• Hey everyone happy Christmas Eve we're aware of what's happened with the source code so to keep this simple absolutely don't post it on the site or use it to make mods with (it's not particularly preferable toward this end anyway) and tread lightly in general until we see how this settles, thanks to all and have a great holiday season -DT
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  • Lace
    Because rather than loading page by page as needed, it loads the entire exe into memory at once, which can theoretically cause a slowdown.
    Also it makes it so the exe can't refer to itself? (idk I read this somewhere).

    But iunno!
    Noxid
    upx has to be run from console. You navigate to the folder it's in, then type the command "upx programname.exe" [obv. substituting the name of the thing you want to compress] and hit enter to see it go. Why would compressing the exe ever be a bad thing? There's a bit about dll's, how if you compress those they can't be shared by diff programs, but that's irrelevant.

    Furthermore I can't irc tonight because stuff.
    Lace
    irc?
    I am not understanding how to do the UPX :Face
    Also my internets are saying compressing exes is a bad idea?
    Wedge of Cheese
    Alright, I've listened to the first 5 so far, and I think in terms of just overall quality, Main Vein is my favorite. No Ya Not & No Ya Didn't is somewhat funkier, but the former feels more like "soooouuulll music" to me.
    Lace
    It could add another layer of security to 2xres then, but as far as I know more security is unnecessary.
    I'll try it out once I find an exe to use it on
    Lace
    Wikipedia just gave me a vague overview, but other than that no.
    Pourquoi?
    DoubleThink
    Hey uh my memory is failing me, can you remember what the third boss in Metal Paws was/if there was one?
    Lace
    Well I was just doing double as shortnotation -- it would actually have to be mov ecx,[buffa+eax*4] followed by [ecx].

    That was what I was thinking too, but I wasn't sure (particularly on byte dword cost equivalence)
    Lace
    Hmk.

    On a completely unrelated note, do you have thoughts on this?:
    Assuming eax is either 0, 1, or 2, would you think that [[buffa+eax*4]] or [buffb+eax*4b000] would be a faster operation? (they are equivalent, ie, [buffa] = buffb, [buffa+4] = buffb+4b000, [buffa+8] = buffb+96000)
    Lace
    But why would people immigrate to a newly established, not well defended city that isn't likely to survive?
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