Steve Nickolas

I'm going to release the wrapper I now use to automate things. Not all my
exomized files were created with this and a lot were done with either an
older version of this wrapper or manually.

Here's the current source:
http://xtra.usotsuki.info/automiz2.c

I compiled it in openwatcom but there's no reason it shouldn't work in gcc
still. It requires exomizer 2 (I think I've used beta 4) to be in path.
The settings are for PRG files intended for a C64 and then manually
tweaked to expect Ciderpress files instead (so you need to extract files
with Ciderpress using the type/address in-filename magic, e.g, #060800,
and it outputs files using the same scheme.)

Exomizer is at http://hem.bredband.net/magli143/exo/ if you need it.

OK, here's some stuff I noticed from the compression results.

The vast majority of games compressed to less than 3/5, and often about
half, of their original size. Games made with Arcade Machine tended to
compress particularly well, and many of the larger games had higher
compression ratios. A few files of nearly 36K were reduced to less than a
quarter their original size, while the only 3 files which retained more
than 70% of their original size were very small games.

There's about 160 games in the collection now and I've organized them into
18 disk images. Unlike Apple Crunch, this set doesn't use custom menus,
but the same menu from disk to disk; nor a custom DOS, but an ordinary DOS
3.3 (STOS 1.7, the same as a lot of my DOS 3.3 stuff). The menu is a bit
sluggish, admittedly. It's certainly no KEY-CAT, although it is very
similar to it (by design, as KEY-CAT was one of the most used menu systems
for Apple ][ game collections back in the day).

Thanks to the files on the "C700 Club" page there's a game I just added to
the project yesterday - where most of the games were sitting on my
computer for a couple years - "Mr. Do!". As it was a last-minute addition
it is on the last disk.

One of the games I just can't get to work crunched is Wavy Navy. :<

I'd like to get rid of more "tros" to save even more space, as I did with
Cubit and Mario Bros.

Here's the collection:
http://xtra.usotsuki.info/160games.zip

If anyone thinks it would be worth breaking out onto Asimov or that it
might be worthwhile to dump this beast there (prolly into
games/file_based like my GameDOS stuff)... well, there it is... but it's
mostly taken from Asimov to begin with.

Here's the table that shows how far the games were packed:
http://xtra.usotsuki.info/mihax.txt

-uso.

Mike

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:05:35 +0100, Steve Nickolas
<lyricalnanoha@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:

>One of the games I just can't get to work crunched is Wavy Navy. :<
>
>I'd like to get rid of more "tros" to save even more space, as I did with
>Cubit and Mario Bros.
>
>Here's the collection:
> http://xtra.usotsuki.info/160games.zip
>
>If anyone thinks it would be worth breaking out onto Asimov or that it
>might be worthwhile to dump this beast there (prolly into
>games/file_based like my GameDOS stuff)... well, there it is... but it's
>mostly taken from Asimov to begin with.
>
>Here's the table that shows how far the games were packed:
> http://xtra.usotsuki.info/mihax.txt
>
>-uso.

Both of those xtra.usotsuki.ino links result in a 404 error...

Mike Maginnis

Blog: http://6502lane.net
Scans: http://apple2scans.net
Podcast: http://open-apple.net

Steve Nickolas

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Mike wrote:

> Both of those xtra.usotsuki.ino links result in a 404 error...

Fixed. Forgot a "cd" before uploading.

-uso.