Re: Filecracking Joust?

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.

I suspect that the much slower C=64 disk drives caused greater interest in
file compression. 

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon