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[OneGeekArmy]

My goodness! What's even more shocking than the incredible links and info presented by @eric in the opening post is that I didn't even notice this thread until today! Yikes!

I'm especially having fun with Raiders of the Lost Icon. Here's a screenshot showing an icon extract I made...

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And the Export options are fabulous!

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@OneGeekArmy is awesome!
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One thing I did find though is that the *.usdz file exported (of the Picaso Mac above) was only 1,499 bytes, and when I double-clicked it, Xcode launched, but Xcode shows it to be blank...

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I then went to an online USDZ file viewer, but it too showed the exported file as being blank.

There is also a *.txt file that was exported, but despite being 4,160 bytes, it too is blank.

The PNG & SVG exported just fine, however.

I've attached a ZIP archive of all the exported files.

Sorry @JDW, I just saw your post. Thanks for the kind words as always

Strange you're seeing empty contents for the txt and USDZ formats. I'll take a look in a bit (a couple of neat things need finishing up first).

 

[Mu0n]

I don't own a modern mac, but I would love it if someone spent 10 minutes looking for art assets from the Archon game:

https://macintoshgarden.org/games/archon-the-light-and-the-dark

and while I have your attention, why not Studio Session:

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/studio-session

 

[JDW]

Not sure if it is just me or just my Mac, but when I clicked the Archon link to Macintosh Garden in the previous post, I got a 403 error. I then clicked it a second time and it worked. I then tried to download DL#1 and got another 403 error. I went back and clicked the same DL#1 link again, and then it downloaded. Server issue on the Garden, or just me? @fogWraith

Anyway, @Mu0n ...

You can use Basilisk II to not only mount the disk image (DL#1 at the Garden), but also examine it via ResEdit, as shown here:

No graphics that I can see. The other resources are dialog boxes and code.

But I then used Raiders of the Lost Icon from @OneGeekArmy , left it in Black-and-White, and took a lot of time to scroll through, and look what it found...

So I suggest you download that app and give it a try. Works on modern Macs just fine.

 

[Mu0n]

So I suggest you download that app and give it a try. Works on modern Macs just fine.

Yeah, Archon is from the very earliest years when game programmers were just doing straight assembly and using their closer-to-metal skills with binary game data, rather than adhering to Apple's application design guidelines, which was fleshed out later.

As I posted above, I don't own a modern mac, therefore I can't use Raiders of the Lost Icon. It looks really useful and simple to use, but I sit here with a PC, 13th gen Intel machine.

 

[JDW]

...I sit here with a PC, 13th gen Intel machine.

@OneGeekArmy seems to be saying that his Raiders of the Lost Icon software requires Catalina or newer. So long as he doesn't up the minimum OS requirement, that means you could get yourself a late 2012 Mac Mini (Catalina compatible) for under a hundred bucks on EBAY, then just connect your own monitor and keyboard. You'd get the benefit of a Mac, and you could install Windows on it too!

 

[Mu0n]

Thanks for your input. I guess I'll give up on this.

 

[JDW]

@Mu0n
Just to confirm, you were hoping to have all the Archon game icons extracted?

 

[Mu0n]

@JDW , It turns out the sprite binary resource list (SHAP resource) is not encoded, or compressed, and can be read by a simple enough piece of C code I just wrote, and just CopyBit'ed on screen:

 

[fogWraith]

Not sure if it is just me or just my Mac, but when I clicked the Archon link to Macintosh Garden in the previous post, I got a 403 error. I then clicked it a second time and it worked. I then tried to download DL#1 and got another 403 error. I went back and clicked the same DL#1 link again, and then it downloaded. Server issue on the Garden, or just me?

It's not just you, it's part of the updates I've had to do because of bots and scrapers going from manageable levels to ~insanity, I'm still working on it from time to time to resolve it completely. So for the time being, a "first visit" or shift from one vhost to the other "may" contain traces of 403.