Ah ok, I just remember seeing it somewhere before while compression was talked about so that's why I asked. But ah ok, thanks It'll be a long time before I incorporate any of that into anything I do though

It's not that big of a deal, though. They've already got a ready-made decompressor for the purpose of sticking it in your (Z80 ASM) program so you can use it to mess with chunks of data fitting of some really huge FlashAPP.

On a note related to the project, I have just enough to start working on the Z80 ASM side of things.

@Omni: That's good to know, I've only used WinRAR to un-group group files on Windows 7. I've never tried it on XP or below. I've also never fooled with Hacked pics either so I was unsure how those would be handled by the PC. I'd also imagine that the file would need to be un-grouped first before attempting any name changes.

To ungroup 8xg files with WinRAR do you just rename the extension ot .rar then extract the files? I wonder if the format is really that similar?

The file formats are completely different. Maybe there's some kind of plug-in for zipping programs?

I guess the group format uses a similar procedure to files which winrar supports natively. No renaming is necessary. Just right click the group file and choose extract all. Bam- you have a folder with the group name with all the files contained therein. =)

Oh, heh...  
I knew that... I was just testing you.... yea... that's it!

Also, double-clicking the group file opens its content in a Windows 98 looking way. It doesn't work in Windows 7 and can crash, though.

For me, it doesn't work if the group file is in a zip file.

Still reworking the packer part to Athena. Got a newer idea of generating these files. The initial file will instead have its metadata and data sections split so the metadata will be in its own file.

The data files are going to have names that are generated. The first character will be a theta, the next three are hex digits generated from the project name, and the last four are generated from the checksum of each file. In the event of a collision, the last four digits will just be incremented until there's no longer a problem.

EDIT: As for the windows problem, just look for the .8xp entry in the registry and delete that. It should solve your problem. Make sure you delete *all* entries, too. Some may be more obscure than others, and there may be more than one that's trying to associate your .8xp files with notepad.

Quote from: Builderboy on December 14, 2010, 02:11:05 pm

For me, windows is convinced 8xp are text files and will refuse to treat them as anything else

easy fix, just go to the control panel and change file associations

Iambian, I'm really looking forward to this

This doesn't always work I think. I accidentally made 8xk files be openable by Notepad once and I never could find the original TI-Connect app icon again in control panel afterward, so now there's no send to TI device option anymore, I have to double-click the APP. Reinstalling TI-Connect doesn't do the trick. Once you accidentally change TI-Connect file associations, it's over.