Well.. this might not be all that interesting to most people, but I was playing around with the old Kextract and Kgroup tools since it has become abandonware.
They can be used to group and extract files from a single group file with your own custom extension.
I have attached a little program test I was doing that extracts a jpeg image from a file called Resource.dat and then pastes it to screen.
#include "DarkGDK.h"
void DarkGDK ( void )
{
dbSyncOn ( );
dbSyncRate ( 60 );
dbExecuteFile ("KEXTRACT.exe","Resource.dat Smile.jpg","",1);
dbLoadImage("Smile.jpg", 2);
while ( LoopGDK ( ) )
{
dbPasteImage(2,0,0);
dbSync ( );
}
return;
}
the idea being that if you extract all your media when the game loads and then delete it all when it exits. It was just an idea to make an easy resource file. That is if you can hide the extract tool or something.
EDIT: I have found the source code for these tools. I know there is a way to access files directly from the archive without extracting them. So i am going to try and copy the code to make a simple game resource file archive system - if anyone has made their own game resource file system, please let me know
