Realia Spacemaker

Realia Spacemaker (or just Spacemaker) is an executable compression utility for DOS, developed by Realia. It was possibly the first executable compression utility for DOS to be released.

It compresses COM files (to COM), and EXE files (to EXE or COM).

Identification
(Only version 1.03 and 1.06 have been evaluated.)

Compressed COM files apparently start with bytes, and have ASCII "" at offset 18.

Compressed EXE files apparently have at offset 512, and ASCII "" at offset 530.

Software

 * Spacemaker v1.03
 * Spacemaker v1.06:
 * → DOSEXE Executable Tools Pack → packers/spacemaker.106-realia.rar
 * At Vetusware

Links

 * Realia SpaceMaker, at the OS/2 Museum
 * SpaceMaker Update
 * Advertisement in PC Magazine, Jan. 1983, p. 417