Re: [stella] ROM image classifications

Subject: Re: [stella] ROM image classifications
From: Adam Wozniak <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 01:14:03 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Glenn Saunders wrote:
> Also, I'm against storing the ROM as uuencoded text in an XML file.  It's 
> really an inefficient way to go.  If you want to use some kind of ascii 
> format, use hex.  But even then you will have doubled the filesize of any 
> ROM image.

base64 expands by a factor of 1.333
hex expands by a factor of 2

both are useless until converted back to binary.

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