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diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt deleted file mode 100644 index ad66a20..0000000 --- a/README.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,95 +0,0 @@ -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: - - https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/repos/unalf - -The latest Windows binary release is available at: - - 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 -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. - -This project is by B. Watson (urchlay@slackware.uk). - -The rest of this file is a list of the contents of the git repository -or distribution tar/zip file. - -Included in both the source and binary distributions: - -- README.txt - you're reading it now. - -- TODO.txt - plans for the future. - -- doc/Arcinfo - describes the format of ARC compressed files. The ALF - file structure is almost identical to ARC's. This file was taken from - the arc-5.21q source. - -- doc/DZ.COM - the Atari executable of the ALF extractor (aka UNALF). - This and LZ.COM are the same files as the ones inside the .atr image. - -- doc/LZ.COM - the Atari executable of the ALF archiver (aka ALF). - -- doc/alf14.atr - bootable DOS 2.0S disk image, with LZ.COM (aka ALF), - DZ.COM (aka UNALF), and the documentation. This is not the original - distribution disk: there never was one. Alfred distributed these - files as an ARC archive on his BBS. - -- doc/alf14_doc.txt - the documentation for LZ.COM and DZ.COM, extracted - from the disk image and converted from ATASCII to standard ASCII. - -- doc/fileformat.txt - documents how the ALF file format differs from ARC. - -- doc/interview.txt - an email interview with Alfred, author of AlfCrunch - for the Atari 8-bit. - -- doc/review.txt - a review of the original ALFCrunch, from an Atari - magazine. - -- examples/* - ALF files found in the wild. - -Included in the source distribution only: - -- BUILD.txt - directions for compiling unalf. - -- src/ - the source. - -- doc/LZDZ.zip - 6502 assembly source for LZ.COM and DZ.COM, by Alfred. - This isn't the original source (which was for Mac/65), it's been - split into multiple files and ported to the Six Forks assembler. - -- f65/ - "fake 6502" porting layer. Not for the faint of heart. The - unalf algorithm was ported from a disassembly of the 6502 code, - using a perl script to convert the 6502 mnemonics to C macros. - This means I was able to port the code without fully understanding - how it works... - -- testing/alfls - a Perl script that lists the contents of an ALF - archive. Run it with --help for more information. If you're - packaging unalf for a distribution, there's no need to include this - script in the package: I wrote it for testing purposes only. You can - use "unalf -l" to list .alf files, so this is redundant. - -- magic/ - "magic" that allows the file(1) command to identify ALF - archive files. See magic/MAGIG.txt for details. - -Included in the binary distribution only: - -- README_Windows.txt. - -- alf.exe, unalf.exe, and alfsum.exe - the Windows executables. - -- alf.html, unalf.html, alfsum.html - the man pages, converted to HTML. |
