14 December 2008, 22:10 | #1 |
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Cruncher ...... what ?
What is a cruncher and what referred to ?
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14 December 2008, 22:15 | #2 |
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A cruncher is a packer like WinZip, WinRAR or 7-Zip. It's called cruncher because it 'crunches' data to a smaller size
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All data like a normal packer would do it. It uses an algorithm to compress the data, so it can be used on any data (executables, gfx, sfx and music). Many crackers used them to free some space on a disk for cracktros and the like.
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15 December 2008, 10:50 | #7 |
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not only that but with them installed right they unpack on the fly
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15 December 2008, 12:49 | #8 |
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there are also packers like Powerpacker or imploder that crunch executables files leaving them still executables. which is, in a way, boring.
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i know, you literal dude
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Further more, Power Packer can also crunch libraries (loadseg option), and have them automatically decrunched with powerpacker patch. Used to be great back when I had an Amiga 500 with only a diskdrive, and also for my A1200s first harddisk, which was only 63mb!
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not all libraries worked still when i did this (1992?) but it was very cool to try
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15 December 2008, 17:21 | #14 |
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this is something else the pc lack`s a decent real time compressor, sure you can compress a drive but not all compressors are good for all data
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ahhh happy dayz
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i did not liked it either, it was so out of design. still it was better than a red screen...
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later the xpk libraries offer the same feature with better compressed ratio and specific libs for specific type of data.
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