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Latest revision as of 14:54, 24 February 2024
KENS (short for Kosinski, Enigma, Nemesis, and Saxman) is a software library that was originally created by Magus, which provides compressors and decompressors for the aforementioned four compression formats. The Sega Data Compressor is a frontend for KENS, which is also made by Magus.
KENS is licensed under the LGPL v2.1 and distributed as a set of dynamic link libraries. This is done to simplify the process of updating programs to newer versions of the library: being a collection of dynamically-linked binaries, only the DLL files need to be replaced, avoiding the need to modify or update the programs themselves.
After the release of v1.4 RC1, in 2007, kram1024 officially provided an autotools-based version of KENS with cleaned-up code and command line tools. At that point, Magus retired from KENS development and handed control of the project over to kram1024.
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