Re: Stepping through Rocky's Boots (to possibly P8 it)

[Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Steve Nickolas wrote:

> I mentioned before the disk space issue

<SNIP>

> My attempts at optimization didn't make it small enough that I could ram it 
> together with the ROCKY.SYSTEM code and use it that way.
>
> The current disk image has 8 blocks (4 KB, minus filesystem overhead) free. 
> ProDOS' kernel is 32 blocks; using a 1.1.x kernel will provide an extra 1K, 
> *possibly* JUST enough for a compressed logo if I'm lucky.

Exomized the loader and it all JUST BARELY fit.  ONE block free.

http://1.buric.co/rocky8v2.dsk.gz

The loader is small enough that the decrunch is nowhere near as slow as 
for my normal game disks.

-uso.