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Grabber.exe compiled with Allegro 3.1 |
anto80
Member #3,230
February 2003
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Hello, Does anyone still got a copy of Grabber.exe compiled with Allegro 3.x (located in allegro\tools\grabber.exe) Thank you so much in advance. Question: Why ? ___________ |
beoran
Member #12,636
March 2011
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I once salvaged data from a 3.x game with a 4.x grabber and it mostly works using the grabber utility. Be sure to make a backup of the .dat file just in case... |
anto80
Member #3,230
February 2003
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I did backups. What I tried is to open with Grabber 4 (ie: the grabber.exe compiled with Allegro 4.x) a dat file previously created with Grabber 3 (the grabber.exe compiled with Allegro 3.x) This "corruption" happens only if the DAT file contains fonts. That's why I would like to find a copy of Grabber 3. Thank you ___________ |
Peter Hull
Member #1,136
March 2001
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Let's party like it's 1999! Pete
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Peter Hull said: Let's party like it's 1999! The image looks more like something from 1982, but whatever... Quote: Allegro 3.1.2 compiled with DJGPP/gcc 4.7.3 What did you have to tweak to manage that? They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
Peter Hull
Member #1,136
March 2001
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Arthur Kalliokoski said: What did you have to tweak to manage that? More than I anticipated
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anto80
Member #3,230
February 2003
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Thank you so much! I will let you know if it solves my problem! [Edit] I think I will load the dat file using grabber 4, export all items. ___________ |
StevenVI
Member #562
July 2000
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If you have access to the original source code, I believe you can recompile with Allegro 4 with minimal (or maybe no?) changes. (The v3 to v4 switch was so long ago that I could be mistaken on this one though.) That might be an easier solution to your problem. It's been a long time since I've worked with Allegro's datafiles, so my memory is hazy. But I believe that you want to avoid changing the ordering of the contents, as that will render it corrupt from the point of view of your pre-compiled program. __________________________________________________ |
Audric
Member #907
January 2001
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If you keep trying with the grabber, be sure to run it in the right color depth, according to your needs. Have you tried with the dat.exe utility instead ? It may let you do your changes, even if the problem is still not explained. Troubleshooting may be easier by loading+saving the datafile, and performing a binary diff : The file format is not supposed to have changed, so the first byte where there is a difference is already a problem. |
anto80
Member #3,230
February 2003
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Here is my "progression" so far...
I assume that, to try DAT utility solution, I'll need DAT3 (DAT compiled with Allegro 3.12) Can someone provide me such exe please ? ___________ |
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