This is a mirror of Rob Northen Computing's (RNC) ProPack compression tool, which handles the RNC compression format created by Rob Northen in 1991.
This is the official RNC 2.14 package, containing a packer DOS binary and assembly decoding modules for several platforms.
For the manual, read PROPACK.DOC. I have also added a plain text version of the manual, PROPACK.TXT.
This is a GitHub repo. The package is also available elsewhere:
- Jeff Frohwein's Game Boy website
- Aminet (note that although this page claims it hosts v2.08, it's the exact same package as this)
- MultimediaWiki's article about RNC ProPack.
- Sega Retro has a good article on how RNC works.
- Decompiled source of RNC ProPack: lab313ru/rnc_propack_source
LIST - text file with list of package files
PPIBM.EXE - file packer (286 version)
PPAMI.EXE - file packer (amiga version)
PROPACK.DOC - PRO-PACK manual (referred to as PP.DOC in LIST)
PROPACK.TXT - Plain text version of PRO-PACK manual (not part of original archive)
SOURCE (dir) - Assembler unpack source files
IBMPC (dir)
RNC_1.ASM - 8086 Method 1
RNC_2.ASM - 8086 Method 2
MC68000 (dir)
RNC_1C.S - MC68000 Method 1 Compact Version (consoles)
RNC_2C.S - MC68000 Method 2 Compact Version (consoles)
RNC_1.S - MC68000 Method 1
RNC_2.S - MC68000 Method 2
GAMEBOY (dir)
RNC_2.S - Z80 Gameboy Method 2
SUPERNES (dir)
RNC_1.S - 65816 Method 1
RNC_2.S - 65816 Method 2
LYNX (dir)
RNC.MAC - RNC macros
RNC_1.SRC - 65C02 Atari Lynx Method 1
RNC_2.SRC - 65C02 Atari Lynx Method 2
MIPS R4300
RNC_1.ASM - Mips R4300 Method 1