• Kenny Code for DOS

    From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 24 10:04:39 2023
    XPost: comp.lang.asm, alt.lang.asm

    Smallest possible? Kenny code converters
    (m=0, p=1, f=2; so 'A' encodes as 'Mmm')
    e.g.
    "What's up, Doc?"
    encodes as
    "Fppmfpmmmfmp'fmm fmfpfm, Mpmppfmmf?"


    Encoder 73 bytes:

    d 100 l49
    16AB:0100 B4 3F B5 3D-BA 49 01 89-D6 89 C7 CD-21 91 E3 35 .?.=.I......!..5 16AB:0110 57 BB 46 01-AC AA 0C 20-3C 7A 77 1B-2C 61 72 17 W.F.... <zw.,ar. 16AB:0120 BA DF 09 4F-0A 15 98 F6-F6 D7 AA 88-E0 80 EE 06 ...O............ 16AB:0130 77 F4 D7 AA-20 55 FD E2-DB BB 01 00-89 F9 5A 29 w... U........Z) 16AB:0140 D1-B4 40 CD 21-C3 6D 70 66 ..@.!.mpf


    Decoder 78 bytes:

    d 100 l4E
    16AB:0100 B4 3F B5 BF-BA 4E 01 89-D6 BF 52 C0-CD 21 91 E3 .?...N....R..!.. 16AB:0110 39 57 BA 20-0F 31 C0 22-14 80 C2 41-F6 E6 00 C2 9W. .1."...A.... 16AB:0120 AC AA 0C 20-93 BD 04 00-4D 74 13 3A-86 4A 01 75 ... ....Mt.:.J.u 16AB:0130 F7 4D 95 4F-80 EE 06 77-E3 00 D0 AA-49 49 E2 D2 .M.O...w....II.. 16AB:0140 43 89-F9 5A 29 D1-B4 40 CD 21-C3 6D 70 66 C..Z)..@.!.mpf



    Both use DOS Int 21 for redirection; e.g.
    Enken<plaintxt.txt>kencode.txt
    Deken<kencode.txt

    Asm programs assume bx=0,al=0 at start
    Size limit of 15k of plain txt.
    Capitalisation catered for.
    Nonalpha chars 'encoded' asis, and similarly any
    non-kennycode chars in the decode stream left asis.
    But GIGO rules still apply!


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    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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