Screen Antics (Johny Castaway)

[rulaman]

Does anyone have any information about the RESOURCE.001 format (and the RESOURCE.MAP) for Screen Antics?

[gumby]

A nice diversion, here's what I've got so far:

The map file differs from an SCI0 map which uses 6 byte entries.  Johnny castaway uses 8 byte entries.  The last 2 (or 3?) bytes of each entry represent the offset of the resource in RESOURCE.001.

On the surface, each resource in the RESOURCE.001 seem to begin with a file name.

[Collector]

Dynamix borrowed certain things from Sierra like drivers and resource archiving, but only did a couple of SCI games. Hence you will see certain similarities between Dynamix games and SCI, but most of these are usually superficial.

[rulaman]

Thanks for yours answers so far. I will have a look into it.

Edit: I found a site with the resources explained.
http://code.google.com/p/screenantics/wiki/ResourceFileStructure

[rulaman]

So, I extracted the resources, but now I need the huffman decomp algo.
As I edited in my last post, I found a good resource page.

[gumby]

I don't think that Studio or Companion can decompress Huffman resources.  The Huffman algorithm is documented in the SCI Specifications document here:

http://sciwiki.sierrahelp.com/index.php?title=SCI_Specifications:_Chapter_2_-_Resource_files#Decompression_algorithm_HUFFMAN

[rulaman]

That's good to know, but I have the resources.
On the page I linked are sources and resources. (Found out recently. Thanks for the Huffman-Link.)
I'm happy now, an d when I'm in the mood, I do something with them.

[Collector]

Let us know.