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Re: Planet value calculation made easy!

Sat, 09 April 2005 15:02

Kotk

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PricklyPear wrote on Sat, 09 April 2005 20:58

Size of race files don't necessarily matter since they are produced after the EXE is distributed.

Heh?

I missed your point here. EXE is not bitpacked! You say you reverse engineer it? Rolling Eyes

EXE itself is bit bigger than logical thanks to very lot of bitpacking code. Anyone with eye who looks into it see it.

The makers said they did bitpack stuff to get the game files size down and so e-mail size down.

Actually i suspect they bitpacked everything since they just loved to do it. Why to squeeze planets x, y and name_id into 4 bytes in xy file? Why not to use logical 6 bytes? Its e-mailed only once so why to save these 2 kilobytes? Very minor effect.

But ... sure ... it somewhat helped. When the game was made there was no autohost. Worse ... no HTML and no WWW pages back then. Things like Telnet, FTP and SMTP. Stars was made as PBEM game. Play-By-E-Mail. You got to modem somewhere, to download and upload your e-mails ... etc. So ... it helped. Smile

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