meh. it would have saved a lot of problems. ohwell. i'll throw that idea + code out.

I am thinking about using zip files. zip files automatically give you CRC's as meta data, and one could scan the header and pull them out with little to no overhead for detection. plus its all nicely bundled in 1 file instead of many files... i originally had md5 going but it is sheer overkill for s...

The old legend stuff is semi zorkish, its not a virtual machine its all hardcoded I think they all used a common code base (I looked at hacking them at one time). the if archive has a tool for pulling the vocab from timequest (but it does not work with later games). i have no idea about their post t...

I'd love to RE wasteland or a generic goldbox engine for por/cab/ssb/etc...

The problem with RE'ing these old rpg's, most of the time they were not scripted, and the data files are just graphics, so all the game logic is buried in the exec...

BASS also has some RNC algorithm afaik, I wonder if that is coincidence... Yes, probably. RNC is a third-party compression algorithm/library that was used by some games around that time (mid 90es). Think of it as the zlib of that time :) @Del: You can find decompression code for RNC method 2 in the...

also, DDP is known to be buggy, we never really matched the AGI version, its not 2.089, 2.272 or 2.440... its somehwere in between, but nobody has a 'true' ibm version, all the PC versions are the atari st version with a 2.272 interp which is incorrect... i am checking out the trunk as I type so I w...

well I joined up, since if I'm gonna hack on sarien (since I was working on sarien2...) I migth as well hack on this versions since I was refactoring the same codebase anyway... looking at the agi todo list; I dont know about using scummvm wordlist type stuff for keyboardless entry, i think somethin...