Hacking On Space

[Lightfoot]

There's a strange man who runs a blog that seems to like us very much...



Visit him here.

You might learn something. Then again your mind may melt into a puddle of bits and bytes and need to be recompiled.

-Light'

[hoppo]

hi

I used to used to do a bit of hex editing back in the day.

I have a couple of questions . . .

I was intrigued to see this blog pop up - but it's now set to private. Does anyone have a contact for the guy running it?

I've fired the game up again to try my hand at a particular custom paint job, and have been trying to locate screengrabs I made of vehicle textures in file called goodies.zip associated with my custom paint guide ( https://web.archive.org/web/20010813045 ... hoppos.htm )

Does anyone have a copy of this?

Cached images on google from the hackingonspace blog, suggest he does or did, as this is part of it : http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--U401qEb1YE/V ... 36-sml.png

many thanks, and any help greatly appreciated

hoppo

[tonyPick]

Uh - that's me.

The private thing is GDPR paranoia, after I got a long old message from Google about it - I need to read the notification, shut down comments and go find a disclaimer, but haven't had the time, so I just set it to private until I do that.

Should be back up next week, assuming I get a moment to look at it. Yeah, that’s unnecessarily paranoid, but hey.

If you just want the format info the links should still work, so going to https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw6Bi ... U42ZnVXOEk should get you the format docco.For code Erik's https://github.com/r1sc/Open76 is probably the place to go for state of the art parsing.

Cheers,
T.

[hoppo]

Thanks so much Tony that's great. Totally understand the caution, and looking forward to it reappearing!

Do you have a copy of the goodies.zip file with all the .vqms screen-grabbed as .bmp?

hoppo