Public domain tile compression/decompression
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Chilly Willy
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Sik made two general compressors for the MD: SLZ and UFTC. SLZ is a general lzss compressor/decompressor meant for whole files. UFTC is a tile compressor/decompressor that allows you to compress an entire set of tiles, but decompress any set of tiles (one or more) from anywhere in the compressed set. Very handy that way.
He set up a git repository. To checkout SLZ, use
and to checkout UFTC, use
If you aren't too familiar with git, you update to the latest code in the repo by cd-ing to the directory clone created and doing "git pull".
He set up a git repository. To checkout SLZ, use
Code:
git clone [url]https://github.com/sikthehedgehog/mdtools/tree/master/slz[/url]and to checkout UFTC, use
Code:
git clone [url]https://github.com/sikthehedgehog/mdtools/tree/master/uftc[/url]If you aren't too familiar with git, you update to the latest code in the repo by cd-ing to the directory clone created and doing "git pull".
Thanks Chilly Willy! As usual, your advice is (as Asus is prone to say about their motherboards) ROCK SOLID: HEART TOUCHING!!
For the dingle-dorks like me still using Windows and have no experience in C (beyond creating 12 errors in a 5 line "Hello World" program) grab Portable GIT here:
https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
Then, in the GIT command prompt, run this:
git clone git://github.com/sikthehedgehog/mdtools.git
The nice thing is Sik used a permissive license for Mega Drive development. When GPL3 came up I had visions of being forced to submit my source code as a pack-in with every cart
For the dingle-dorks like me still using Windows and have no experience in C (beyond creating 12 errors in a 5 line "Hello World" program) grab Portable GIT here:
https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
Then, in the GIT command prompt, run this:
git clone git://github.com/sikthehedgehog/mdtools.git
The nice thing is Sik used a permissive license for Mega Drive development. When GPL3 came up I had visions of being forced to submit my source code as a pack-in with every cart
Chilly Willy
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slobu said:The nice thing is Sik used a permissive license for Mega Drive development. When GPL3 came up I had visions of being forced to submit my source code as a pack-in with every cart
Hehehe - it makes sense that the compressor tool be GPL since it's for the PC and doesn't go in the MD project at all. Most MD devs are good about the MD code being a permissive license. All my stuff is MIT, for example.
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