Re: QIX for ProDOS

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Monday, October 29, 2012 11:36:37 PM UTC-5, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, BLuRry wrote:
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> > On Monday, October 29, 2012 10:40:06 PM UTC-5, Steve Nickolas wrote:
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> >> I just noticed an interesting side-effect of file-cracking QIX...  it
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> >> boots in 1/3 the time >:P.  (sloppy timing in Authentic mode in AppleWin:
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> >> 53 seconds for the original, 17 seconds for my version).
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> >> -uso.
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> > j00 r00l.
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> > -B
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> I suck. >:P
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> I just can't seem to top that crack, and I'd really like to make a 
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> *collection* of these games, not just a *couple* of 'em.  Naturally it's a 
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> lot harder than Apple Crunch.
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> -uso.

A monster crack would be to recompile PoP to run off of Prodos using the filesystem instead of the 18-sector format.  It would probably be next to impossible though, but man it would rock.  Extra points: Restore Mechner's original editor.  The source is bundled (in fact, intertwined) with PoP's source.

The best part is that you don't have to reverse engineer anything, and thanks to Jac's work on Wudsn, you could use an IDE to manage the code and build everything.

-B