http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=User%3APeter_Swinkels 2026-04-18T17:39:30Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.19.2 http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Peter_Swinkels&diff=17826&oldid=prev 2014-06-11T12:59:47Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 12:59, 11 June 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>I used to and (some times still) play a lot of MS-DOS games and have also tried to reverse engineer and modify them. Programming languages I'm familiar with: Quick Basic, Visual Basic(.NET), assembly language, HTML, JavaScript/VBScript and some C/C++.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>I used to and (some times still) play a lot of MS-DOS games and have also tried to reverse engineer and modify them. Programming languages I'm familiar with: Quick Basic, Visual Basic(.NET), assembly language, HTML, JavaScript/VBScript and some C/C++.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>I have almost completely reverse engineered Cartooners' (year 1988/1989, developer: IDTA, publisher: Electronic Arts, MS-DOS version) actor file (*.act) format and made a program that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">import </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">export </del>actor templates. See: [[Cartooners actor file]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>I have almost completely reverse engineered Cartooners' (year 1988/1989, developer: IDTA, publisher: Electronic Arts, MS-DOS version) actor file (*.act) format and made a program that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">imports </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exports </ins>actor templates. See: [[Cartooners actor file]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Right now I have also made a start at analysing Cartooners' music (*.mus) files. What I already know about the *.mus file format can be found at: [[Electronic Arts MUS]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Right now I have also made a start at analysing Cartooners' music (*.mus) files. What I already know about the *.mus file format can be found at: [[Electronic Arts MUS]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. I've little experience with wiki's and had to reformat the contents of a plain text file to put on this site. I might clean it up later on.</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Peter Swinkels http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Peter_Swinkels&diff=17825&oldid=prev 2014-06-11T12:58:08Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 12:58, 11 June 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>I used to and (some times still) play a lot of MS-DOS games and have also tried to reverse engineer and modify them. 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Peter Swinkels http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Peter_Swinkels&diff=17823&oldid=prev 2014-06-11T12:19:16Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 12:19, 11 June 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[http://www.euronet.nl/users/swinkels http://www.euronet.nl/users/swinkels]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[http://www.euronet.nl/users/swinkels http://www.euronet.nl/users/swinkels]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Alright, I moved the Cartooners *.mus (music) format information to a wiki: [[Electronic Arts MUS]]. Since I've little experience with wiki's it's <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">probably </del>a bit sloppy <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">looking</del>. I'll likely try to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>clean it up a little later.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Alright, I moved the Cartooners *.mus (music) format information to a wiki: [[Electronic Arts MUS]]. Since I've little experience with wiki's it's a bit sloppy. I'll likely try to clean it up a little later.</div></td></tr> </table>

Peter Swinkels http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Peter_Swinkels&diff=17822&oldid=prev 2014-06-11T12:18:44Z

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Peter Swinkels http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Peter_Swinkels&diff=17821&oldid=prev 2014-06-11T12:17:27Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 12:17, 11 June 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>In an attempt to organize all the information I found and added myself, I made a minimal website which can be found at:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>In an attempt to organize all the information I found and added myself, I made a minimal website which can be found at:</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[http://www.euronet.nl/users/swinkels http://www.euronet.nl/users/swinkels]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[http://www.euronet.nl/users/swinkels http://www.euronet.nl/users/swinkels]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Alright, I moved the Cartooners *.mus (music) format information to a wiki.</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Peter Swinkels http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Peter_Swinkels&diff=17765&oldid=prev 2014-06-08T14:57:05Z

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Peter Swinkels http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Peter_Swinkels&diff=17704&oldid=prev 2014-06-04T17:42:40Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 17:42, 4 June 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>I used to and (some times still) play a lot of MS-DOS games and have also tried to reverse engineer and modify them. Programming languages I'm familiar with: Quick Basic, Visual Basic(.NET), assembly language, HTML, JavaScript/VBScript and some C/C++.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>I used to and (some times still) play a lot of MS-DOS games and have also tried to reverse engineer and modify them. Programming languages I'm familiar with: Quick Basic, Visual Basic(.NET), assembly language, HTML, JavaScript/VBScript and some C/C++.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>I have almost completely reverse <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">engineerd </del>Cartooners' (year 1988/1989, developer: IDTA, publisher: Electronic Arts, MS-DOS version) actor file (*.act) format and made a program that import and export actor templates. It can be downloaded at: &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>I have almost completely reverse <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">engineered </ins>Cartooners' (year 1988/1989, developer: IDTA, publisher: Electronic Arts, MS-DOS version) actor file (*.act) format and made a program that import and export actor templates. It can be downloaded at: &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?759753-Cartooners-Actor-Viewer-export-and-import-actors VBForums post]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?759753-Cartooners-Actor-Viewer-export-and-import-actors VBForums post]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> </table>

Peter Swinkels http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Peter_Swinkels&diff=17703&oldid=prev 2014-06-04T17:39:20Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 17:39, 4 June 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?759753-Cartooners-Actor-Viewer-export-and-import-actors VBForums post]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?759753-Cartooners-Actor-Viewer-export-and-import-actors VBForums post]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Right now I have also made a start at analysing Cartooners' music (*.mus) files. Unfortunately I know very little about MIDI music and the specifics of how soundcards work. Although there is a lot of information in this regard on the internet, I could still use any help offered. A document describing what I already know about the *.mus file format can be downloaded at: [http://www.euronet.nl/users/swinkels/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">cartmusf</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">zip cartmusf</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">zip</del>]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Right now I have also made a start at analysing Cartooners' music (*.mus) files. Unfortunately I know very little about MIDI music and the specifics of how soundcards work. Although there is a lot of information in this regard on the internet, I could still use any help offered. A document describing what I already know about the *.mus file format can be downloaded at: [http://www.euronet.nl/users/swinkels/ .<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mus (music) file format information</ins>.]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Alright, I just made some progress. It appears that the last byte in a .mus file controls whether or not the music is restarted after the last note has been played. (0x80 = Restart the music. 0x81 = Stop playing the music.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Alright, I just made some progress. It appears that the last byte in a .mus file controls whether or not the music is restarted after the last note has been played. (0x80 = Restart the music. 0x81 = Stop playing the music.)</div></td></tr> </table>

Peter Swinkels http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Peter_Swinkels&diff=17386&oldid=prev 2014-05-12T13:58:05Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 13:58, 12 May 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Jump </del>to: <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">navigation</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">search </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I used </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and (some times still) play a lot of MS-DOS games and have also tried to reverse engineer and modify them. 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Peter Swinkels http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Peter_Swinkels&diff=17385&oldid=prev 2014-05-12T13:57:22Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 13:57, 12 May 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I used </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and (some times still) play a lot of MS-DOS games and have also tried to reverse engineer and modify them. 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It can be downloaded at: </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>I <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">used to and (some times still) play a lot of MS-DOS games and </ins>have <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">also tried to </ins>reverse <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">engineer and modify them. Programming languages I</ins>'<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">m familiar with</ins>: <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Quick Basic</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Visual Basic</ins>(.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">NET</ins>)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, assembly language, HTML, JavaScript/VBScript </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">some C</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">C++</ins>. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http:</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vbforums.com/showthread.php?759753-Cartooners-Actor-Viewer-export-and-import-actors VBForums post]</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Right now </del>I have <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">also made a start at analysing </del>Cartooners' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">music </del>(*.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mus</del>) <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">files. Unfortunately I know very little about MIDI music </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the specifics of how soundcards work. Although there is a lot of information in this regard on the internet, I could still use any help offered. 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Peter Swinkels