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Barf PACker ▀7 (c) 2000 BARF DSD
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New versions are available at www.drgsoft.com, and later (september 2K)
they'll be at www.barfhappy.com. New betas are made at the once-per-week rate.
Complete releases are made at each 10 Betas.
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This program is 100% free! It isn't open source and will never be an unpacker.
There isn't any help file - i don't have time to do it - if you want to make
one, feel free. If you want a new feature i haven't though to, look at fourth
section of this doc.
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IF YOU CAN'T LAUNCH THE PROGRAM, YOU MUST DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL VB6 RUNTIME
LIBRARY AT WWW.DRGSOFT.COM
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Disclaimer: This program was created to design packs(unique files with several
files and structure definitions within them). Even if packs
complies with commercial games, you must be aware that some co.s
prohibit modifications of their own packs (ex: Alien vs Predator).
By using this program, you reccon you will stay in the legality
and reject to make BARF DSD responsible for any damages and/or
law violations involved with Barf Packer
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This file structure:
1) Version history
2) Pack supports
3) Wanna help ?
4) Limitations
= (1) = Version history ======================================================
RELEASE: BETA 7 Venus 3 (RC 1 Private Version 33)
INTERFACE: 0 BETA 3 rev. 8
PACKs SET: 0 BETA 3 rev. 4
Revision history (from BETA 5)
--BETA 7 -- 08/23/00
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+-- Interface
| +- Wizard updated with Dune2's, Hand of fate and Lands of
| | lore paks support
| +- Removed some Listview oddities
| +- Change dest is now off while nodirs pack is selected
| +- Changed some music stuffs
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+-- Pack set modified
| |
| +-- PAK (Dune 2)
| | +- Added !!! (Untested with original game)
| |
| +-- PAK (Hand of Fate, Lands of Lore)
| | +- Added !!! (Untested with original game)
| |
| +-- TLK (Hand of Fate, Lands of lore)
| +- Added !!! (Untested with original game)
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+-- Multi-Language
+- List view's header translated
+- Japanese and spanish removed
+- Language modifications on-the-fly
--BETA 6 --
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+-- Interface
| +- Wizard updated with BOX (Lemmings Revolution) support
| +- Small bugfix in progress bars
| +- Large icons 4 listview
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+-- Pack set modified
| |
| +-- BOX (Lemmings Revolution)
| | +- Added !!! (fully compliant with unpackers & seems ok with game)
| |
| +-- FAR (The Sims)
| +- Bugfixes in display
| +- A bit optimized
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+-- Multi-Language
+- Engine created (not used 4 now, but is present)
Features: Interface & Error messages in:***=Full,**=Partial,*=Poor
- English ***
- French ***
- Spanish **
- Japanese * only kanas, sorry but unicode dislikes VB :(
--BETA 5 --
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+-- Interface
| +- Wizard added
| +- Music added ! ^-^
| +- You can now delete root directory
| +- You can now copy/paste root directory
| +- File existence checks has been removed ! - missing files will be ignored
| +- Progress bar added for new directory
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+-- Pack set modified
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+-- VP (Conflict Freespace 1&2)
| +- Now compliant with Dragon Unpacker (only latest public beta)
| +- Can now have subdirectories
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+-- GRP (Duke 3D engine)
+- Small bug-fix in entry name restructuration
= (2) = Pack supports ========================================================
[n% compliance!]->compliance with game and thus with unpackers
[n% compliance?]->compliance with unpackers
- PAK : Quake 1, Quake 2, Half Life, etc [100% compliant!]
(note: QUAKE 3 PK3 are only uncompressed ZIP files. To repack Q3:
zip the files without compression and rename the file to .PK3,
that's all !)
- FAR : The Sims and maybe later MAXIS games [100% compliant!]
- POD : Terminal Velocity [unknown compliance!] [100% compliant?]
old dos pack, no directories, short names
- FFL : Alien versus Predator [50% compliant!] [100% compliant?]
i can't reproduce some oddities in structure, it will s/times work
and sometimes won't
- GOB : Dark Forces [unknown compliance!] [100% compliant?]
old dos pack, no directories, short names
- GRP : Duke Nukem 3D [100% compliant!]
old dos pack, no directories, short names
- VP : Descent - Conflict Freespace 1&2 [unknown compliance!] [100% compliant?]
- SND : Heroes of the Might and Magic 3 [unknown compliance!] [100% compliant?]
sound banks, no directories
- BOX : Lemmings Revolution [100% compliant!]
- PAK : Dune2 [unknown compliance!] [100% compliant ?]
- PAK : Hand of Fate, Lands of Lore [unknown compliance!] [100% compliant ?]
- TLK : Hand of Fate, Lands of Lore [unknown compliance!] [100% compliant ?]
I know it ain't enough ! I'll soon add Lemmings Revolution packs and some Dreamcast packs.
c wanna help if you want more !
If you want to unpack packs go to www.drgsoft.com and download
Dragon Unpacker !
= (3) = Wanna help ? =========================================================
You can help in following cases:
You know at 100% (no unknown fields) another pack structure ?
You want it in this packer ?
Feel free to mail !
Bpacker@Barfhappy.com subject: Bpacker support
You want a feature i haven't thought to in this packer ?
Feel free to mail !
Bpacker@Barfhappy.com subject: Bpacker feature
Please, report any bugs/oddities/errors/non compliance at
Bpacker@Barfhappy.com subject: Bpacker
Any mail with other subject is automatically deleted !
Any mail with attached file(s) other to .chm is automatically deleted !
= (4) = Limitations ==========================================================
Known limitations/bugs
- YOU MUSN'T FORGET A FILE IN PAKs OF COMMERCIAL GAMES OR ELSE THESE GAMES
WON'T WORK PROPERLY ANYMORE
- pack can't be > 1 GB or else you'll get a crash due to size report (32bit)
- Alien Versus Predator compliance isn't at 100% completed due to oddities
in directory structure (but if you just extract with an unpacker,modify a
file and repack just after it, everything should be ok)
- Save often your project to avoid crashes (they often occur when mem<48MB)
- File existence checks has been removed to speed up process but if a file
is missing the program will crash or file won't be game-compatible
- There isn't any unpacker within Barf Packer, and there'll never be !