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I always used LHA. I think I'm in good company seeing as Carmack used it to compress assets in both Doom and Quake.
by Wildgoose 5y ago
I always used LHA. I think I'm in good company seeing as Carmack used it to compress assets in both Doom and Quake.
- glenneroo 5y agoLHA was released as freeware and included some source code to help with porting, whereas PKZip was released as shareware and as the article mentions, it's hard to find actual implementation details around i.e. it was probably easier/cheaper/smarter to go with LHA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHA_(file_format) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHA_(file_format)