[mcgeezer]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

Propack is usually very good, Shrinkler is better, but its VERY slow to depack, but Shrinkler was the deciding factor in me getting Nitro to fit on one disk like the original, Propack couldn't quite manage it.

Propack is useful for most applications, its just on this one i'm doing, I need realtime depacking because of the way the project works, otherwise I wouldn't bother at all.

Originally Posted by DrBong

Yeh, what Phill said. Shrinkler will usually get the best bang for your buck for compression, but it's very very slow (e.g. took ~3 minutes IIRC to decompress the 1.4MB Crazy Priest game exec on a standard A500 when I one-disked the game). Not surprising as Shrinkler was likely designed to compress demos.

Cranker is much the same, but will nicely decompress a file as it's loading and won't cost you any real additional memory to do so. Otherwise ProPack, XPK SHRI and PowerData are worth trying for A500 configs IMHO.

Thanks gents, I'll give these a try and post my results back into this thread when I've done it.

Geezer