Packfire rulez! Just need to optimise and it's a real Exomizer beater.
Although that is not an esay task, jejeje, PF is designed to make great use of the 68000 registers and addressing modes by one of the best 68000 assembly coders. He help me to optimize my aplib port to 68000 and we were able to shrink at 164 bytes, only one byte more than the z80 version and we're talking of a cpu with the opcodes of a double size in bytes minimum.
What were you doing with Renegade?
I had patched to use the 3 fire buttons joystick that i made a few weeks ago, you can find
here
So... the best PC cruncher is "just" 25% better than the best CPC cruncher. Actually not really much. But once a while it will be needed :-)))
And if you need help to adding at one of your projects only tell me
Jejeje, you know how i'm old school for a few things (the config of my text editor has not changed since the cygnus editor days

) and new school for all my cross developing tools, jejeje.
Out of interest, which version of Packfire were you using? Was it the v1.2h release?
I'm using the last version (1.2h), but the sources of the decruncher has not changed from a few versions ago, only the cruncher to improve the compression and fix bugs
EDIT: Using 1.2g, my two test screens (AMPSKULL.SCR & MASKFACE.SCR) do pack better with PackFire than all of the other external packers. Is there a Z80 decompressor available yet?
Remember that i only have converted the tiny mode (params -t when you are crunching and with that the crunched sizes are similar to exomizer). I didn't convert the large mode (is a variant of
LZMA, tiny is a
LZ how aplib and exomizer) because it would be so slow that it would not had practical use in CPC... it's even slow in 68000 and there, it's using every trick in the hat.