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Title: Best compression package
Post by: SHADES on June 05, 2005, 11:39:15 PM

@ all,

Hi everyone.
Does anyone know what the best excecutable (runtime) file compression package for AMIGA is??
I want to compress exactutable files for boot disk for AMIGA and the last I used was probably Imploder. Does anyone know of better than this? it works fine for most things, some cli programs complain though and I would like a better compression ratio if one exists.

Oh, one more thing, anyone heard of a 7zip port to AMIGA ??

Title: Re: Best compression package
Post by: SamuraiCrow on June 06, 2005, 07:30:58 PM

The only compressor I've used for executables is PowerPacker.  It may not compress as well as the others you mentioned, however...  The XPK compression libraries are more advanced than most compressors but I'm not sure if there's a LoadSeg patch for XPK like there is for PowerPacker.

7Zip hasn't been ported yet but it's open source if you are interested in doing it.

Title: Re: Best compression package
Post by: mattabat on June 07, 2005, 12:04:12 PM

The crunchers for the Amiga were StoneCracker, Imploder and PowerPacker. The best one was StoneCracker IMHO.
I suggest experimentation to figure out which one is best for you (they have different features and capabilities).

As there were various versions of these applications, here is what I know about them:
The last version of StoneCracker I know of was v4.10.3 professional, compiled 4-Jan-94 (using STC.library version 3.322). It's public domain as long as you don't make any money with it.
The last version of PowerPacker Professional I know of was version 4.1a compiled 23.8.92. Note that it was a commercial product, not PD or shareware. The last version of powerpacker.library I know of was v36.10.
The last version of Imploder I know of was v4.0 (30-jul-91). It was Freeware. The last version of the library that goes with Imploder (that I know of) was explode.library v6.0.64 (28-Oct-91 18:19:15) - and the AmigaOS 3.9 version command mungs it's version string :)

Title: Re: Best compression package
Post by: mattabat on June 08, 2005, 06:53:36 AM

Here is a site that knows more than I :) (but does not have PowerPacker v4.1a..)
http://www.amiga-stuff.com/crunchers-download.html