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dmute

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2000 1:00 am
by MattRains
Does anyone know how DMute was programmed? Where did the information about how Dungeon Master works come from? The author mentions the "game source". Does he have it?

I would really like to get more information on how the inner-workings of Dungeon Master but Wayne Holder has not responded to my emails so it would seem the next logical stop is the author of DMute.

Or perhaps this forum? :-)

Any help would be great.

Matt

Re: dmute

Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2000 12:00 am
by Gambit37
George Gilbert is the man you should speak to. He does not have the source code to DM - he simply (?) worked out the data structure over several months if not years of reverse engineering the DAT file format.

Change a byte, test the game, note the result repeat ad infinitum until you start getting an idea of which bytes do what. Then you can start to build up a picture of the structure of the DAT file. It's an extremely long and frustrating process and it's why George deserves huge respect for the time he put into DMute.