Project status = Welp...
I hope this isn't strike 2 in terms losing my sources, my PC died about 2 days ago, motherboard and GPU got fried this time XD. As for my sources well they were stored on my main PC (the dead one) and I don't know if they are safe since I don't have a spare PC to boot up the drive to grab important files and store them to my backup drive, so I can't really tell if the only components that died were only the board and GPU and not my HDD, but I guess that's a story for some other time. If you are wondering what this means in terms of xtool 2019...
Well since I normally code from desktop because I don't need to go far to do things and etc, it was different for xtool somehow... because I was coding from a backup drive only for that project like I knew some shit like this would happen so yes the source is safe (lucky af), if you are wondering about the development now that my main PC is busted.
Well I just had to dust an old laptop and continued development there, issue is it's incredibly slow but it will have to do. If you are wondering why I only provided x86 binaries, well. OS is 32-bit
, somehow can't compile for x64.
Anyways enough about that, this was suppose to be the last test before the first release, but before I uploaded, I noticed some shitty error in made in the reflate code and I have to rewrite some parts of it so after fixing that, I'll post the final test and if all is good, I'll be making a release.
there are 3 codecs in xtool right now (zlib, reflate, rzlib). The bug was in reflate in multi threaded mode when decoding, but if you want to try it out anyways, open the test bat file. replace zlib with reflate or rzlib but use 1 thread to decode.
zlib = xtool uses zlib1.dll/zlibwapi.dll to process data, fails on some streams
reflate = xtool uses reflate dlls to process data, processes all streams but slow
rzlib = xtool blends zlib and reflate dlls to process data, processes all streams but with better size and speed.
PS: Even the archive is zip, don't have 7-Zip installed for my normal 7z attachments
PPS:
Nothing is stopping the development of this project XD... I hope cause you never know