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Updated fork of Spatterlight
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Level 9 games not working? #11

Closed Dion-Guy closed 4 years ago

Dion-Guy commented 4 years ago

I'm trying to get Lancelot by Level 9 working (the DOS/Amiga/ST version), but Spatterlight doesn't seem to recognise the file format.

I have tried renaming GAMEDAT1.DAT to .sna and .l9 but regardless of the file extension it gives an error "Babel can not identify the file format". I know the files are ok because they work perfectly in Gargoyle - but I'd rather use Spatterlight!

angstsmurf commented 4 years ago

Hmm, the version detected as "Lancelot, pt. 1 (Amiga/PC USA)" seems to work for me here, with all three extensions. What does Gargoyle say about the game version? Where are the game files from?

Dion-Guy commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the fast reply. Gargoyle detects this version as: Lancelot, pt. 1 (Amiga/PC/ST)

I extracted the files from a Lancelot Amiga ADF file. I'm reluctant to post the game files publicly (or post a link as to where I got the ADF) but am happy to send them to you privately if that would be helpful?

angstsmurf commented 4 years ago

Sure, that would help. My address is on my Github profile page.

angstsmurf commented 4 years ago

Thanks!

Unlike Gargoyle, Spatterlight uses Babel to detect valid game files. Babel has not been updated since 2006 and appears to have incomplete detection of Level 9 games. The actual Level 9 interpreter has its own, superior, detection code. It should be possible transplant this to Babel, but it will take a bit of work.

Dion-Guy commented 4 years ago

Ah ok, thanks for investigating this. In the meantime I'll use the "Amiga/PC USA" version (which I assume is nigh on identical), but if at some point Spatterlight / Babel can support more variations of Level 9 games then that can only be a good thing.

angstsmurf commented 4 years ago

Fixed by 0c2ba71. Next I'd like to find out why it draws the images so small.