BARGAIN 14.23

MSX image compression suite BARGAIN has received yet another series of optimizations. The changelog since we last reported about this utility:

Changed drive select hotkey from SELECT to TAB
Scraped 5 more bytes off the assemble (de)compression routine
Compression now shows space savings (with a minus sign) instead of compression ratio

For those interested in the difference between compression ratio and space savings, this wiki might come in handy.

Relevant link: BARGAIN website

Comments (15)

By KdL

Paragon (1451)

18-04-2013, 17:28

woooh! 66 pics in a floppy, very impressive!

http://www.tcn.ne.jp/~hcmkkk/MSX/magazine.zip

By Edwin

Paragon (1182)

18-04-2013, 20:58

I'm trying to understand the encoder. Unfortunately I can't make heads or tails from the description. I can't even display the file with properly aligned diagrams.

By snout

Ascended (15187)

18-04-2013, 21:03

Well, the developer tends to read posts about BARGAIN here, so he might reply. What I'm curious about is: how does Bargain compare to other compression routines for MSX?

By Edwin

Paragon (1182)

18-04-2013, 22:29

For graphics it beats everything I have tested.

By snout

Ascended (15187)

18-04-2013, 22:36

Wow! In compression rate, (decompression) speed or both?

By Edwin

Paragon (1182)

18-04-2013, 22:41

In compression rate. Speed is a bit harder to compare since this one decompresses from VRAM to VRAM.

By sd_snatcher

Prophet (3659)

26-12-2013, 23:36

There are some nifty benchmarks on the compression ratio on this link.

Too sad I couldn't find any info on the file specs. It seems to be a great file format, but definitely hard to try to code a PC compatible converter just by looking at the asm code with Japanese comments.

By sd_snatcher

Prophet (3659)

19-08-2020, 12:37

The website seems to be gone, so we can only rely on its Internet archived page.

Does anyone have a backup of the sample image disks? They are not available at the Internet Archive.

By sd_snatcher

Prophet (3659)

19-08-2020, 12:40

BARGAIN 14.24 is also available for download at Vector, but again without the sample disks.

By Pac

Scribe (7007)