From: "Steve Chalkley" <sjc AT conceptii DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: An Allegro/Grabber question
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:09:18 -0000
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In the guise of learning how to write games I have found several
Allegro/DJGPP games with source :-). Some of these come with .DAT files that
are clearly created using Allegro's Grabber utility. My question is, given
that I believe I've downloaded the latest Grabber, should I be able to load
these .DAT files and view the resources they contain? I've Grabber'ed a few
files of my own and these save/load fine. The Allegro /Dat utility is able
to extract individual resources like bitmaps with no problem. Also after
recompiling all the game source the calls to load_datafile(etc) all fly.

Confused


Steve Chalkley