Do not look at LASER with remaining eye!| Ouch my eye!
Or so they say. Well in this case, it may be that a picture is worth a thousand hours of looking at raw data. In my last post we decoded the RLE data stream that was output from the LZW compressed …| Ouch my eye!
Time to stop procrastinating, and distracting myself with other formats, and time to put the MicroProse PIC file format to rest – at least with what we know about it so far. This post serves to act…| Ouch my eye!
We have some unfinished business with regards to the MicroProse CAT file format, it’s time to start wrapping things up. The last time when we looked at the CAT file format we determined the f…| Ouch my eye!
I decided to take a brief interlude from the MicroProse PIC file format we have been reverse engineering over the last while. In this post we will look at another MicroProse file format, the SPC fi…| Ouch my eye!
We have some unfinished business to do in light of the discoveries we made last time. I now no longer trust my prior results with the RLE encoder, so we need to go back and revisit that result. Las…| Ouch my eye!
Posts related to my efforts in reverse engineering the MicroProse .PIC file format used to store the visual assets for many of their PC/DOS based games in the late 1980's and early 1990's| Ouch my eye!
I’ve interrupting my planned post to make this one, as this potentially has an effect on that post. Yesterday after my post about additional titles went live, one of my readers, who wishes to…| Ouch my eye!
We last left off having uncovered a dew more mysteries of the MicroProse PIC file format. We wrote a tool to examine PIC files to try and determine which version of the file they were, after some r…| Ouch my eye!
Well looks like the break from the PIC file format didn’t last long. My last post we were wrapping up with the decoding of the MicroProse CAT file format when we stumbled upon what appears to…| Ouch my eye!
With luck this will be the final post on the Bellard-LZSS compressor, allowing us to sign off on the last piece of the puzzle required to write a PIC encoder for the Railroad Tycoon Deluxe (RRDX) v…| Ouch my eye!
In my last post, we wrapped up writing our Bellard-LZSS compressor, to facilitate eventually writing a PIC93 encoder for Railroad Tycoon Deluxe (RRDX) from MicroProse. In this post we will take the…| Ouch my eye!
This post is not what I thought it would end up being about. I had plans, but it seems fate, and the dark corners of my brain, had a different path set out for me. You see after I wrapped up my las…| Ouch my eye!
Maybe not rewriting it, but correcting our recording of it. In my last post we analyzed the assets for a large number of titles from MicroProse that expanded our understanding of the sub variants a…| Ouch my eye!
Several posts back we looked at some other MicroProse titles and discovered that the PIC file format has evolved over the years with various titles. In this post we’re going to look at a few …| Ouch my eye!
I may or may not have rage quit at the end of the last post. I had spent so much time debugging and getting it working only to have this one file break everything… again! It was late, I was tired, …| Ouch my eye!
Now that we have our decoding of the PIC images up to a well-defined point for F15-SE2, it’s time to look and see where else MicroProse has used this format. As we know from the DarkLands doc…| Ouch my eye!
In a previous post, we left off having validated that all the parts we created for the pipeline required to decode a PIC file worked. While it was helpful in testing/debugging each part to have it …| Ouch my eye!
In my last post we left off with having a basic LZW decompressor up and running, now it’s time for tackling the RLERun-Length Encodingencoding of the data that the LZW comp…| Ouch my eye!
By the end of my last post we had established that the MicroProse PIC file format likely uses LZWLempel-Ziv-Welch compression, on top of RLERun-Length Encoding&nb…| Ouch my eye!
As we left off in my last entry, we had determined that the format was not the Pictor PC Paint .PIC file format as I had hypothesized. One of the first things to do is to search the Internet to see…| Ouch my eye!
Okay maybe the end of my last post was a little evil. But I swear it wasn’t just a gimmick to get you to come back and read more. I knew things weren’t perfect, and I wanted to separate…| Ouch my eye!