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An other fun trick is that zip being back-read means it can be smushed together with a file that’s forwards-read, and you get a dual-format file. That was a com
by masklinn 3y ago
An other fun trick is that zip being back-read means it can be smushed together with a file that’s forwards-read, and you get a dual-format file. That was a common way to smuggle archives on image boards.
pico-8 does that by design, the “cartridges” are image files, except it uses steganography to encode the program in the image instead of just smuggling.
- semi 3y agothis is also how self extracting executables work. It's just a program that extracts whatever zip file exists after the program itself. Rename it from exe to zip and you have a valid zip file that just happens to have windows executable code before the start of the zip contents