Support for compressed disk images

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It would be very useful if nowind hostapp would support compressed disk images 
(like gzipped ones). Similar to openMSX, perhaps.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by manuel.b...@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2012 at 8:04

• Blocked on: #15

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I'll handle this one.

Original comment by janwilm...@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2012 at 8:14

• Changed state: Accepted

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suggestion: use Boost Iostreams (can handle gzip, check for windows .zip or lzh 
support)

Original comment by janwilm...@gmail.com on 30 Jul 2012 at 9:13

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for .zip support (PKZip/windows) a wrapper is needed, example:
http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html

Original comment by janwilm...@gmail.com on 30 Jul 2012 at 11:21

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Compression of 720Kb MSX diskimages in the age of bigdata and TB's is not 
really worth the trouble. I choose to invest our time in other issues.

Original comment by janwilm...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2012 at 12:11

• Changed state: WontFix

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Fair enough, it's your time.

Note that the reason was not to save space, but to be able to handle existing 
compressed disk images, of which tons exist (e.g. from internet archives or 
cd-roms). This currently means that those compressed disk images need to be 
unzipped all the time before they can be used with the host app, which is quite 
uncomfy.

Original comment by manuel.b...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2012 at 8:35

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Although it is not strictly blocked by issue 15, it should be implemented 
afterwards, because of the design changes needed by issue 15.

Original comment by janwilm...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2013 at 4:21

• Changed state: Accepted
• Now blocked on: #15