I've just been reading about range/arithmetic coding, which feels like it should do better than Huffman but seems to require some modulo arithmetic per input or output token so may not be time effective on a Sam. Have you been using anything like that?
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Thomas Harte <tomh.retros...@gmail.com> wrote: > It'll be interesting to see how you've done it. If code overhead is an > issue then you've obviously taken quite a different approach to me. > > I had a quick poke around on Amazon for textbooks on this sort of > thing but ended up preordering a Kindle. So that's my book budget gone > for the next couple of months... > > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Adrian Brown > <adr...@apbcomputerservices.co.uk> wrote: >> Ill extract it from the code that I cant send and put it in its own project >> is C first >> >> Adrian >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On >> Behalf Of Stefan Drissen >> Sent: 01 August 2010 13:31 >> To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no >> Subject: RE: Dizzy (was:Porting spectrum games...) >> >> Not a C person, but would http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ help? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On >> Behalf Of Adrian Brown >> Sent: zondag 1 augustus 2010 14:04 >> To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no >> Subject: RE: Dizzy (was:Porting spectrum games...) >> >> This will be a nightmare to get into z80 ;) that is the downside. (unless >> you build it using Sam C - it might compile under that) but i think a z80 >> version would be required. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On >> Behalf Of Thomas Harte >> Sent: 01 August 2010 12:16 >> To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no >> Subject: Re: Dizzy (was:Porting spectrum games...) >> >> As a quick mea culpa, there was a bug in my code that means the second >> set of figures I had were wrong. I'm back to an average 10% and up to >> 15% worse than Adrian. >> >> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Frode Tennebø <fr...@tennebo.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:18:55 +0200, Andrew Park <alp...@ntlworld.com> >> wrote: >>> >>>> Back in the days of the Sam there was a screen compressing utility which >>>> was ok, anyone know where i can find it? >>> >>> Lord Insanity's Screen Cruncher >>> >> (ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/disks/utils/LordInsanityScreenCruncher. >> zip)? >>> >>> -Frode >>> >>> -- >>> ^ Frode Tennebø | email: fr...@tennebo.com | fr...@irc ^ >>> | with Standard.Disclaimer; use Standard.Disclaimer; | >>> >> >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3042 - Release Date: 07/31/10 >> 20:34:00 >> >> >> >> >> >
