If you find a way to extract the files out of that .dat file (bmp, png and some other formats should be hidden inside it), I will reward you somehow. I really need its content to make the perfect RM2K game that this whole forum will be proud of
You think I'm joking? I'm not. I will assemble some people and attempt to make something VERY spectacular, but you'll see.
Again, I need the file content first
"Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today." - Stephen Wolfram
I don't know where you heard that a DAT file can contain other files i.e. like a ZIP, but last I knew it can't so obviously some info passed hands and got mixed up, because DAT files arent archives, If they were they would be a WinDAT or something for one, just like ZIP and RAR and TAR etc...
Sorry, but this one IS an archive, I know this for a fact this time.
"Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today." - Stephen Wolfram
Hmm...well if the contents are uncompressed, I built a program back years ago that might be capable of ripping windows bitmaps out of it, but I don't have it handy, so I'll see what others say before I go to the trouble of finding it.
It's been so long since I made that program that I don't even remember exactly how it works. :]
--WetWired
The source is a RM2K game I downloaded, and the author decided to remove it from his mirrors. Either way, I can still email it to you people if you're still planning to try, but it shouldn't be neccesary. The only other file you will get is an exe file that reads from the .dat file somehow.
"Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today." - Stephen Wolfram
Mission accomplished. I did it without any tools, but that was tricky as hell :/
The .exe extracted the .dat file to a hidden temporary folder in c:\windows\temp. When you exited the game, the temp files were deleted, so I just ripped them from there.
Lastly, I had to do a major load of changes before it would work properly
But I have it now, I just have to figure out more about its features
"Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today." - Stephen Wolfram
"Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today." - Stephen Wolfram
DAT files can be archives when an exe, usually a "setup" file, is used to extract it... there are no programs made for archiving into DAT you simply have to program it that way.
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