C=Hacking

Issue 17 (November 15th, 1998)

Table of Contents

BSOUT

Stephen L. Judd

Jiffies

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The C=Hallenge

Side Hacking

SuperCPU Software Repair

An amateur's excursion into correcting errant wares.

Stephen L. Judd

Main Articles

An Optimizing Hybrid LZ77 RLE Data Compression Program, aka Improving Compression Ratio for Low-Resource Decompression

Part two of a two-part article on data compression, giving a detailed description of the compression algorithms used in pucrunch, not to mention the decompression code.

Pasi Ojala

VIC-20 Kernel ROM Disassembly Project

This is the first in a series of articles which aims to present a complete, commented disassembly of the VIC-20 ROMs.

Richard Cini

asters Class: "NTSC/PAL fixing, part I

Sit up straight and pay attention. In the Masters Class, a Commodore luminary attempts to instruct a couple of ignorant plebians in his art. In this case, Robin and I set out to learn NTSC/PAL fixing from one of the greats, Decomp/Style. Our first fix, a demo from the obscure Finnish group Pu-239,
is included, along with detailed descriptions of our experiences.

Russel Reed, Robin Harbron, Stephen L. Judd

The Herd Mentality

This is a collection of entertaining musings on Commodore and the development of the C128, as provided by Bil Herd (and that's no bull). If you don't know who Bil Herd _is_, why not type SYS 32800,123,45,6 on a 128 sometime...

Bil Herd

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