The official P8PNG compression routines

ā€” Lab Notes

For #pico8 hackers and historians, I put the C code for the P8PNG compression routines (legacy and PXA) on Github and linked them from the Wiki: github.com/dansanderson/lā€¦

Many thanks to @lexaloffle for releasing this code officially!

(You wouldn’t know this but I must apologize for having taken so long to post these. These were generously “leaked” to me by zep years ago and it’s been on my to-do list to upload them. I’ve been hoarding secrets! šŸ˜© But the community figured out the algos long ago, so. šŸ˜…)

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