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Re:Reversing LZ91 from Commander Keen by pdw on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @05:01PM (#28214807)
The article doesn't make this explicit, but this game is just using LZEXE. This was an executable file compressor that was very widely used in the early 90s. An early project by Fabrice Bellard!
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Re:Reversing LZ91 from Commander Keen by TacticalCoder on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @06:55PM (#28215723)
Oh my goodness! I spend countless hours using LZEXE back in the days and never made the link. I never realized it was made by Fabrice Bellard!

From his homepage:

> "I wrote LZEXE in 1989 and 1990 when I was 17."

Incredible.

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Re:Reversing LZ91 from Commander Keen by _kdave on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @06:30PM (#28215540)
Also tools like CUP386 did that for free, but anyway interesting read.
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