Re: More thoughts about Lode Runner & other multiload games...

[Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, BLuRry wrote:

> The levels have a lot of repetition and blank space -- I imagine that 
> RLE might be very successful if you want to try squeezing things in. 
> You might only get a 10-20% savings for the effort though.  Would that 
> be enough?

It might wreck the compression of the complete file, but perhaps.  I don't 
think even that would let me stuff *150* levels, but a lot of tape and 
cart versions didn't have 150 levels either (32 on Atari 400, VIC-20 and 
C64; 50 on NES), so it's no big deal if I limit the game to 50 levels 
(though 75's more ideal).

-uso.