[HN Gopher] The original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) compressor sour...
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       The original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) compressor source code has
       been released
        
       Author : elvis70
       Score  : 112 points
       Date   : 2025-06-30 19:19 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | johndoe0815 wrote:
       | Whow, another well-known piece of software that was written by
       | Fabrice Bellard. He's also the original author of qemu, tinyemu,
       | tcc, ffmpeg and many more.
       | 
       | https://bellard.org
        
         | mrkramer wrote:
         | His track record is exceptional, he must be a Godlike
         | programmer!
        
           | ddalex wrote:
           | I'm big fan of Monsieur Bellard, not because he made things
           | complicated, but because he made things simple.
           | 
           | I read through the original source of qemu and the tiny C
           | compiler and the simplicity and beauty of the code are
           | outstanding.
        
           | theandrewbailey wrote:
           | The only other person I can think of with a similar rank is
           | John Carmack.
        
         | egorfine wrote:
         | One of the most influential programmers of our time, if not
         | _the_ most.
        
         | jpeeler wrote:
         | I wish the code page https://bellard.org/lzexe/ had gone more
         | into the inspiration of pklite. Used pkware's tools a lot
         | growing up.
        
       | userbinator wrote:
       | Incidentally, PC BIOSes used the LZ* family of compression
       | algorithms too. LZSS (also known as LZ12/4 for its allocation of
       | indicator word bits), LZARI, LZHUF (which lead to the famous
       | LHA/LZH, and then Deflate/Zlib, ZIP, etc.), and LZINT were all
       | commonly encountered. Apparently Phoenix had a patent on it:
       | 
       | https://patents.google.com/patent/US5836013A/en (search for LZSS)
       | 
       | Despite the relative obscurity of Okumura's code, it has
       | definitely had a huge impact.
        
       | hannob wrote:
       | That brings back some memories...
       | 
       | Back in the 90s, there was a whole scene around exe/com
       | compression and protection tools. ("Protection" in the sense that
       | people figured out if they compress their executables, that also
       | mean you cannot simply modify strings in them any more, and that
       | was expanded to all kinds of anti-debugging protection. However,
       | it never lasted long until the next unpacker was able to break
       | it.)
       | 
       | I never acquired the skills to write such tools myself, but I
       | wrote a detection tool and ran a mailing list.
       | 
       | Or in other wors, in case you were around at that time: I'm the
       | author of chkexe and ran the exe mailing list.
        
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