIF text adventures - "43 Minutes" and, as a side issue, I'm really interested in 42 column text for this g…

    ... the next of the ZXIF text adventures - "43 Minutes" and, as ... really interested in 42 column text for this game. I'm ... number of different text sizes, including 42 column text. I've studied ...
    woodcock88 woodcock88 February 2004 Development
  • Getting basic program listings into a text fileHi - can anyone tell me if there is an easy way of getting basic program listings out of an (any) Spectrum emulator and into a text file on your PC? …

    ... ) Spectrum emulator and into a text file on your PC?
    jacobmph jacobmph March 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • Text adventuresHi everyone (first post!) how ya all doing? I was just wondering to myself how many of you used to play text adventures? I remember when I was aroun…

    ... of you used to play text adventures? I remember when I ...
    Sven Sven March 2004 Games
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