From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:11:18 GMT
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"Steve Chalkley" <sjc AT conceptii DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> 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,

You have the latest Grabber if you have the latest Allegro WIP.
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/

> 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.

Grabber is simply a GUI version of dat that needs VESA support.
Using Grabber, it's easy to make games "skinnable" in the same way
that Winamp is skinnable. Heck, my game DOSArena even has
a skin browser.

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