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More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 15:22
by RaVeN
There is ShadowCaster by Raven Software based on modified Wolf3D engine, discussions on https://www.doomworld.com/vb/everything ... moddening/

More easy is adding "In Pursuit of Greed" support, source code released. Wolf3d based.

For just info http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/3d-engine-wolf3d

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2016 4:44
by Blzut3
The Raven engine is different enough that it likely warrants its own source port. Most notably ECWolf intends to take advantage of strictly parallel floors and ceilings (permitting potentially simpler stacked plane handling) which supporting the Raven engine games would violate.

Additionally since the Raven engine is just a rendering engine calling it based off the Wolf3D engine is a bit of a stretch regardless.

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 21:21
by 3371-Alpha
Speaking of more game support, do you think you could add support for the Mac version? The Mac version (and derivatives) use a archive (similar to Doom WADs) known as "sets" with all the level and other data contained within.

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:47
by Blzut3
3371-Alpha wrote:do you think you could add support for the Mac version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5eBLxO7MsY

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 6:17
by 3371-Alpha
Excuse me if I sound ignorant, but how do I setup/use that mod?

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 6:56
by Blzut3
If you have a Mac (even a modern one) then it's trivial to setup. Just macbin your game files and load them with a shim file in the latest development version.

Here's a whole thread on the subject (spoiler though: an easy method to get the macbin files without a Mac has yet to actually be found): http://forum.drdteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=56551#p56551 http://forum.drdteam.org/viewtopic.php? ... 4&start=30

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 4:42
by 3371-Alpha
Well I've got the data files extracted, one set file and a folder with a ton of level/episode files. Again, sorry if I sound ignorant but, what's a shim file and where do I obtain it?

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:24
by Blzut3
3371-Alpha wrote:sorry if I sound ignorant
I really don't mean to sound condescending, but the information you seek is in the links I gave in the last post (I linked to two posts in the same thread). Similarly your first question was in the FAQ on the website:
  • Mac Wolfenstein First & Second Encounter - Source Released. Work started.
  • Mac Wolfenstein Third Encounter - No source, but not a whole lot different. Work started.
Although I wouldn't expect anyone to find them since apparently my SEO is pretty bad. You can find information you may find interesting on my weblog:

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 4:22
by 3371-Alpha
Alright, thanks for clearing that up. So basically just have to rename the "Wolfenstein 3Dâ„¢ set" to "wolf3d.bin". That's simple enough. Is the level folder needed though? Also where do I get a font shim?

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 4:28
by Blzut3
Again, the shim was in the thread I linked. I guess I can post the link here as well though: http://maniacsvault.net/ecwolf/files/macshim.pk3

From the levels directory you need the second encounter as wolflvls.bin. The other 6 sets are just mods, so load them like any other mod.

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 16:10
by Gez
Blzut3 wrote:(spoiler though: an easy method to get the macbin files without a Mac has yet to actually be found)
What would be needed to write a tool doing that?

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 18:45
by Blzut3
Gez wrote:What would be needed to write a tool doing that?
Can't speak for the floppy version, but for CDs you would first need to do raw CD IO in order to dump an image of the Mac file system. I don't suspect this would be too difficult to do. Next one would need to read enough HFS in order to find the relevant binary files and their data and resource forks (ECWolf technically only needs the latter). Once you find that, wrap the data into a macbinary container which you can find format details on a link in my Feb 2012 weblog entry.

The linked thread covers HFSExplorer which does the first and second part of that. The issue there is it dumps in AppleDouble format which isn't really suitable for ECWolf (there's nothing technically wrong with just renaming the resource fork file to something reasonable, but then it's no longer a valid AppleDouble which by definition has the resource fork as a hidden file named "._<filenamehere>"). So the simplest thing to do would be to either write a program which converts an AppleDouble to MacBinary or perhaps see if the maintainer of HFSExplorer would take a submission for an option to dump to MacBinary. (As stated in the other thread I would take a compromise on using AppleSingle if necessary, but I think it's more likely to find mods already in MacBinary format since it was more popular at the time.)

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 20:08
by RaVeN
maybe it can be helpful : source port for Blake Stone exist, http://bibendovsky.github.io/bstone/

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 12:44
by Nokiaman
Blzut3 wrote:
3371-Alpha wrote:do you think you could add support for the Mac version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5eBLxO7MsY
Heh, didn't expect this to be my own video :D
Can't wait when MacWolf support is finished.

Re: More Games to support in ECWolf?

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 4:28
by filipetolhuizen
I talked to Les Bird this weekend by e-mail and he seemed to like ECWolf progress. He said he's still looking for the C7 source code, unfortunatelly. Let's hope he finds it soon despite being long lost.