Ztools 7/3.1 - 11/7/1998
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Author:
Mark Howell (howell_ma@movies.enet.dec.com)
Currently maintained by Matthew T. Russotto
(russotto@pond.com)
Contents:
readme.1st - this file
Makefile - Unix makefile
amiga.mak - Amiga Dice C makefile
aztec.mak - Amiga Aztec C makefile
mpwcw.mak - Macintosh Code Warrior C makefile
msc.mak - Microsoft Quick C makefile
vms.mak - VMS VAX C makefile
Makefile.djpp - DJGPP makefile
beos.mak - BeOS PowerPC and x86 Makefile
check.c - Sources
getopt.c
infinfo.c
infodump.c
inforead.c
pix2gif.c
showdict.c
showhead.c
showobj.c
showverb.c
txd.c
txio.c
pix2gif.h - Header files
tx.h
check.1 - nroff-format man pages.
infodump.1 Thanks to Neil Bowers (neilb@cre.canon.co.uk)
inforead.1 for providing these.
pix2gif.1
txd.1
Building:
Unix: make
BeOS: Makefile is beos.mak
DOS: nmake /F msc.mak
DOS (using DJGPP): Makefile is Makefile.djgpp
VMS: mms/desc=vms.mak
Amiga: makefile is amiga.mak for Dice C or aztec.mak for Aztec C
Macintosh (programmer's workshop): makefile is mpwcw.mak
Program dependencies:
check : check.c
infodump : infodump.c txio.c getopt.c showdict.c showhead.c
showobj.c showverb.c infinfo.c symbols.c tx.h
inforead : inforead.c
pix2gif : pix2gif.c pix2gif.h
txd : txd.c txio.c showverb.c infinfo.c symbols.c tx.h
inforead.c requires Microsoft C, Borland C, or DJGPP as it's only for a PC.
Bugs:
Please report bugs and portability bugs to the current maintainer.
Tools:
check - checks story file integrity, same as $verify command. Works on all
types except for V1, V2 and early V3 games which have no checksum
in the header. Optionally outputs a new story file of the correct
length.
usage: check story-file-name [new-story-file-name]
infodump - dumps header, object list, grammar and dictionary of a given
story file. Works on all types. Grammar doesn't work for V6
games yet.
usage: infodump [options...] story-file-name
inforead - converts IBM bootable disks to story files. Only for IBM PCs,
requires Microsoft C, Borland C, or DJGPP. Optional
parameters are the start track (defaults to 6) and the
drive number (0 for A: or 1 for B:).
usage: inforead story-file-name [start-track [drive#]]
pix2gif - converts IBM MG1/EG1/EG2 picture files from V6 games to
individual GIF files, viewable on most platforms.
usage: pix2gif picture-file-name
txd - disassembles story files to Z-code assembly language, plus text
strings. Works on all games from V1 to V8. Also supports Inform
assembler syntax.
usage: txd [options...] story-file-name
Notes for 7/3:
The major change for ZTools 7/3 is the addition of Inform symbols for
newer Inform games. Both infodump and txd support a "-s" option which
will enable the use of these symbols. I am not particularly happy with
the output format of the symbol-enabled dumps, so this may
very well change in the future. There is also some provision
for a "user" symbol table intended for helping decipher the
workings of games without symbols, but this should be
considered unfinished and undocumented in this release.
Having said that, here's a few examples of lines in a user symbol table
(not all of which work in this release, and all of which may change in
the future)
Global 0 location
Routine 0x5880 sparse
Attribute 0x1B vehicle
Property 13 treasure_value word
local 3 curaction sparse
Please note that this release changed the makefiles, and I
don't have all the systems there exist makefiles for, so don't
be too surprised if some Makefile changes are necessary to
make ZTools compile.