Re: Announcement: Colorix for Apple II

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

In comp.sys.apple2 Ventzislav Tzvetkov <drHirudo@mail.bg> wrote:
>> If you put the uncompress routine at the end and jump to it from the
>> start, you can uncompress directly at $800 and only overwrite data you
>> no longer need.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. This should work too, especially in my game,
> since it's not with big compression ratio, but if the compression ratio
> is high (compressed graphics, texts or sounds for example), this can
> make the uncompressed code to overwrite compressed data, which will be
> taken as a compressed from the routine, and can cause mess.  

Yes, but if you get it *just* right you can have it overwrite your
uncompression routine with the next bit of code you want to execute. 

It's always fun to mess with people who disassemble your code. :-)

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