Torsten Giebl wrote:
It would be cool, if every Library for SDL had virtual Functions. With virtual Functions i mean
Functions that load Pictures, Wave Files … from memory, instead of loading them from Disk.
Lets go into the past :=)
At the time MIDAS was the Nr. 1 SoundSystem, the most demopeople said:
“MIDAS is cool but, i have to save Modules as normal “.MOD” Files and so
everybody can rip them.Even if i encode them, at the End i have to decode them to a TEMP-
Directory before using them.”
As far as I remember this was not a restriction from MIDAS, I once wrote
a replacement for the MIDAS filehandling code that could read from a
compressed/encrypted datafile without needing to decode to a TEMP
directory…—
Jeroen Janssen
“Jeroen Janssen” schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3AD73BF8.A7EA70FA at darius.demon.nl…
Torsten Giebl wrote:
It would be cool, if every Library for SDL had virtual Functions. With virtual Functions i mean
Functions that load Pictures, Wave Files … from memory, instead of loading them from Disk.
Lets go into the past :=)
At the time MIDAS was the Nr. 1 SoundSystem, the most demopeople said:
“MIDAS is cool but, i have to save Modules as normal “.MOD” Files and so
everybody can rip them.Even if i encode them, at the End i have to decode them to a TEMP-
Directory before using them.”
As far as I remember this was not a restriction from MIDAS, I once wrote
a replacement for the MIDAS filehandling code that could read from a
compressed/encrypted datafile without needing to decode to a TEMP
directory…
Some people did that, but it was never put into the official release i think.
Nowadays MIDAS is not the Nr. 1 MusicInterface, today on WINDOWS it is BASS
and FMOD.
CU> —
Jeroen Janssen
Why go through all that trouble to keep people from extracting your datafiles?
(Personally I quite enjoy listening to demo music separately)
-JohnOn Friday 13 April 2001 14:11, you wrote:
“Jeroen Janssen” schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Torsten Giebl wrote:
It would be cool, if every Library for SDL had virtual Functions. With
virtual Functions i mean Functions that load Pictures, Wave Files …
from memory, instead of loading them from Disk. Lets go into the past
:=)
At the time MIDAS was the Nr. 1 SoundSystem, the most demopeople said:
“MIDAS is cool but, i have to save Modules as normal “.MOD” Files and
so everybody can rip them.Even if i encode them, at the End i have to
decode them to a TEMP- Directory before using them.”
As far as I remember this was not a restriction from MIDAS, I once wrote
a replacement for the MIDAS filehandling code that could read from a
compressed/encrypted datafile without needing to decode to a TEMP
directory…
–
Underfull \account (badness 10000) has occurred while \spend is active
John R. Hall - Student, Georgia Tech - Contractor, Loki Software
“John R. Hall” schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:0104131952221X.01111 at quark…
“Jeroen Janssen” schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3AD73BF8.A7EA70FA at darius.demon.nl…
Torsten Giebl wrote:
It would be cool, if every Library for SDL had virtual Functions. With
virtual Functions i mean Functions that load Pictures, Wave Files …
from memory, instead of loading them from Disk. Lets go into the past
:=)
At the time MIDAS was the Nr. 1 SoundSystem, the most demopeople said:
“MIDAS is cool but, i have to save Modules as normal “.MOD” Files and
so everybody can rip them.Even if i encode them, at the End i have to
decode them to a TEMP- Directory before using them.”
As far as I remember this was not a restriction from MIDAS, I once wrote
a replacement for the MIDAS filehandling code that could read from a
compressed/encrypted datafile without needing to decode to a TEMP
directory…
Why go through all that trouble to keep people from extracting your datafiles?
(Personally I quite enjoy listening to demo music separately)
ME TOO :=) but many democoders/gamecoders don?t like other people
ripping, stealing, using their grafix :=) When i worked hard to develop a
game, i don?t want that anybody else uses my grafix !!!> On Friday 13 April 2001 14:11, you wrote:
-John
–
Underfull \account (badness 10000) has occurred while \spend is active
John R. Hall - Student, Georgia Tech - Contractor, Loki Software
“John R. Hall” wrote:
As far as I remember this was not a restriction from MIDAS, I once wrote
a replacement for the MIDAS filehandling code that could read from a
compressed/encrypted datafile without needing to decode to a TEMP
directory…
Why go through all that trouble to keep people from extracting your datafiles?
(Personally I quite enjoy listening to demo music separately)
Well, it’s probably that having lots of seperate files (instead of a
zipfile) doesn’t look “professional” :)—
Jeroen Janssen
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“John R. Hall” wrote:
Why go through all that trouble to keep people from extracting your
datafiles?
(Personally I quite enjoy listening to demo music separately)
Well, it’s probably that having lots of seperate files (instead of a
zipfile) doesn’t look “professional” 
Lots of little files are slower and less space-efficient.–
Rainer Deyke (root at rainerdeyke.com)
Shareware computer games - http://rainerdeyke.com
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