File list
The MSDOS version contains the following files:
- 47
- Probably the guild images
- b0.huf
- Image for House type 0, compressed, using CGA palette
- b1.huf
- Image for House type 1, compressed, using CGA palette
- b2.huf
- Image for House type 2, compressed, using CGA palette
- b3.huf
- Image for House type 3, compressed, using CGA palette
- bard.exe
- The executable, can be used to locate game strings, other game data
is difficult to obtain as the exe file is compressed (Does anybody
know the decompression alg? Otherwise memdumps can be used to access
that data; use the debug version of dosbox and the do a memdumpbin)
- bardscr
- The main game screen, compressed, using CGA palette, the image is
color separated: first come all blue pixel values, then all green
pixel values, then red, and then the one for highlight.
- bardtit
- The title screen. Format is the same as bardscr.
- bigpic
- Indexed/compressed file containing all the monsters, images inside
buildings, probably also city pictures except the big images of the
four house types.
- cga_scr
- Not checked yet
- city.nam
- Contains an index to the street names. Compressed.
- city.pat
- Contains an index to the house numbers and specials in Skara Brae.
- citypics.bin
- Not checked yet.
- color.cmp
- No clue.
- color.rgb
- No clue.
- comp
- No clue.
- comp_tit
- No clue.
- dpics0
Contains the dungeon pictures for the standard dungeons. Image data
is partitioned with partitioning like:
- [(56, 88), (192, 86), (120, 54), (80, 33), (48, 17), (16, 40),
- (32, 88), (48, 85), (32, 52), (16, 31), (16, 15), (48, 32),
(40, 18), (80, 8)]
- dpics1
- Dungeon pictures for the dungeon levels in Mangar’s tower. Otherwise
like dpics0 (endianess is a bit different for the first two longs
here, than in dpics0 and dpics2
- dpics2
- Dungeon pictures for the dungeon levels in the Catacombs. Otherwise
like dpics0.
- graphics.drv
- Probably uninteresting
- icons.bin
- Not checked.
- items
- Contains the items available in Garth’s equipment store. The value
of byte x corresponds to the number of items Garth has to sell of
item type x. A value of 0xFF means an infinte supply.
- levs
- Contains the levels. File is indexed and compressed. Longer
description needs to be given elsewhere.
- rgb
- Not checked.
- rgb_tit
- Not checked.
- tdy
- Not checked.
- tdy_scr
- Not checked.
- tdy_tit
- Not checked.