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| author | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-11-26 06:06:49 -0500 |
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| committer | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-11-26 06:06:49 -0500 |
| commit | 4701ab9466dbf0b6039e106246c382367f228853 (patch) | |
| tree | 509872082e468b94338275d6ce318dec7e8b6d61 | |
| parent | 40ef881bd66fd3d9acf2e70d9046de25d18ba2da (diff) | |
| download | unalf-4701ab9466dbf0b6039e106246c382367f228853.tar.gz | |
Update README.txt.
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@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@ -unalf is a decompressor for the ALF file format, as used on the Atari -8-bit computers in the late 1980s. - -Currently, unalf is working and has been fairly well tested against -various ALF archives. +unalf is a compressor and decompressor for the ALF file format, as +used on the Atari 8-bit computers in the late 1980s. The latest unalf source is avaailable at: @@ -10,7 +7,7 @@ The latest unalf source is avaailable at: The latest Windows binary release is available at: - https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/unalf4win/unalf-0.1.0-win64.zip + https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/unalf4win/unalf-0.2.0-win64.zip The ultimate goal of this project is to reimplement the ALF compression and decompression algorithms on modern systems aka @@ -18,6 +15,11 @@ Linux and anything else that's POSIX-ish. It's also intended to be a repository of information about the ALF archiver (and UNALF dearchiver). +Currently, the compressor (alf) and the decompressor (unalf) are +working, though not widely tested. Possibly I should change the name +of this project from "unalf" to something like "alf-tools", now that +it has a compressor, too. + The original LZ.COM/DZ.COM (aka ALF/UNALF) programs for the Atari were written by Alfred. |