Hi,
colowin uses different Resources (stored in the dlls), that are way easier to extract, but don't have the dos-nostalgic-look .
Anyway, thanks to the scummvm-project and its support for M4/MADS, we were able to decompress the .ss and .pik files, and I made a simple java-based image viewer.
The link above leads to the commit that actually removed MADS-Support from scummvm, but feel free to take a look at these files, decompression and run-length-decoding of images is all there.
So here's the Image Viewer, extract the .zip and start it with something like:
Of course you would need to install java first
It should be pretty self-explanatory, just open a file (.pik or .ss) and there you are.
The left pane is debug-only information about the compressed file structure.
If you are opening a .ss file, try clicking on the prev/next image buttons to see all images in the file.
Please let me know if something does not work, or if there are some features you would like to see implemented.
Regards, Thomas
colowin uses different Resources (stored in the dlls), that are way easier to extract, but don't have the dos-nostalgic-look .
Anyway, thanks to the scummvm-project and its support for M4/MADS, we were able to decompress the .ss and .pik files, and I made a simple java-based image viewer.
The link above leads to the commit that actually removed MADS-Support from scummvm, but feel free to take a look at these files, decompression and run-length-decoding of images is all there.
So here's the Image Viewer, extract the .zip and start it with something like:
Code:
java -jar JColoViewer.jar
It should be pretty self-explanatory, just open a file (.pik or .ss) and there you are.
The left pane is debug-only information about the compressed file structure.
If you are opening a .ss file, try clicking on the prev/next image buttons to see all images in the file.
Please let me know if something does not work, or if there are some features you would like to see implemented.
Regards, Thomas