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  • The AD&D “Gold Box” games from SSI Inc. stored game text in 6-bit encoding. The first one of these I played was “Champions of Krynn” and the PC release came on 4 360k 5.25 dsdd floppy disks. They actually needed the packing in those days, and couldn’t afford to spent cpu cycles or ram on built in compression.
    I remember opening up the game data files in a file viewer (maybe pc-tools?) and being confounded by the lack of text in the files.