Re: Filecracking Joust?

[qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com>]

> > I'm amazed no one was widely doing it back in the day - was it just 
> > because the right tools didn't exist?
> 
> Pretty much - a lot of it requires software run on a recentish machine.
> I did use a translator wedge to convert between what I needed/had (Apple 
> ][ binaries) and what Exomizer wanted/expected (C64 binary format).

I wrote an LZ-based compressor (it's on my website) that runs directly on the Apple II, because I'd never seen one.  The C64 scene had several tools, and the Amiga scene had *lots*.  No idea why the C64 tools didn't get ported back to the Apple II.